A Jeffrey Epstein accuser once claimed former President Donald Trump allegedly had “sexual relations” with one of her unnamed friends at the late pedophile’s New York home “on regular occasions,” according to another trove of court documents unsealed Monday. The list also mentions former presidents Trump and Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and British business tycoon Richard Branson.
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Sarah Ransome, in a string of 2016 emails to then-New York Post columnist Maureen Callahan, also claimed that she had copies of tapes Epstein had made of some of his high-profile friends—Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and British business magnate Richard Branson—allegedly having sex with an unnamed woman.
“She confided in me about her casual ‘friendship’ with Donald. Mr. Trump seemed to have a thing for her and she told me how he kept going on about how he liked her ‘pert nipples,’” Ransome wrote about her friend in one email, which became public when the latest batch of newly unsealed documents was released.
“I also know she had sexual relations with Trump at Jeffery’s NY mansion on regular occasions,” she added.
Ransome retracted the salacious allegations in an email to Callahan on October 23, 2016, writing, “I would like to retract everything I have said to you and walk away from this,” according to the filing.
She also stated that going public would result in “only bad things” and “pain for my family.”
In a 2019 New Yorker article, Ransome admitted that she “invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein’s behavior.”
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In a statement issued Monday, Trump advisor Steven Cheung stated, “These baseless accusations have been fully retracted because they are simply false and have no merit.”
Angel Urena, Clinton’s representative, declined to comment on Monday.
A Virgin Group spokesperson told BreezyScroll in an email: “In a New Yorker report published in 2019, Ransome admitted that she had “invented” the tapes. We can confirm that Sarah Ransome’s claims are baseless.”
“In the fall of 2016, she suggested to the New York Post that she had sex tapes of half a dozen prominent people, including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump—but couldn’t provide the tapes when asked.
“Ransome told me that she had invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein’s behavior and to make him believe that she had “evidence that would come out if he harmed me.”
Ransome, who has lived abroad since at least 2017 and is now based in London, never produced the alleged sex tapes.
She did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.
The emails were filed in a since-settled defamation lawsuit case that Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, aka Virginia Roberts, had brought against the sicko’s madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2015.
The messages were revealed as former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz’s lawyers attempted to undermine Ransome’s claims, arguing that “she manifestly lacks credibility.”
Dershowitz, Epstein’s one-time lawyer, had been accused by Giuffre of sexually abusing her in a lawsuit she has since dropped admitting she “may have made a mistake.”
In a letter to the judge at the time, Dershowitz’ legal team had argued that if Ransome’s deposition were to be made public, her emails should, too, because, without the added context, her “unrebutted testimony would gravely prejudice [Dershowitz] by publishing deliberate lies calculated to harm his reputation.”
“The deposition transcript standing alone leaves an incomplete and, thus, a false impression of Ms. Ransome and her outrageous claims,” according to the letter.
“This court should not allow its power to enter and modify a protective order to be manipulated to authorize selective disclosure of de-contextualized materials. If the Ransome deposition is made public, the Emails must also be as well.”
The 17 documents—totaling 327 pages—released Monday add to the avalanche of information that has emerged in recent days detailing how the late pedophile leveraged his connections to the rich, powerful, and famous to recruit young girls and cover up his crimes.
In addition to high-profile names, the documents contain the accounts of some of Epstein’s teenage victims, as well as those who once worked for the late financier.
