Jun 06, 2025 3:41:10 pm
Jeffrey Epstein showed off photos of Donald Trump with “topless young women” sitting in his lap, the controversial author Michael Wolff has alleged.
The pedophile financier had about half a dozen pictures which showed Trump by the pool with multiple young women, Wolff claimed on his podcast, Fire & Fury, Thursday. They were taken in the “late ’90s” at Epstein’s Palm Beach home, where he victimized dozens of underage girls along with his procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, Wolff said.
Wolff alleged that they were in Epstein’s safe, which the FBI seized when they raided his homes in New York and Palm Beach in July 2019. The massive haul of evidence taken by the feds has never been made public—and while prosecutors disclosed after the raid that they had “hundreds of photos of girls and young women,” they have never offered any more details of them.
Wolff said of the photos, “They were with Trump at Epstein’s Palm Beach house sitting around the pool with these young girls, and the young girls are topless.
“And in some of the pictures, they’re sitting in his lap. I mean, and, and then there’s one I especially remember where there’s a stain, a telltale stain and on the front of Trump’s pants, and the girls are pointing at him and laughing.” Trump separated from his second wife Marla Maples in 1997 and began dating his third wife, Melania, in 1998.
Sources in the Trump camp claimed that he had severed his relationship with Epstein when he learned of allegations that he was a sex trafficker and pointed to his quote: “I was not a fan of Jeffrey Epstein. And you watched people yesterday saying that I threw him out of a club. I didn’t want anything to do with him. That was many, many years ago.”
Wolff described the photos as he revealed details of how Epstein was a key source for him while writing his best-selling book Fire & Fury, which rocked the Trump White House when it was published in 2018. Wolff said he had as much as 100 hours of tapes of Epstein talking about Trump and played a short snippet of one of the tapes in the podcast.
He also said he was prompted to speak after allegations this week by a former Miss Switzerland that Trump groped her, “grabbing and touching my body everywhere he could.”
Asked by the co-host of the podcast, journalist James Truman, “Where are these pictures?” Wolff suggested they may be among the items taken by the FBI, which worked for Trump’s attorney general, Bill Barr, at the time.
“You know, he would go and he would take them out of the safe. And then he would return them to the safe and I would say it’s likely that they would have been there when the FBI, Trump’s FBI at that point, not to put too fine a point on it, raided Epstein’s house and took the contents of the safe in 2019.”
In 2017, when Wolff was speaking to Epstein, the pedophile was living as a free man and socializing openly in New York and Florida. The tape appears to have been made in a restaurant.
But, said Wolff, he felt that Epstein was at the time living in fear of Trump, whose victory the pedophile had predicted the previous year.
“I couldn’t help but feeling that there was a level of personal fear there. So he’s having this conversation with me. And as I say, I’m writing Fire and Fury,” Wolff said.
“I‘m trying to figure out Donald Trump, but it‘s as confounding to me, of course, as it was to everybody. ’What? Who is this guy? How did this happen?’“
Wolff said Epstein’s level of fear “startled” him, and said, “I’ve spoken to several other people who knew Epstein well and yeah, you know, they make the same point. And I know that Epstein would emphasize how he believed Trump was capable of doing anything. He had no scruples.“
Claims that Epstein had compromising material on the rich and powerful with whom he associated have long swirled, especially since his death in a federal jail cell in August 2019, weeks after his arrest.
When Fire & Fury was published in January 2018 it attracted praise and bromides in equal measure and threats to sue by Trump, which never materialized.
Hugh Dougherty Thu, October 31, 2024 Daily Beast
ALARM BELLS: House Democrats have launched an investigation and are urging the Justice Department to immediately open its own probe after Elon Musk publicly claimed that President Donald Trump is named in the sealed files of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
“Elon Musk says Trump is in the Epstein files. That’s the real reason they haven’t been made public,” Musk posted Thursday on X. He followed it up by calling for Trump’s impeachment—a move even many Democrats have so far avoided.
The post set off alarm bells in Congress. Reps. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel demanding answers. “We ask that you immediately clarify whether this allegation is true,” they wrote in the letter, which was first reported by Axios.
Lynch and Garcia are senior Democrats on key House committees overseeing federal secrets and government transparency. They want a clear timeline for the release of all Epstein-related documents, an explanation for why no new files have been made public since February, and a detailed account of who is deciding what gets released.
They also want to know what role Trump may have played in reviewing the files. According to the letter, Musk’s claim “implies that the President may be involved in determining which files should be released and whether files will be withheld from the public if he personally chooses.”
Democrats say the secrecy around these documents, especially if it’s protecting a president, is unacceptable. “Any attempts to prevent the appropriate release of the Epstein files to shield the President from truth and accountability merits intense scrutiny by Congress and by the Department of Justice,” the lawmakers wrote.
Trump’s past ties to Epstein are well-documented. The two were photographed together multiple times in the 1990s and early 2000s and were known to socialize in elite circles. Though Trump has since distanced himself, speculation about his connection to Epstein has never fully gone away.
Back in February, Bondi’s office released over 100 pages from the Epstein case, claiming it was part of a broader push for transparency. But most of the documents were heavily redacted, raising more questions than answers. Even Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who leads the House task force on declassification, accused Bondi of “stonewalling” efforts to release more information.
“We agree with their conclusion that the release of these documents is long overdue,” Lynch and Garcia wrote, backing Luna’s demand for fuller disclosure.
Now, with Musk throwing gasoline on an already burning issue, Democrats want to know if Trump’s name is in those sealed files—and if that’s why the public still hasn’t seen them.
So far, the FBI has declined to comment on the matter. The White House and Department of Justice have not responded to requests for comment either. Daily Boulder.