The Justice Department on Thursday released previously unseen documents from the Epstein files that include new summaries and notes from FBI interviews with a South Carolina woman who has made allegations about the drunken criminal and President Donald Trump, according to an NBC News analysis.
In a series of FBI interviews in 2019, the woman said she was a victim of sexual assault by Jeffrey Epstein. She also alleged that she was assaulted by Trump in the 1980s when she was between the ages of 13 and 15.
Recently released interviews detail these allegations. It also includes how the woman said her mother was humiliated by Epstein and that years after the disgraced financier’s alleged abuse, she received physical and verbal threats that she believed were directed by Epstein. She also told the FBI that Epstein “drove and/or flew her to New York or New Jersey” to a “very tall building with big rooms” where she said Trump sexually assaulted her, according to FBI interview summaries.
The woman first contacted law enforcement shortly after Epstein was arrested in 2019 with a lengthy description of how he molested her on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, when she was 13 in or about 1984, according to a summary of the FBI interview released by the Justice Department.
The FBI decided that the woman’s initial allegations against Epstein were serious enough that the FBI followed her up for three additional interviews. However, the fourth interview was cut short.
The newly released documents do not include information about whether agents considered the allegations credible or if they did additional work to confirm or refute the claims.
The Justice Department said in a statement Wednesday that it was working to “resolve victims’ concerns, correct personal information and any sexually suggestive images” and took 47,635 files online for review and redaction. The DOJ said it will be ready to produce them by the end of the week.
There is no evidence in the Wayback Machine online archive that the documents were posted on the DOJ website before Thursday.
NBC News first identified the missing interviews with a catalog of evidence in the case against Epstein’s convicted conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell that was released by the Department of Justice. A review of that log shows that more than 100 other files in the catalog remain unavailable on the DOJ website.
In the post dated Feb. 24 in X, the Department of Justice said, “All responsive documents are produced unless the document falls within the following categories: duplicates, privileges, or part of an ongoing federal investigation.”
On Thursday, when the missing files were posted on the DOJ website, the Department said in a statement to X that it “discovered that 15 documents were incorrectly labeled as duplicates.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Friday.
The White House spoke repeatedly in a Justice Department statement released in January when most of the Epstein files were released. That statement from the Department of Justice at the time said, “This production may contain false or fraudulently submitted photos, documents or videos, as everything sent to the FBI by the public was included in the production in accordance with the Act. Some of the documents contain false and sensational claims against President Trump that were sent to the FBI shortly before the 2020 election. To be clear, the claims are false and untrue, baseless and false, They are untrue and false. You are already armed against President Trump.”
Authorities have not accused Trump of any wrongdoing regarding Epstein.
The allegations against Trump have been discussed before. It was included in a 2025 document prepared by the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force that summarizes the claims in which Trump was mentioned, the National Threat Operations Center reported. Most of those claims were deemed unreliable or made by people who did not provide contact information.
It was also referenced, separately, in the FBI’s presentation summarizing Epstein’s case.
The woman filed a lawsuit against Epstein’s estate in 2019, according to court documents and DOJ documents. It ended in voluntary dismissal in 2021.
Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, previously said documents related to the woman were not included in an unredacted collection of files available for lawmakers to view at the Justice Department.
The Justice Department said in Thursday’s post that it “will also make available all files coded as duplicates in unaltered form for members of Congress to review in the Congressional Reading Room.”
The Epstein Files Transparency Act allows the DOJ to withhold records containing victim information, child sexual abuse materials, or information that could jeopardize an ongoing federal investigation or prosecution. However, it prohibits withholding documents “on the basis of embarrassment, defamation, or political sensitivity, including of any government official, public official, or foreign official.”
The release of the new documents comes a day after the Republican-led House Oversight Committee voted 24-19 to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about the DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files.
“We will end this White House cover-up,” Garcia wrote on X on Thursday.
