A previously sealed FBI interview summary from 2019 describes a woman’s account of being sexually assaulted by Donald Trump as a teenager after Jeffrey Epstein brought her to a high-rise building in New York or New Jersey in the early 1980s.
The woman, identified here as Jane Doe to protect her identity, told federal agents during an August 7, 2019 interview that Epstein took her off the island where she lived when she was between 13 and 15 years old. He drove or flew her to what she recalled as either New York or New Jersey and introduced her to Trump.
“Introduced to someone with money, money… It was Donald Trump,” she said.
Jane Doe said she, Epstein, Trump and others gathered in a very tall building with huge rooms. Trump took an immediate dislike to her because she was a tomboy — “a boy-girl,” in her words.
Trump asked everyone to leave the room, and they did. Once alone with her, he said something to the effect of, “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.” He unzipped his pants and forced her head down to his penis, according to the interview summary.
Jane Doe said she bit him. Trump struck her and told the others to “get this little bitch the hell out of here.”
She told agents she bit him because he disgusted her. “He had money, it reeked off of him.”
Afterward, a blond woman approached Jane Doe and offered unsolicited advice: “Let me give you a tip little girl about your breasts, wear a bra every night.” Jane Doe said those words stayed with her for the rest of her life.
She described a jealous dynamic between the two men. Trump appeared envious of Epstein, though over time “they ended up on level playing fields.” Both men referred to girls as “fresh meat,” “untainted” and “not jaded” — a word Jane Doe said she did not understand at the time and had to look up later.
Jane Doe told agents she had two additional interactions with Trump but asked to change the subject.
She also said she was confident Trump knew Epstein blackmailed people because she heard the two men discussing it. She told investigators she heard Trump talking about washing money through casinos and knew he had illegal building permits.
The Trump encounter was one piece of a much larger pattern of abuse Jane Doe described to the FBI. She estimated she had between six and 20 sexual encounters with Epstein, beginning when she was approximately 13.
She said she met Epstein through what she called fraud and misrepresentation. He took explicit photographs of her and used them to blackmail her mother, forcing the woman to embezzle from her real estate company to keep paying him. Her mother “tried to buy back the photos and secrets” for years, Jane Doe said.
An Epstein associate Jane Doe identified as Jim Atkins — a man she described as a white male with gray hair, big ears and a hairy body, possibly in his 50s and connected to an Ohio university — joined in the blackmail and separately sexually assaulted Jane Doe on multiple occasions. Atkins and his accountant, a man she knew only as Cecil, helped her mother doctor the real estate books.
When the relationship between Atkins and her mother fell apart, Atkins, Epstein and possibly Cecil turned her mother in to the Real Estate Commission with accurate records. Her mother went to prison for embezzlement. The blackmailing, Jane Doe said, “ruined my family.”
Before meeting Epstein, her mother had been sober. Afterward, she started drinking again.
Jane Doe said she was drugged during nearly every encounter with Epstein — always given alcohol and marijuana, usually cocaine. Epstein’s drink was gin and tonic. He listened to classical music and blared Neil Diamond.
She described being sent on what she called “missions” to recruit “young girls who wanted to party.” Once she started bringing Epstein other girls, the dynamic between them shifted. He began treating her as a trusted insider. She said he looked at her like she was his “good girl.” She understood it as survival: “Better to get him people to party with, than to be partied on.”
Looking back, she told agents, “He was probably grooming me.”
During a separate incident when she was about 15, Jane Doe attended a Rick James concert in Savannah, Georgia, with a friend and the friend’s mother. Epstein showed up unexpectedly, isolated her, got her drunk from a flask and eventually abandoned her. She wandered the streets alone, high on marijuana, until police picked her up. They photographed her and put her in a cell. Her mother and brother eventually drove down to bring her home.
Jane Doe also described an unidentified woman present on multiple occasions — around Epstein’s age, in her 30s, with darker skin and long dark wavy hair. The woman never spoke to her and gave off what Jane Doe called a “cold feeling.”
Not long before the interview, a friend’s cologne triggered a visceral reaction. It “instantly put me back there,” she said. “Same smell as Jeffrey.” The friend later identified the scent as Grey Flannel.
Jane Doe closed the interview with a request: keep her safe.
“Throughout my life his people have found me,” she said of Epstein’s network. “Have kept tabs on me.”
This article is based on an FBI FD-302 interview summary, File 31E-NY-3027571 Serial 252, dated August 22, 2019.