A trove of emails released this week has revealed that the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein once offered to provide a journalist with photographs purportedly showing Donald Trump socializing with young women at Epstein’s residence.
According to the correspondence, made public by the House Oversight Committee, Epstein reached out to a former New York Times reporter in December 2015. This contact followed the resurgence of a 2002 magazine profile in which Trump had praised Epstein as a “terrific guy” who enjoyed a vibrant social life. In the newly disclosed emails, Epstein specifically asked the reporter if he would be interested in images of Trump with “girls in bikinis” in Epstein’s kitchen, suggesting a specific individual was present.
The reporter expressed keen interest, but later stated that Epstein never actually supplied the photographs, leaving their existence unverified. In the same chain of messages, Epstein made a cryptic reference to an alleged incident where Trump was reportedly so distracted by women swimming in a pool that he nearly walked into a glass door.
These communications are surfacing years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction and subsequent death in jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. The emails also contain a separate assertion from Epstein to a former White House official in 2018, claiming he possessed damaging knowledge about Trump.
To date, Trump has not been formally accused of any criminal activity related to the Epstein case. He has previously dismissed the wider scandal as a fabrication. The release of these emails, however, adds a new dimension to the long-standing public curiosity about the nature of the relationship between the two men.
