Newly disclosed FBI interview summaries were initially misclassified as duplicates, with officials emphasizing the claims remain unverified
The United States Justice Department has released additional documents related to the investigation of financier Jeffrey Epstein, including previously withheld records that contain disputed allegations involving President
Donald Trump.
Officials said the documents were not included in earlier public releases because they had been mistakenly coded as duplicate records during the department’s review process.
After the error was identified, authorities reexamined the files and published the missing materials as part of the government’s continuing effort to disclose records linked to the Epstein investigation.
The newly released documents include summaries of Federal Bureau of Investigation interviews conducted in two thousand nineteen with an anonymous woman who claimed she had been sexually assaulted decades earlier by Epstein and had also alleged an attempted assault by Trump.
Investigators conducted multiple interviews as part of their effort to assess her account.
Authorities emphasized that the claims described in the interview notes remain uncorroborated and that no charges or federal cases were ever brought against Trump in connection with the allegation.
Trump and representatives of his administration have consistently and firmly denied the accusations, describing them as baseless and politically motivated.
The woman who made the claims reportedly declined to continue cooperating with investigators after initial interviews.
The release forms part of a much larger disclosure of government records connected to Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in federal custody in two thousand nineteen while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
The Justice Department has published millions of pages of documents under legislation requiring the public release of materials related to the case.
Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, federal authorities were instructed to make investigative records available to the public in searchable form while protecting victims’ identities and privileged legal information.
Since the law’s passage, the department has released large collections of investigative files, internal memoranda and interview summaries.
The latest disclosure also follows heightened scrutiny from lawmakers and oversight bodies questioning whether earlier document releases had omitted key records.
In response, the Justice Department conducted an internal review and said it identified several files that had been incorrectly categorized, leading to their initial exclusion from the public archive.
Officials insist the department has acted to ensure transparency and compliance with the law, noting the extraordinary scale of the material involved in the Epstein investigation.
Reviews of the broader archive have found extensive evidence related to Epstein and his convicted associate Ghislaine Maxwell, while investigators reported limited documentary proof linking other public figures to criminal charges.
The Justice Department says it will continue updating the public database if additional records are identified during ongoing archival reviews, as scrutiny of the Epstein investigation and its associated disclosures remains intense across the United States.