Jeffrey Epstein showed off photos of Donald Trump with âtopless young womenâ sitting in his lap, the controversial author Michael Wolff has alleged.
The pedophile financier had about half a dozen pictures which showed Trump by the pool with multiple young women, Wolff claimed on his podcast, Fire & Fury, Thursday. They were taken in the âlate â90sâ at Epsteinâs Palm Beach home, where he victimized dozens of underage girls along with his procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, Wolff said.
Wolff alleged that they were in Epsteinâs safe, which the FBI seized when they raided his homes in New York and Palm Beach in July 2019. The massive haul of evidence taken by the feds has never been made publicâand while prosecutors disclosed after the raid that they had âhundreds of photos of girls and young women,â they have never offered any more details of them.
Wolff said of the photos, âThey were with Trump at Epsteinâs Palm Beach house sitting around the pool with these young girls, and the young girls are topless.
âAnd in some of the pictures, theyâre sitting in his lap. I mean, and, and then thereâs one I especially remember where thereâs a stain, a telltale stain and on the front of Trumpâs pants, and the girls are pointing at him and laughing.â Trump separated from his second wife Marla Maples in 1997 and began dating his third wife, Melania, in 1998.

The Trump campaign hit back at Wolff for the claims, calling him âdisgraced.â A campaign spokesperson said in a statement to the Beast, âMichael Wolff is a disgraced writer who routinely fabricates lies in order to sell fiction books because he clearly has no morals or ethics.
âHe waited until days before the election to make outlandish false smears all in an effort to engage in blatant election interference on behalf of Kamala Harris. Heâs a failed journalist that is resorting to lying for attention.â
Sources in the Trump camp claimed that he had severed his relationship with Epstein when he learned of allegations that he was a sex trafficker and pointed to his quote: âI was not a fan of Jeffrey Epstein. And you watched people yesterday saying that I threw him out of a club. I didnât want anything to do with him. That was many, many years ago.â
Wolff described the photos as he revealed details of how Epstein was a key source for him while writing his best-selling book Fire & Fury, which rocked the Trump White House when it was published in 2018. Wolff said he had as much as 100 hours of tapes of Epstein talking about Trump and played a short snippet of one of the tapes in the podcast. He also said he was prompted to speak after allegations this week by a former Miss Switzerland that Trump groped her, âgrabbing and touching my body everywhere he could.â

Asked by the co-host of the podcast, journalist James Truman, âWhere are these pictures?â Wolff suggested they may be among the items taken by the FBI, which worked for Trumpâs attorney general, Bill Barr, at the time.
âYou know, he would go and he would take them out of the safe. And then he would return them to the safe and I would say itâs likely that they would have been there when the FBI, Trumpâs FBI at that point, not to put too fine a point on it, raided Epsteinâs house and took the contents of the safe in 2019.â
In 2017, when Wolff was speaking to Epstein, the pedophile was living as a free man and socializing openly in New York and Florida. The tape appears to have been made in a restaurant.

But, said Wolff, he felt that Epstein was at the time living in fear of Trump, whose victory the pedophile had predicted the previous year.
âI couldnât help but feeling that there was a level of personal fear there. So heâs having this conversation with me. And as I say, Iâm writing Fire and Fury," Wolff said.
"Iâm trying to figure out Donald Trump, but itâs as confounding to me, of course, as it was to everybody. âWhat? Who is this guy? How did this happen?ââ
Wolff said Epsteinâs level of fear âstartledâ him, and said, âIâve spoken to several other people who knew Epstein well and yeah, you know, they make the same point. And I know that Epstein would emphasize how he believed Trump was capable of doing anything. He had no scruples.â
Claims that Epstein had compromising material on the rich and powerful with whom he associated have long swirled, especially since his death in a federal jail cell in August 2019, weeks after his arrest.
Wolff also expressed some skepticism that Epsteinâs death was by suicideâsomething which Trump suggested himself in August 2020âbut also warned that the alternative, a cover-up on an extraordinary scale, is itself implausible.
âThe descriptions of how he died seem completely implausible, to have to break your own neck,â Wolff said. âBut the idea of him being murdered seems to also imply that you would have all of these assistant US attorneys and FBI agents who had to keep their mouths shut.â
Wolff, a veteran magazine journalist and author who was also the biographer of Rupert Murdoch, has long been a divisive figure with some questioning the accuracy of what he says and writes. When Fire & Fury was published in January 2018 it attracted praise and bromides in equal measure and threats to sue by Trump, which never materialized. Wolff did not disclose that Epstein, who was then alive and free, was a source and only hinted at it long after Epsteinâs death.
The Daily Beast has reached out to the U.S. Attorneyâs office for the Southern District of New York, which was prosecuting Epstein when he died, for comment.