Fresh scrutiny is falling on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as new court filings and investigative reports revive disturbing speculation about the 47th US president’s entanglement in Epstein’s web of trafficking,

Donald Trump was friendly for at least 15 years with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019.

“The Genius Act, they named it after me,” Trump, 79, joked at the White House East Room ceremony attended by Republican congressmen, administration leaders like crypto czar David Sacks and industry figures — including the billionaire Winklevoss twins.

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For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein’s first arrest.

A rumor that circulated online in July 2025 claimed U.S. President Donald Trump once called now-deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a "fun" and "terrific guy," adding, "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."

Despite recent claims by President Donald Trump that former Biden officials doctored files related to Jeffrey Epstein, many of the documents -- including those mentioning Trump and several prominent Democrats -- have been public for years.

Kevin Spacey has called for the Jeffrey Epstein files to be made public — saying “the truth can’t come soon enough” to help clear his name. “Release the Epstein files. All of them,” tweeted Spacey, 65, who once flew on Epstein’s “Lolita Express” jet and posed on a Buckingham Palace throne with the pedophile’s madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.

In 2002, Donald Trump called Jeffrey Epstein a "fun" and "terrific guy," and added, "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."

The records are at the center of President Trump’s effort to manage fallout from the Epstein case. But unsealing them is complex and requires a judge to sign off.