Updated March 6, 2026, 4:39 p.m. ET
The Department of Justice released FBI interviews with a woman who said she was introduced to Donald Trump by Jeffrey Epstein and that Trump sexually and physically abused her when she was a minor, accusations the White House called “completely baseless.”
The release came after multiple news reports about documents related to the accusations against Trump being withheld. The Department of Justice said it had withheld records that had been “incorrectly coded as duplicative.”
The woman, whose name has been redacted, said in a 2019 interview with the FBI that she traveled to New York or New Jersey with Epstein when she was between 13 and 15 years old and met Trump “in a very tall building with huge rooms,” according to a summary of one of the interviews. She stated multiple people were present and that Trump asked everyone to leave the room and then sexually assaulted her.
“These are completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement on March 6.
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in his associations with Epstein. He has not faced any charges related to the investigation.
The Miami Herald reported that the woman who accused Trump of sexual assault stopped cooperating. After the woman initially made the allegations, the FBI asked her in a subsequent interview if she'd be comfortable "detailing her contacts with Trump," and she "asked what the point would be of providing the information at this point in her life when there was a strong possibility nothing could be done about it," according to an interview summary.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act required the Justice Department to release all of the investigatory files it held related to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of sexually assaulting more than 1,000 women and girls. He died by suicide in custody while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
The records include uncorroborated allegations against a number of prominent individuals.
In one FBI interview from 2019 that was previously released, the woman described meeting a man she later identified as Epstein when she was around 13. She said her mother, who worked in real estate, put out an advertisement to "renters and owners" for babysitting services.
The woman said Epstein responded to the ad, and she met him at a residence where he gave her drugs and alcohol and sexually assaulted her. She said he assaulted her again on multiple occasions, according to the interview summaries.
Asked about the woman’s allegations and whether they led to further investigation, the Department of Justice shared a portion of a news release the agency put out in January when millions of Epstein records were released, which states, “Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election.”
“To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already,” the statement continues.
An NPR investigation found that 53 pages of records related to the accusations against Trump appeared to have been withheld by the DOJ. Even with the release of some records, 37 pages still are not included in the DOJ's database, NPR reported.
Contributing: Sarah Wire