Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein: New House Report Details Sexual-Assault Allegations

House Judiciary Committee Democrats released a new staff report on October 26, 2026, examining Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein through accounts concerning 11 women. The report says five directly accused Trump of rape or sexual assault in Epstein’s company or presence, and calls for an independent special counsel. It includes expanded details from Beatrice Keul’s interviews with committee staff about an alleged November 1993 rape at the Plaza Hotel. The White House denied the allegations.

Beatrice Keul: Plaza Hotel, November 1993

Keul, then 24, told committee staff that she met Trump and Epstein at the American Dream Pageant at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan in November 1993. She said Trump offered assistance with a visa and admission to New York University; Epstein separately invited her to a Mar-a-Lago party and offered to cover travel and lodging.

Keul said a Trump representative later escorted her to a hotel suite, where Trump grabbed her from behind and raped her, tearing her dress and causing bleeding and bruising. She said he then repeated the visa and education offers and pressed her to remain silent. She returned to Switzerland, declined another pageant invitation and rejected a later telephone offer from Trump. Footnote 49 identifies the account as based on several weeks of discussions with committee staff and explains that her earlier public description was less detailed. The alleged assault is located at the hotel; the report does not identify a particular suite.

Stacey Williams: Trump Tower, 1993

Williams said she accompanied Epstein to Trump’s office in Trump Tower in 1993, after meeting Epstein at a Trump-hosted Christmas party at the Plaza in 1992. She alleged Trump touched her breasts, buttocks and hips while he and Epstein continued talking and smiling. She said Epstein berated her afterward for allowing the touching.

The report cites CNN’s interviews with three women who said Williams had told them about the incident in 2006, 2015 and 2018. It also describes a later postcard from Trump showing Mar-a-Lago. The source record identifies Trump Tower as the alleged assault site; the Plaza party and later postcard are separate events. Trump’s campaign previously denied Williams’s allegation.

Jill Harth: Mar-a-Lago, 1993

Harth’s 1997 civil complaint alleged that Trump removed her from a public gathering at Mar-a-Lago, forced her into a bedroom, kissed and fondled her against her will, and restrained her despite her protests. The report’s detailed account dates the gathering to 1993; its executive summary gives 1994. Harth’s former spouse told reporters that Trump and Epstein appeared to be the only men at the gathering.

The report discusses the resolution of Harth’s lawsuit alongside a separate business dispute. The complaint is an allegation, rather than a judicial finding that the assault occurred. Mar-a-Lago is the documented property reference; no bedroom location is mapped.

“Katie Johnson”: alleged New York assaults, 1994

The report revisits the pseudonymous 2016 plaintiff’s allegation that Trump and Epstein repeatedly sexually assaulted and raped her at Epstein-hosted gatherings in New York in 1994, when she was 13. It reproduces an FBI complaint-form excerpt describing escalating abuse, physical violence and threats against disclosure, and identifies EFTA01683592 as the source.

The report also cites FBI case references and committee whistleblower information concerning documents it says have been withheld. Its footnotes record that the 2016 lawsuit was withdrawn. The allegation is retained under the published pseudonym; an internal FBI case association is not a criminal charge or verdict. The report does not establish a particular 1994 residence, so this account uses a New York City area reference rather than the later Manhattan townhouse.

“Jane”: introduction at Mar-a-Lago, 1994

The report cites EFTA01660639 and EFTA01660637 for Jane’s account that Epstein introduced her to Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 1994, when she was 14. Jane later testified as a government witness at Maxwell’s criminal trial. Her reported introduction to Trump is separate from her testimony describing abuse by Epstein and Maxwell.

The report links this account to the later handling of Maxwell’s DOJ interview. The Mar-a-Lago introduction is not described here as a rape allegation against Trump.

Maria Farmer: Epstein’s New York office

Farmer described waiting at Epstein’s New York office when Trump approached and stood over her. She said Epstein intervened and that she overheard Trump say he thought she was 16, although she was in her twenties. Farmer described the encounter as predatory; the account does not describe a completed sexual assault by Trump.

The report says Farmer reported Epstein’s abuse to the FBI in 1996 and again in 2006, raising concerns about Trump. It alleges missing federal records concerning those reports. The office encounter is kept at a New York City area reference because this report does not establish the premises for that particular event.

“Kate”: New York introduction and Florida travel

The report cites Kate’s FBI interview, EFTA00158676, in which she said Maxwell presented her to Trump at a New York party, encouraged the introduction and later brought her to Mar-a-Lago, where she toured the property with Trump, Epstein and Maxwell present. It also cites a December 15, 2020 prosecutor email, EFTA00158675, summarizing her lawyer’s statement that Maxwell set her up on a date with Trump.

The report describes later travel to Florida and accommodation in a Trump property. Kate described Maxwell’s introduction as resembling how Maxwell had trafficked her to Epstein. The report expressly says Kate did not explicitly allege misconduct by Trump. Her accounts of abuse by Epstein at his other properties remain attributed to Epstein; they are not reassigned to Trump.

“Jane Doe 4”: anonymous 1980s allegation

The report describes a woman interviewed by the FBI in 2019 who alleged abuse by Epstein beginning when she was 13 in the 1980s and separately accused Trump of a forced sexual act followed by physical violence. It reproduces a third-party FBI tip concerning her allegations and discusses later interview records.

The committee states it has not independently verified her claim against Trump. The report’s executive summary places the Trump encounter in New York, while its reproduced tip says New Jersey; South Carolina concerns the account of earlier abuse by Epstein. These locations are not treated as interchangeable. This allegation has no precise map marker pending source reconciliation.

A location follow-up checked October 27 adds that ABC News and Reuters, reporting on her second FBI interview, say she herself recalled the Trump encounter as occurring in either New York or New Jersey. The third-party tip’s New Jersey wording is more specific than that recollection. Neither publication establishes a city or building. The original DOJ record identified by Reuters is EFTA02858481. The incident therefore remains geographically unresolved between the two states.

Lauren Petrella: Harth’s Mar-a-Lago account

The report cites Harth’s 1997 complaint alleging that Trump entered model Lauren Petrella’s bedroom uninvited in the early hours of the same Mar-a-Lago gathering and groped her. This is Harth’s account concerning Petrella, rather than a new first-person accusation obtained from Petrella.

It also cites HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031604, a 2015 email in which Epstein supplied Petrella’s contact information to a reporter and referred to an earlier photograph. The email is correspondence about their shared social circle; the allegation’s location comes from Harth’s complaint.

“Jane Doe 5”: photographs, relationships and birthday-book reference

The report describes a young Scandinavian college student photographed with Epstein and later with Trump, flight records and a birthday-book entry referring to a supposed sale to Trump. It also cites EFTA00839258 and HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031457 for Epstein’s later descriptions of the relationship.

The report states that this woman has not come forward as a survivor and that it has no evidence she experienced misconduct by either man. The birthday-book wording is retained as an attributed statement in the document, not proof of a literal purchase or trafficking transaction. No sexual-assault location is assigned to her.

“Jane Doe 6”: accommodation and travel records

The report discusses a Russian model who moved into a Trump property, appeared in pageant reporting and later traveled on Epstein’s aircraft with Maxwell and Prince Andrew. It bases this section on earlier public reporting.

The woman has not come forward as a survivor in this report. Housing, pageant participation and flight records are kept separate from assault allegations, and no sexual-assault location is assigned to her.

Modeling agencies, pageants and promises of education

The report places the women’s accounts within the New York and Palm Beach modeling and pageant businesses of the 1990s. It discusses Trump’s pageants, Elite Model Management founder John Casablancas, modeling agent Paolo Zampolli and Epstein’s recruitment of young women. It compares promises of visas, tuition, travel and professional opportunities reported by different women. The staff’s interpretation of a coordinated operation is attributed to the committee; each underlying account retains its own source and date.

DOJ records and Maxwell’s interview

The report alleges that DOJ withheld or over-redacted evidence and ended investigations into Epstein’s possible accomplices. It cites Maxwell’s July 2025 interview as an example, arguing that Todd Blanche redirected her when she raised Jane. The original DOJ Day 2 transcript records those exchanges at printed pages 292–293 and 300. It also records Maxwell disputing Jane’s account.

The committee characterizes the handling of the interview as potential witness tampering and obstruction under 18 USC 1512 and 1505. That is the staff’s legal allegation. The interview transcript is the source for the words spoken; it is not a court finding concerning their purpose.

The request for an independent special counsel

Judiciary Democrats call for an independent special counsel to investigate Trump, Epstein’s potential accomplices and the alleged handling of evidence by DOJ, and to support state and foreign investigations. Their report cites 28 CFR 600.1 and argues that DOJ’s relationship with the president presents a conflict. The regulation conditions appointment on the Attorney General’s determination that criminal investigation is warranted, a departmental conflict or extraordinary circumstances exists, and an outside counsel would serve the public interest.

The Attorney General, or in cases in which the Attorney General is recused, the Acting Attorney General, will appoint a Special Counsel when he or she determines that criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted and— (a) That investigation or prosecution of that person or matter by a United States Attorney’s Office or litigating Division of the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances; and (b) That under the circumstances, it would be in the public interest to appoint an outside Special Counsel to assume responsibility for the matter.

Judiciary Democrats invoke this regulation in seeking an outside special counsel. The stated conflict is their legal argument; the report is not an adjudication of a violation.

The White House response

White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis told Spectrum News on October 26 that the allegations were false and characterized the report as politically motivated. She said Trump had removed Epstein from Mar-a-Lago and had been exonerated. The committee’s report disputes Trump’s descriptions of the friendship and expulsion, citing flight records, correspondence and witness accounts. These statements are attributed to their respective speakers.

Related Reports

Sources

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  11. DOJ: released FBI interview summary EFTA02858481 (age verification required)
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