WASHINGTON – Revelations aboutPresident Donald Trump's travel, information about accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's injury before he died by suicide and a discussion about "co-conspirators" were among the latest batch of Epstein documents the Justice Department released Tuesday, Dec. 23.
Trump is mentioned repeatedly in the new documents, including as a passenger on Epstein's private plane for at least eight flights from 1993 to 1996.
Trump is one amongmany famous namesthat have appeared in the Epstein files. The president has not been accused of any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, a wealthy and well-connected financier who was charged with sex trafficking minor girls.
TheJustice Department saidthe latest records contain "untrue and sensationalist" accusations against Trump from before the 2020 election. "To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already," the department said.
Other documents mention 10 "co-conspirators,"which has led to demandsfor authorities to explain why those people weren't charged. So far, only Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell was charged and she is serving a 20-year prison term.
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Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump are shown in this image released by the Department of Justice on Dec. 23, 2025 as part ofa new trove of documentsfrom its investigations into the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Justice Department beganreleasing tens of thousands of Epstein documents Dec. 19from its files under a law Congress approved and Trump signed. Lawmakers and women who have claimed Epstein abused them have complained thatall the files weren't released immediately, as the law directed. The department says it is continuing to release documents as they are reviewed to ensure they don't name victims, portray sexual abuse or hurt potential prosecutions.
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DOJ says 'J. Epstein' letter to Larry Nassar is a fake
The Justice Departmentsaid in asocial media postthata letter signed "J. Epstein"and addressed to convicted sex offenderLarry Nassar, which was contained in the latest tranche of Epstein files released Tuesday, is a fake.
The department said the FBI determined the letter was fake because it was postmarked three days after Jeffrey Epstein's death out of Virginia, not New York, where Epstein was jailed when he died in 2019. The return address also listed the wrong jail "and did not include his inmate number, which is required for outgoing mail." Additionally, the "writing does not appear to match Jeffrey Epstein's," the department said.
Nassar is serving decades in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing young athletes on the U.S. Olympic team and at Michigan State University, as well as federal child pornography charges.
The letter was flagged to the FBI at the time it was received by the jail, the Justice Department said.
−Josh Meyer
Top Democrat demands investigation into 1996 FBI Epstein complaint
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee sent aletterTuesday asking the Justice Department's internal watchdog agency to investigate new revelations that Jeffrey Epstein's crimes werefirst reported to the FBI in 1996, almost a decade before an official police investigation was opened.
"For survivors like Maria Farmer, her family, and all the people Jeffrey Epstein abused in the decades that followed this unanswered complaint, this was not merely a missed investigative opportunity—it was a profound betrayal by their own government," Rep. Robert Garcia of California wrote in the letter addressed to William Blier, the Justice Department's acting inspector general.
It comes after a 1996 complaint filed by Maria Farmer, an Epstein victim, was made public as part of Tuesday's release of new documents in the Epstein case. In the complaint, Farmer accused Epstein of stealing pictures she took of her 12 and 16-year-old sisters and threatening to burn her house down if she told anyone about them.
An investigation would not be opened into Epstein's grooming and trafficking of young girls until 2005.
−Cybele Mayes-Osterman
New Epstein files put more scrutiny on former Prince Andrew
One of the thousands of pages of new documents released on Dec. 23 is a 2001email correspondence from a person using the alias "The Invisible Man,"who signs off as "A" while writing to Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell that "I am up here at Balmoral Summer Camp for the Royal Family."
"How's LA?" the email reads. "Have you found me some new inappropriate friends? Let me know when you are coming over as I am free from 25th August until 2nd Sept. and want to go somewhere hot and sunny with some fun people before having to put my nose firmly to the grindstone for the Fall. Any ideas gratefully received!"
Another 2002 email in the files shows "Gx" writing to another person that "I just gave Andrew your" phone number and asking this person to set him up on a trip to Peru. "Gx" says to expect a call from a "very English sounding gentleman" and asks the person to "show him a wonderful time" and "only introduce him to friends that you can trust and rely on to be friendly and discreet and fun." This email was forwarded by "Gx" to "The Invisible Man," who replied, "Got it I will ring him today if I can."
The files did not confirm whether "The Invisible Man" is the former Prince Andrew. In October, Buckingham Palace confirmed thatAndrew will no longer use his royal titlesafter years of scrutiny over his past friendship with Epstein.
−Brenden Morrow
What do the Epstein files show? See photos released by DOJ
DOJ mentioned Epstein 'co-conspirators'
Just days after Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in July 2019, federal agents wrote to each other about locating "10 co-conspirators" and serving them with subpoenas.
On July 9, an unnamed staffer referenced locating three in Florida, one in Boston, one in New York city and one in Connecticut. The identities of these co-conspirators is largely unknown, but other email threads reference Ghislaine Maxwell and an interview with Les Wexner, the billionaire behind Victoria's Secret and a longtime Epstein business partner.
Another thread references "Brunel," likely a reference to Jean-Luc Brunel, a French model scout tied to Epstein.
A third summary document references the 10 subpoenas, and notes two of the individuals are pilots. Lawrence "Larry" Visoski is depicted elsewhere in the files and was Epstein's longtime pilot.
In September,senators pressed FBI Director Kash Patelon whether anyone in the Epstein case files was part of a broader trafficking ring. Patel told Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., that no other cases could be made and that Epstein worked alone.
"There is no credible information. None. If there were, I would bring the case yesterday, that he trafficked to other individuals," Patel said at the oversight hearing.
Sen. Chuck Schumer on Tuesday seized on the documents mentioning the unnamed co-conspirators.
"Who are these 10 co-conspirators? Why haven't we seen those memos? Where are the grand jury records? Where are the FBI records? What are they hiding?" Schumer posted on X.
−Nick Penzenstadler
Documents in Epstein release contain 'untrue and sensationalist' accusations, DOJ says
The latest batch of 29,000 pages of documents from the Epstein files includes FBI reports that summarize calls the agency received without confirming whether any of the details or accusations were borne out.
In addition, authorities have redacted the names of people described as victims of sexual abuse, as Congress directed in approving the law compelling the release of all the Justice Department's Epstein documents.
TheJustice Department issued a statementTuesday morning saying the files contained "untrue and sensationalist" accusations against Trump before the 2020 election. Multiple reports contained in Tuesday's release documented allegations made against Trump that were reported to the FBI's National Threat Operations Center in October 2020. Trump has not been charged with any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.
"To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already," the Justice Department said in its statement, without specifying which claims it was referring to.
−Bart Jansen
Prosecutors describe challenges organizing Epstein evidence
Federal prosecutors describe the same problems searching through electronic documents in the Epstein case as casual observers have found rummaging through the records the Justice Department released.
An email exchangeunder the subject line "Epstein search warrant documents" from March 2020 described the challenges of organizing the evidence from electronic devices the FBI had seized.
One prosecutor described "very significant problems" in their attempts to organize 1 million documents. Emails and attachments weren't linked together, the prosecutor wrote, and files were given different numbers in different places, making them harder to track down. Some files were too large to open, so "there are many files that are completely invisible to us," they wrote.
"Notwithstanding their many promises to us about quick and effective processing of the 60+ devices they seized, the FBI is completely (expletive) us on this," one email in the exchange said.
Likewise, lawmakers and women who have accused Epstein of abusing themhave complained about the problemssearching the documents the department has released to the public.
−Bart Jansen
Police report describes potential witness intimidation in Epstein case
One of the documents from the 2019 federal case against Epstein describes what police called potential witness intimidation during a Florida investigation in 2006.
Palm Beach County police reportedthat a woman whose name was redacted and who had accused Epstein of abusing her received calls lasting 8 minutes, 14 minutes and 12 minutes within an hour of each other on March 7, 2006. The name of the person who allegedly made the call was also redacted.
The report doesn't mention was said during the calls. But the officer who filled out the form said the call records "were consistent with what the victim had described to me on the date of the intimidation."
Calls from the same number were also made to "Epstein's assistant" and to a corporation in New York affiliated with Epstein, according to the police report.
Epstein eventually pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution in 2008, but federal prosecutors agreed not to charge him at that time.
−Bart Jansen
Psychologist at Epstein's jail questioned unsuccessfulsuicide attempt
The chief psychologist at the jail where Jeffrey Epstein died said it was unknown if an unsuccessful suicide attempt he made weeks before his death was "a ploy, if someone else did it," or if he gave himself "rug burn" to get attention.
In email exchange released by the Justice Department in the newest batch of Epstein files, the chief psychologist at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Epstein was imprisoned in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, wrote, "We don't know if it was a ploy, if someone else did it, or he just gave himself a 'rug burn' with the sheet to call attention to his situation."
The psychologist sent the information in response to an email from a redacted address, which said: "Can you send me notes on Epstein on his suicide attempt."
Jail officers who responded to Epstein's cell on July 23, 2019, found him with an orange cloth around his neck, and his cellmate said he had attempted to hang himself, according to a 2023Department of Justice report. Weeks later on Aug. 10, 2019, he was found dead hanging in his cell.
−Cybele Mayes-Osterman
Federal prosecutors subpoenaed evidence from Mar-a-Lago in 2021
Federal prosecutors in New York senta subpoena to Trump's Mar-a-Lago Clubon Oct. 5, 2021, to provide testimony and evidence in the criminal case against Epstein's associate, Ghislaine Maxwell.
The subpoena from U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss sought any employment records relating to a person whose name was redacted.
Trump, who hadsocialized with Epsteinin the 1990s and early 2000s,has said Epstein "stole" female staffersaway from Mar-a-Lago to work for him.
Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's most outspoken victimswho died by suicide in April, said Maxwell recruited her when she was a 16-year-old to be a Mar-a-Lago locker room assistant.
Maxwell was convicted of conspiring with Epstein to entice girls to travel for illicit sex and is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
−Bart Jansen
Trump accused of rape in report DOJ calls 'unfounded and false'
The latest batch of documents includedan FBI report from Oct. 27, 2020, about a call to the National Threat Operations Center in which a man accused Trump and Epstein of raping a woman he knew.
The man said he met Trump as his limousine driver in 1995. On Dec. 24, 1999, the man was discussing that experience with a woman who turned "stone cold" at the mention of Trump's name.
"Donald J. Trump had raped me along with Jeffrey Epstein," the man quoted the woman as saying.
When the man urged the woman to call the police, the woman said: "I can't they will kill me."
The FBI report redacted the names of the man who made the call and the staffer at the National Threat Operations Center who received it.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing and hasn't been charged with any crime in relation to Epstein. TheJustice Department issued a statementTuesday saying the latest release of files contained "untrue and sensationalist" accusations made against Trump before the 2020 election.
"To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already," the Justice Department said in its statement.
−Bart Jansen
Email: Trump on Epstein's jet 'many more times' than previously reported
PresidentDonald Trumpwas on Jeffrey Epstein's private jet "many more times than previously has been reported," according to an email sent by an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York released in a new batch of Epstein files on Dec. 23.
"For your situational awareness, wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware), including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case," the email reads, referring toGhislaine Maxwell, Epstein's former girlfriendwho was also convicted of sex crimes. The names and addresses of the sender and recipients of the email are redacted.
Trump was "listed as a passenger" on Epstein's jet on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, the assistant U.S. attorney wrote. Trump's ex-wife, Marla Maples, his daughter Tiffany and his son Eric also traveled on the jet, according to the email. On two flights, two of the passengers "were women who would be possible witnesses in a Maxwell case."
−Cybele Mayes-Osterman
See inside infamous Epstein island Caribbean estate in released photos
Justice Department releases new picture of Trump and Maxwell
The Justice Department released an undated picture of President Donald Trump withGhislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriendwho was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for grooming and abusing young girls.
In the picture, a younger Trump wears a suit and red tie as he sits beside Maxwell. Three people whose faces are not visible sit behind them. It is not clear when or where the photo was taken.
−Cybele Mayes-Osterman
Details of 2008 Epstein deal still shrouded
Epstein researchers interested in more details on howa 2008 non-prosecution agreementwith federal prosecutors in Florida came together will be disappointed in the newly released documents so far.
Department of Justice officials released scant email threads from the negotiations with Florida prosecutors asking for feedback on the work release provisions for Epstein. The emails redact names of prosecutors under U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, who was copied on the emails.
Epstein's attorney, Roy Black, wrote prosecutors that Epstein was in compliance with the rules and even argued that his work release treated him "more harshly" than others since he was wearing a GPS device.
The controversial agreement meant Epstein avoided federal charges for sex trafficking underage girls by pleading guilty to lesser state charges. He then served only 13 months in jail with work release.
−Nick Penzenstadler
'Significant breakdown' at jail where Epstein died
The latest release included an 18-page "after action review" that offers a detailed account of Epstein's death and described a "significant breakdown in basic correctional practices and communication within the institution." Epstein was found dead Aug. 10, 2019, in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking. His death wasdetermined to be a suicide.
Also included:An email from June 14, 2021mentioning that Steve Bannon, a former political adviser to Trump and now a podcaster, had a picture on his phone of Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell. The sender and recipient of the email were redacted.
Previous Epstein files takeaways:Vaginal cream, celebs and redacted photos
Trump downplayed the importance of the Epstein files to reporters during an Dec. 22 press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida where the president is spending the Christmas holiday. Trump said many pictures of "respected bankers and lawyers" would be released because "everybody was friendly with this guy" before Epstein was indicted federally.
"What this whole thing is with Epstein is a way of trying to deflect from the tremendous success that the Republican Party has," Trump said.
Trump calls release of pictures of people socializing with Epstein 'terrible'
Trump told reporters that he thought it was "terrible" pictures of people were being released in the Epstein files without any accusations of wrongdoing, but that congressional Democrats and some Republicans forced the release of the files.
"There are lot of people that are angry about all of the pictures of other people,"Trump told reporters Dec. 22. "I think it's terrible."
Trump and former President Bill Clinton were among the many famous nameswho were once friendly with Epsteinand appeared in photos with him. Neither has been accused of any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, who was charged with sex trafficking.
"Everybody was friendly with this guy, either friendly or not friendly, but they, you know, he was around, he was all over Palm Beach and other places," Trump said.
−Bart Jansen
Contributing: Reuters
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