Jeffrey Epstein showed photos of Donald Trump with topless young women, claims author Michael Wolff

Jeffrey Epstein showed photos of Donald Trump with ‘topless young women’ on his lap, controversial author Michael Wolff has claimed.

The pedophile financier had about half a dozen photos showing Trump at the pool with several young women, Wolff claimed on his podcast Fire & Fury on Thursday. They were taken “in the late 1990s” to Epstein’s Palm Beach home, where he and his attorney, Ghislaine Maxwell, victimized dozens of underage girls, Wolff said.

Wolff claimed they were in Epstein’s safe, which the FBI seized when they raided his homes in New York and Palm Beach in July 2019. The vast amount of evidence collected by the FBI has never been made public — and while prosecutors disclosed after the raid that they had “hundreds of photographs of girls and young women,” they never provided more details.

Wolff said of the photos: “They were with Trump at Epstein’s house in Palm Beach and sitting around the pool with these young girls, and the young girls are topless.

‘And in some pictures they’re sitting on his lap. I mean, and there’s one that I remember in particular: There’s a stain, a telltale stain on the front of Trump’s pants, and the girls are pointing at him and laughing.” Trump divorced 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 “disgraced.” A campaign spokesperson said in a statement to the Beast: “Michael Wolff is a disgraced writer who routinely makes up lies to sell fictional books because he clearly has no morals or ethics.

“He waited until days before the election to issue outlandish false smears, all in an effort to engage in blatant election interference on behalf of Kamala Harris. He is a failed journalist who resorts to lying for attention.”

Sources in the Trump camp claimed he broke off his relationship with Epstein when he learned of allegations that he was a sex trafficker and pointed to his quote: “I was not a fan of Jeffrey Epstein. And you saw people yesterday saying I threw him out of a club. I didn’t want anything to do with him. That was many, many years ago.”

Wolff described the photos while revealing details about how Epstein was an important source for him while writing his best-selling book Fire and furythat rocked the Trump White House when it was published in 2018. Wolff said he had as many as 100 hours of tapes of Epstein talking about Trump and playing a short clip from one of the tapes in the podcast. He also said he was prompted to speak after allegations this week from a former Miss Switzerland that Trump had groped her, “grabbing my body and touching wherever he could.”

Asked by the podcast’s co-host, journalist James Truman: “Where are these photos?” Wolff suggested they may have been among the items taken by the FBI, which worked for Trump’s attorney general, Bill Barr, at the time.

“You know, he would go and get them out of the safe. And then he would take them back to the safe and I would say it was likely that they were there when the FBI, Trump’s FBI at the time, not to put too much emphasis on it, raided Epstein’s house and took the contents of the safe. safe in 2019.”

In 2017, when Wolff spoke to Epstein, the pedophile was living as a free man and openly socializing in New York and Florida. The tape appears to have been made in a restaurant.

But, Wolff said, he felt that at the time Epstein was living in fear of Trump, whose victory the pedophile had predicted the year before.

“I couldn’t help but feel that there was a certain amount of personal fear. So he’s having this conversation with me. And like I say, I’m writing Fire and fury,” said Wolff.

“I’m trying to understand Donald Trump, but of course it’s just as confusing for me as it is for everyone else. ‘What? Who is this man? How did this happen? ”

Wolff said Epstein’s anxiety level “shocked” him, saying, “I’ve talked to several other people who knew Epstein well and yes, you know, they make the same point.” And I know Epstein would emphasize how he believed Trump was capable of anything. He had no scruples.”

Claims that Epstein had compromising material on the rich and powerful he associated with have long circulated, especially since his death in a federal prison cell in August 2019, weeks after his arrest.

Wolff also expressed some skepticism that Epstein’s death was the result of suicide – something Trump himself suggested in August 2020 – but also warned that the alternative, a cover-up on an extraordinary scale, is itself unlikely.

“The descriptions of how he died seem completely implausible, that you have to break your own neck,” Wolff said. “But the idea that he would be killed also seems to imply that you would have all these assistant U.S. attorneys and FBI agents who had to keep their mouths shut.”

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 veracity of what he says and writes. When Fire and fury It was published in January 2018 and attracted praise and bromides in equal measure, and threats of a lawsuit from Trump, which never materialized. Wolff did not reveal that Epstein, who was still alive and free at the time, was a source and did not hint at it until long after Epstein’s death.

The Daily Beast has contacted the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, which prosecuted Epstein when he died, for comment.