By SW Newsmagazine Investigations Desk
EDITORIAL NOTE: The allegations described in this article are uncorroborated claims recorded during FBI interviews and complaint logs. No law enforcement investigation has substantiated these allegations, and no individual named herein has faced any charges. The White House and DOJ have characterized the accusations against President Trump as false. SW Newsmagazine reports on the contents of these public government records in the public interest.
The Justice Department on Thursday published a batch of previously unreleased documents from its Epstein file database, including three FBI interview summaries that news organizations had identified as missing from the public record. The newly released files center on a woman from South Carolina who, during a series of 2019 interviews with federal agents, alleged she was sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein—and by President Donald Trump—when she was between 13 and 15 years old. Trump has denied any wrongdoing, and the White House has forcefully rejected the allegations as false.
The release came after reporters and Democratic lawmakers flagged an apparent discrepancy in the public database. NBC News identified the missing interview records by cross-referencing the DOJ’s document release against an evidence catalog from the federal prosecution of Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. That catalog contained descriptions of four FBI interview summaries with the woman; only one had previously appeared in the publicly accessible files. Following inquiries from multiple outlets and congressional pressure, the Justice Department acknowledged the gap.
In a statement posted to social media Thursday, the department said that after reviewing materials with similar coding, it had “discovered 15 documents were incorrectly coded as duplicative” and subsequently published them. The newly released files add 16 pages to the public record, comprising three FBI 302 reports from interviews conducted between July and October 2019 and a two-page intake form documenting the initial tip relayed to agents by a friend of the woman.
WHAT THE NEWLY RELEASED FILES DESCRIBE
According to the FBI 302 reports, agents interviewed the woman four times as they sought to evaluate her account. In her first interview, her allegations focused on Epstein. In the second, she expanded her account to include Trump, telling investigators that Epstein had driven or flown her to either New York or New Jersey, where she said she was introduced to Trump at what she described as a very tall building with large rooms. She alleged Trump attempted to force her to perform a sex act and that she bit him. She told agents she was between 13 and 15 years old at the time.
The woman also described a broader pattern of coercion and intimidation. She told the FBI that Epstein had arranged to have her mother sent to prison, that she had been physically beaten, and that over the years following the alleged abuse, she and people close to her received threatening calls she believed were connected to Epstein. FBI records indicate agents stopped interviewing her in 2019, the same year Trump was in his first term as president.
In her final recorded interview, the woman was asked whether she would be willing to provide additional information about Trump. An agent noted in the report that 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.”
The woman filed a civil lawsuit against Epstein’s estate in 2019, which ended in a voluntary dismissal in 2021. There is no indication in the released records that she was ever called before a grand jury or that prosecutors recommended any charges stemming from her allegations against Trump.
Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown, who broke much of the original Epstein investigative reporting, reported Thursday that DOJ officials who dealt directly with the woman assessed her as credible, noting that the bureau’s willingness to conduct four separate interviews was itself significant. The allegations remain uncorroborated by physical evidence or corroborating testimony in the public record.
WHITE HOUSE AND DOJ RESPONSE
The White House was unequivocal in its rejection of the allegations. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a statement calling them “completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence, from a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history. ” Leavitt also pointed to the Biden-era Justice Department’s handling of the matter, arguing that its inaction over four years demonstrated the claims had no merit.
The Justice Department’s earlier January release of over 3.5 million pages of Epstein-related materials included its caveat, stating that the production “may include fake or falsely submitted images, documents, or videos” and noting that some files contained “untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election.”
“We are witnessing a White House cover-up of serious allegations against the president by a survivor,” said Rep. Robert Garcia of California
CONGRESSIONAL FALLOUT AND MISSING DOCUMENTS
The file release lands in the middle of an escalating congressional dispute over the DOJ’s management of the Epstein document disclosure. On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi, demanding she testify under oath—a notable development given that five Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the measure.
“We see no criminal involvement or reason to believe the president has done anything wrong,” said one Florida Republican member.
Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the committee, said prior to Thursday’s release, “We are witnessing a White House cover-up of serious allegations against the president by a survivor.” Republicans on the committee have maintained they see no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Trump. “We see no criminal involvement or reason to believe the president has done anything wrong,” said one Florida Republican member.
Reporters tracking the document release say the gaps in the public record are not resolved by Thursday’s update. Independent journalist Roger Sollenberger noted that at least 37 pages of records related to the woman’s case remain absent from the public database—including notes from the FBI interviews, a law enforcement report, and license records.
MORE FROM THE COMPLAINT LOGS: A PATTERN OF ALLEGATIONS, A PATTERN OF INACTION
One complainant, identified in prior FBI contact records as “Thomas,” told agents she had been taken by boat to Epstein’s private island.
Beyond the newly released FBI 302 reports, the DOJ’s broader Epstein file database contains a complaint summary table that Scope Weekly has reviewed in full. Among the entries is a complaint that illustrates the disorienting and fragmented nature of many of the accounts logged by the bureau—and the bureau’s documented failure to follow up on them.
One complainant, identified in prior FBI contact records as “Thomas,” told agents she had been taken by boat to Epstein’s private island. She described the situation as “complicated” and said it involved both Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The woman, who went on to become a school counselor, described attending a meeting with her school principal—identified in the complaint log as Linda Kitts—and a police officer, during which she was allegedly shown photographs of herself with Epstein. She reported the school was hostile toward her for not being “a Trump person,” and that the school pressured her to testify against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. She further alleged that the FBI and Donald Trump were on the phone during that meeting. She also said she believes the FBI possesses childhood photographs of her with Epstein.
The FBI’s response notation for this entry is stark: “no contact made—previous TIPS indicated Thomas had called in and said she had chemically induced amnesia and struggled with knowing what was a dream and what was reality. ” The disposition column reads simply: None.
Another entry in the same table describes a secondhand account of an alleged assault at Trump Plaza in 1987. A caller told the FBI that a friend—referred to in the document as Victim 1—was out drinking when she ended up at Trump Plaza, saw Donald Trump, and was approached by an unknown man who offered to introduce her. The man gave Victim 1 a drink. She woke up naked and sore, with $300 left on the bed, and no memory of how she got to the room. She recalled only “a flash” of Trump’s face. She called the original complainant and said she believed she had been raped. She did not seek a rape kit, the complaint notes, because she did not believe anyone would take her seriously—particularly given that she had been drinking.
The account grows darker from there. Victim 1’s husband subsequently experienced serious business problems with suppliers, which she attributed to Trump’s influence, suggesting that the political climate may have affected their business dealings and contributed to their personal struggles. The complaint does not record the identity of the married lawyer with whom she began a relationship. After a fight with that lawyer, she went to a bar and left with a man who seemed familiar with her but whom no one else in the bar recognized. Victim 1 was never seen again. A few years later, human remains were discovered consistent with her description, but DNA testing at the time was inconclusive.
The FBI’s response to this complaint is not visible in the reviewed portion of the record.
A QUESTION THE FILES FORCE US TO ASK
Scope Weekly has now reviewed well over a hundred complaints logged in the DOJ’s Epstein database. Across that body of records, a pattern has become impossible to ignore: complaint after complaint—detailing rape, trafficking, coercion, and, in at least one case, a woman who subsequently disappeared—has resulted in no further documented investigation. The dispositions read, with numbing regularity: no contact made. Deemed not credible. Voicemails left, no response received. None.
What does it take for a victim to be taken seriously?
This raises questions that the documents themselves cannot answer—but that the documents demand be asked. What threshold must a complainant clear before the bureau pursues an account? How many individuals, describing overlapping locations, overlapping names, and overlapping methods of coercion, must come forward before a pattern is deemed worthy of formal investigation? And perhaps most pointedly: does the identity of the accused—including, in this case, the sitting President of the United States—alter the calculus of whether a complaint receives serious scrutiny?
These are not rhetorical questions. They are the central accountability questions of this document release, and they have not been answered by any public official. The DOJ has stated that all legally releasable materials have been produced. The White House maintains the president has been “totally exonerated.” But exoneration by non-investigation is not the same as exoneration by inquiry. The files do not show that these complaints were investigated and found lacking. In case after case, they show that these complaints were barely looked at at all.
Everyone is subject to scrutiny in a functioning justice system, including governors, billionaires, and presidents. The volume and consistency of these complaints does not establish guilt. But it does establish an obligation: the obligation to look. Whether that obligation has been met is a question these documents, taken together, raise with uncomfortable force.
CONTEXT: THE EPSTEIN FILES TRANSPARENCY ACT
The document releases stem from the Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law by President Trump on November 19, 2025, which compelled the Justice Department to release all materials in its possession related to Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days. Combined with prior releases, the total production now stands at nearly 3.5 million pages, drawn from the Florida and New York cases against Epstein, the prosecution of Maxwell, investigations into Epstein’s 2019 death, and multiple FBI investigations.
Epstein died in a Manhattan federal detention facility in August 2019 in a ruling the medical examiner classified as suicide, though the circumstances have remained a source of public controversy. Maxwell was convicted in December 2021 on federal sex trafficking charges and is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.
Scope Weekly will continue to report on the Epstein document release as new records become available. The full public database can be accessed at justice.gov/epstein.
This article is based on the SW Newsmagazine reviewing hundreds of documents filed at https://www.justice.gov/epstein/ and reporting from NBC News, NPR, CBS News, ABC News, Al Jazeera, PBS NewsHour, and The Miami Herald, as well as documents published in the DOJ Epstein Library. All allegations described herein are uncorroborated claims made to the FBI. The FBI has not charged any individual named in this article with any related offenses. President Trump denies all wrongdoing.
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