Epstein Files: South Carolina woman accused Trump, Epstein of sexual abuse in 1980s, FBI records show

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Newly released Epstein files include a document detailing allegations made by a woman who lived in South Carolina as a teenager against Jeffrey Epstein and now-President Donald Trump.

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What the woman told the FBI

In a 2019 interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the unidentified woman told investigators the abuse occurred when she was between 13 and 15 years old, during the 1980s. She said she was sexually abused by Epstein and other men he brought around.

The woman also told investigators she attended a Rick James concert in Savannah, where she encountered Epstein. She said he got her drunk and left her there alone.

She told the FBI that Epstein later flew her to either New York or New Jersey, where he introduced her to Trump. She said she was left alone in a room with Trump, who tried to force her to perform oral sex on him. She said she refused, and Trump hit her and demanded she be taken away.

The statements the woman made to the FBI match allegations made by an unidentified woman in a 2019 lawsuit against Epstein’s estate.

The lawsuit, which identifies the woman as Jane Doe 4, alleges she met Epstein on Hilton Head Island around 1984. Epstein had allegedly rented a vacation home from the woman’s mother, identified as a Hilton Head real estate agent.

The lawsuit then alleges Epstein hired the woman, then a 13-year-old girl, to babysit, but when she arrived, she found no children. The lawsuit says Epstein “immediately offered” her “alcohol and drugs,” then raped her “for the first time” later that night.

Sexual abuse by Epstein went on for the next several year, the lawsuit claims. It also says on several occasions, Epstein flew the girl to New York City and brought her to “intimate gatherings with other prominent, wealthy men.” The girl was abused by these, and on one occasions “one of these prominent men forcibly slapped [her] in the face after she was forced to perform oral sex on him.”

In a statement to WTOC, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the accusations baseless.

“These are completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence, from a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history. The total baselessness of these accusations is also supported by the obvious fact that Joe Biden’s Department of Justice knew about them for four years and did nothing with them — because they knew President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong. As we have said countless times, President Trump has been totally exonerated by the release of the Epstein Files,” Leavitt said.

The woman voluntarily dismissed her claims in 2021. It’s unclear whether the claims were settled out of court.

Allegations involving the victim’s mother

The woman also told investigators that Epstein was blackmailing her mother, a realtor, with underage photos of the victim. She said her mother embezzled real estate money to pay Epstein, but at some point had a falling out with one of his associates. Epstein then reportedly turned the mother in to the Real Estate Commission, and she served several years in a South Carolina federal prison.