Exclusive Review Reveals Missing FBI Documents Containing Explosive Allegations
Three previously unreleased FBI memorandums contain explicit but unsubstantiated claims that former President Donald Trump sexually abused a woman when she was a minor in the early 1980s with the assistance of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to an exclusive Guardian review of these sensitive documents.
Documents Withheld from Public Epstein Files Release
The Department of Justice failed to include these critical records when it uploaded millions of pages of files related to Epstein beginning in December. The existence of these missing documents was initially reported by independent journalist Roger Sollenberger and subsequently verified by NPR, generating significant outrage in Washington and prompting an immediate investigation from congressional Democrats.
The Guardian has obtained the missing FBI Form 302 reports, which memorialize 25 pages of detailed agents' notes from four separate interviews conducted during the summer and fall of 2019. These notes describe how the woman came forward to inform agents she recognized Epstein from a photograph sent by a childhood friend. Only the initial session, during which she did not name Trump, was included in the public release. The Guardian has made the ethical decision not to publish the woman's identity.
Unverified Claims and Contradictory Details
Her allegations remain unverified, and the FBI never pursued charges related to her claims, which at times appear extraordinary and contradictory to established facts about Epstein's life during the early 1980s. The millions of investigative documents released by the Department of Justice have contained both explosive allegations leading to resignations and arrests, as well as specious claims that have subsequently proven false.
Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein, stating emphatically last week: "I did nothing." An administration official has confirmed the authenticity of the three missing reports obtained by the Guardian.
Department of Justice Responds to Withholding Claims
The Department of Justice told NPR that "nothing has been deleted" and asserted that any withheld material was either duplicative or privileged, a claim echoed by an administration official to Breitbart, which has also reviewed the files. The three missing documents contain an expanded version of allegations that were summarized in an internal FBI slideshow about the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell investigations created in 2025.
"These non-credible accusations against President Trump made in 2019 were in the SDNY files and listed by reviewers as duplicative files, which are not legally required to be released by the Epstein Files Transparency Act as it was written by Congress," an administration official explained to the Guardian. "The Department of Justice is continuing its review of the duplicative files as we speak."
Detailed Allegations from FBI Interviews
According to the documents, the woman told agents she had been sexually abused by Epstein from approximately age 13, beginning around 1983 while living in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. She claimed that between ages 13 and 15, Epstein transported her to a building in either New York or New Jersey, traveling by either plane or automobile.
Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein's brother, informed the Guardian he had no knowledge of his brother spending summers on Hilton Head during the early 1980s. "I would have known," he stated during a phone interview. No evidence exists that Trump and Epstein knew each other in 1983, though Trump told New York magazine in 2002 that he had met Epstein approximately 15 years earlier.
Specific Claims About Trump's Alleged Actions
Once inside the New Jersey or New York building, she told investigators she was introduced to Trump and a group of their associates. According to the internal FBI notes, she claimed that when they were alone, Trump "mentioned something to the effect of: 'Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,'" before attempting to sexually assault her. She told agents she bit him, and that Trump then struck her and had her removed from the room.
She additionally claimed that Epstein and Trump discussed blackmailing people in her presence and that she overheard Trump talking about "washing money through casinos."
Additional Allegations and Investigative Context
The four interviews, conducted on July 24, August 7, August 22, and October 16 of 2019 at the Washington state law offices of her attorney, Barry Brandenburg, also include anecdotes extending beyond her interactions with Trump. Brandenburg did not respond to requests for comment.
She informed agents that Epstein provided her with alcoholic beverages during her early teenage years, which she suspected may have been spiked, offered her cocaine and marijuana, and forced her to perform oral sex on him.
The woman stated that Epstein "blackmailed her mother through explicit photographs of [her], which resulted in her mother embezzling from her real estate company to pay him. [She] stated that her mother 'tried to buy back the photos and secrets' over the years." She claimed her mother was sent to prison in South Carolina for embezzlement, and that Epstein and two other men "assisted" her mother in "fixing" her real-estate books to facilitate embezzlement and blackmail payments to Epstein.
The Guardian was unable to corroborate the account of her mother's prison term or criminal case, or verify if such events occurred.
Later Interviews and Declining Cooperation
The third interview primarily consists of the woman describing what she characterized as years of threats, including "four to five close calls" where she claimed she was nearly forced off roads in Oregon and Washington.
During the fourth and final interview in October 2019, she arrived without her attorney, who had attended all previous sessions, and declined a request for audio recording. When agents asked whether she felt comfortable elaborating on her contact with Trump, she questioned the purpose, given that "there was a strong possibility nothing could be done."
Background of the Accuser
The Guardian has identified a woman matching the biographical details in the FBI records. She has faced multiple fraud and theft charges in Washington and, in 2023, a felony charge for exploitation of an elderly person in Georgia. The resolution of these cases remains unclear.
In 2020, a Jane Doe joined a lawsuit against Epstein's estate with allegations and biographical details matching those in the FBI interviews. She later withdrew her claims, and it remains unknown whether she received any financial settlement. Her attorney in that case, Lisa Bloom, declined to comment.
Congressional Response and Investigation Demands
US Congressman Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, revealed he visited the Justice Department to examine unredacted files but could not locate them. Republican Oversight Committee Chair James Comer also stated lawmakers would investigate allegations that accusations of Trump assaulting a minor were removed from the Department of Justice's database.
"There is definitely, in my opinion, evidence of a cover-up happening," Garcia told NBC News following the initial reports. "The FBI clearly investigated, and now those documents are gone."
In a formal letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Garcia demanded "a full accounting" of why the files had been withheld, writing that the Department of Justice had "illegally withheld FBI interviews with a survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes."
