Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein often partied together. (Photo: House Committee)
Among the millions of files released in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, chilling revelations have emerged that show his international sex trafficking ring may have included horrendous crimes.
The allegations are referenced in emails and other documents and acknowledged, in part, by the U.S. Justice Department, although nothing suggests law enforcement ever followed up any of these allegations.
They evidence includes references to murder, rape, torture, snuff films and sexual abuse, presumably, of young girls who fell into Epstein’s orbit as he catered to an elite international clientele. Epstein reportedly used some of the material to blackmail participants.
And, yes, Donald Trump, may have been involved, not tangentially as an unknowing Epstein pal, but as an integral cog — and a victim — in Epstein’s sick schemes.
Snuff films, torture videos
Some of the most damning allegations come from Sascha Riley, a military veteran, who outlined a litany of crimes involving Epstein, Trump and others. In a detailed interview, he said he was sexually assaulted as a youth by Trump and other high-profile individuals and witnessed a murder where Trump was present.
Watch a video of Sascha Riley’s interview here:
Riley also placed Andy Biggs, and Jim Jordan, Lindsay Graham and Clarence Thomas at the scene of alleged sex trafficking and other crimes, including murder.
In his interivew, Riley recalls the night a young African-American girl was murdered in front of his eyes at a party attended by Trump. He and the girl were having sex in a bedroom when armed men burst in, assaulted the girl, then shot her in the head and killed her. She was about 13 years old.
Sascha Riley has posted on ‘X’ about his experiences.
Riley said he was told to do anything the next person who entered the room wanted. That person was Trump. That’s when Riley said he decided to kill him. What happened allegedly explains why Trump is incontinent and wears diapers to this day.
“So that’s why I remember him so vividly. It was at that point, I had already decided they are probably going to kill me anyway, I’m going to take him with me. I tried, but I did not. I kind of acquiesced to whatever sexual things that he wanted to do.
“But at some point, he wanted me to have sex with him so he laid down on his stomach.
“There was a wooden tent stake that was in the room. I had been eyeballing it as a weapon. And, what I did was put the condom on the wooden tent stake, put it inside of him and I kicked it as hard as I could.
“That’s why he had to get life-flighted out, because I ripped him open.” Here is the link: Warning, testimony is graphic.
Riley’s credibility has yet to be tested, but he says he has a clear and undisputed link to Epstein. Riley’s step-father, William “Bill” Kyle Riley, was a pilot for Epstein and trafficked him to the network, he says.
That specific claim can not be confirmed, but Justice Department documents show that a Florida-based private investigator named William Riley was hired by Epstein in the mid-2000s to manage computer systems and track victims.
That Epstein dealt in torture videos was confirmed by another email. In the 2009 email, contained in the files, Epstein referenced a supposed “torture video.” DOJ records identified the recipient as Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, an Emirati business leader, who thanked Epstein for the video.
Murders
Circumstantial evidence also links Trump to two possible murders, and both allegations are not known to have been investigated by the FBI.
In one of those cases, Dusti Rhea Duke was only 14 years old when Trump allegedly abused her. She reported him for rape to the police, and two weeks after filing the complaint, she was found dead with a gunshot to the head in Kiefer, Oklahoma. Police initially concluded it was a homicide, but the local coroner ruled it a suicide.
Russian model Ruslana Korshunova visited Jeffrey Epstein’s island in 2006 when she was 17 years old. She fell from the 9th floor of an apartment building where she lived in New York City two years later. Police concluded her death was a suicide, a finding her mother disputed.
She had no known connection to Trump, either personally or through his modeling agency, according to media reports.
In a separate case, two victims, allegedly abused by Trump at Epstein’s New York City townhouse, claimed in sworn affidavit and direct testimony that Trump threatened to kill one of the girls and her family if she told anyone, stating he could make them “disappear” like another young girl she referred to as “Maria.”
Nothing in the files released so far suggests law enforcement ever followed up these thereats.
The files also contain disturbing details about a supposed body allegedly buried at one of Trump’s golf courses.
According to an FBI document released by the DOJ, the agency received a tip in June of 2021 from a redacted individual described as an alleged “victim,” a former member of the Sinaloa drug cartel, and a close confidant of Epstein’s and Maxwell’s.
The individual was formally interviewed by an FBI agent, and accused Trump of funding “underage sex parties at the Donald Trump Golf course.”
The tipster told the FBI agent that they had personally witnessed Robin Leach, the famed British entertainment reporter and television host, “strangle a young girl during a sex party” at one of Trump’s golf courses or resorts.
The source claimed the body was buried behind the 19th hole,” the report reads. The source said he/she was “aware of three separate occasions in which girls were murdered and buried there” and was threatened with death if she told anyone about it, according to a media report.
Trump and the mob
In another bizarre incident, Epstein re-hired William Riley in 2015 to help “totally discredit” accuser Virginia Giuffre, among the first victims to go public with accusations of sexual abuse and trafficking.
William Riley, hired by Epstein to discredit Virginia Giuffre, suggested in an email to involve Prince Andrew. (Right click to enlarge in new window.)
In email to Riley, Epstein wrote: “before i call trump. with regard vrginina ,, are there any other alternatives.” It’s unknown what Epstein was referring to, or why he felt a need to contact Trump.
But the email raises a chilling question. If all these Trump-linked murders are true, was Trump the conduit to hit men who killed victims who claimed he abused them, or are allegedly buried on his golf course?
While no direct evidence exists for such a scenario, there is no question that Trump was mobbed up throughout his career as a developer in New York City, and New Jersey. His association began with lawyer Roy Cohn.
Cohn represented major organized crime figures, including members of the Genovese crime family such as Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno and Gambino family underboss John Gotti.
Throughout his career, Cohn, who died in 1986, acted as a “fixer” and power broker, bridging the gap between legitimate business, politics, and the Mafia, while also mentoring Trump in the 1970s and 1980s.
Cohn steered Trump to construction companies run by Salerno, a boss in the Genovese family, to build Trump Plaza and Trump Tower. Salerno’s firm, S&A Concrete, provided the concrete and guaranteed labor peace on the projects through mob controlled labor unions.
Paul Castellano, head of the Gambino family, also got a piece of the action on Trump Tower through his own concrete company. Of note, Trump Tower was the first skyscraper in New York City built entirely of prestressed concrete without using any steel.
Of note, Gotti rose to the top of the Gambino family after Castellano was killed in a mob hit in broad daylight outside a Manhattan restaurant.
Trump’s move into the Atlantic City casino business was facilitated by Kenneth Shapiro, a financier with ties to Philadelphia mobster Nicodemo “Little Nicky” Scarfo.
Trump also associated in Atlantic City with high-roller gambler Robert LiButti who had ties to Gotti and the Gambino crime family. Gaming authorities eventually banned LiButti from Trump’s casinos.
In 1988, Trump entered a licensing deal with a limousine company owned by John Staluppi, who was a known “made” member of the Colombo crime family.
Felix Sater, a business associate who worked with the Trump Organization on projects like Trump Tower Moscow, had ties to both the Russian mafia and the Genovese/Bonanno crime families. Sater pleaded guilty in 1998 to racketeering in a scheme involving the Genovese and Bonanno families.
Convicted Russian mobster Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov was allegedly connected to a gambling ring operating out of Trump Tower in 2013. Numerous units in Trump-branded buildings, such as Trump Tower and Trump World Tower, were purchased by individuals later indicted for operating international gambling and money-laundering rings.
John Cody, a Gambino-linked union leader, allegedly received preferential treatment from Trump, including deals on multiple units in Trump Tower.
Michael Franzese, a former caporegime in the Colombo crime family in New York City, and son of former underboss Sonny Franzese, arranged for Russian mobsters to buy condos in Trump Tower.
Franzese, who met Trump through Cohn, claims to this day that Trump’s interaction with the mob was limited to construction, and never had relationships with any mobsters beyond that.
Meanwhile, Giuffre was the target of serious and sustained death threats after she went public. She always spoke highly of Trump and testified that he never abused her, which points up another contradiction.
Epstein referred to Trump as “that dog that hasn’t barked” in an April 2, 2011, email to Maxwell, complaining that Giuffre “spent hours at my house with him” and “he has never once been mentioned” in the scandal.
The Zorro Ranch
The Epstein Zorro Ranch mansion in New Mexico, where a number of alleged crimes took place. (Photo: DOJ)
While events at his Manhattan townhouse and his private island in the Caribbean have received most of the publicity, Epstein’s most horrendous alleged crimes may have occurred at his sprawling “Zorro” ranch.
Epstein bought the secluded New Mexico property in 1993 from the family of Bruce King, the state’s former three-time Democratic governor. The isolated 10,000-acre expanse with a 27,000-square-foot mansion outside of tony Santa Fe, New Mexico, was never serached by the FBI, according to state and local officials.
One of the most bizarre schemes was Epstein’s desire to create a “baby farm” at the ranch where he would impregnate young women to create a master race of humans through selective breeding.
The idea smacked of the most horrendous crimes committed during World War II by Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele, known as the “Angel of Death,” who experimented on young children and teens in his search for a master race.
On multiple occasions starting in the early 2000s, Epstein told scientists and businessmen about his ambitions, according to two award-winning scientists and an adviser to large companies and wealthy individuals, all of whom Mr. Epstein told about it, The New York Times. reported in 2019.
The files also showed that Epstein maintained a list of nearly 30 top scientists, including George M. Church, a molecular engineer who has worked to identify genes that could be altered to create superior humans.
A number of high-profile individuals visited the ranch, including the late French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, the linguist Noam Chomsky and the film-maker Woody Allen.
An untold number of young women also were taken to the ranch and sexually abused by Epstein, his close confidante Ghislaine Maxwell and others.
A girl, identified as Jane in the files, the first accuser to testify at Maxwell at her sex-trafficking trial, said she was lured to the ranch in 1994 when she was 14. She was sexually abused by both Epstein and Maxwell.
Annie Farmer, an Epstein victim who has gone public, said the British socialite gave her a nude massage at the ranch when she was 16.
A letter in the Epstein files from a writer whose name is redacted claims two “foreign girls” died of strangulation during “rough, fetish sex” and were later buried at the ranch on the “orders of Jeffrey and Madam G.”
The writer also claimed to have taken seven videos from Epstein’s home, including ones depicting sex with minors, as “insurance in case of future litigation against Epstein.”
The letter was mailed to Eddy Aragon, the conservative talk show host and former Albuquerque mayoral candidate, in Nov. 2019. Aragon said he gave the letter to the FBI but it was never followed up.
Allegations sex trafficking victims are buried on the land prompted New Mexico’s state House of Representatives to create a “truth commission” this month (Feb) to investigate.
The current owners, Don Huffines and his wife, have pledged “full and complete cooperation” with investigators. Huffines is a businessman and former Republican state senator now running for comptroller in Texas. He said he never met Epstein. The ranch was purchased at a an auction following Epstein’s death.
Models and ‘Foreign Girls’
The connection to “foreign girls” is another of the more chilling aspects of Epstein’s alleged crimes.
During the 1990s, Epstein maintained extensive connections to the modeling industry, primarily utilizing agencies as “pipelines” to recruit and exploit young women and minors, according to various media reports.
Epstein financed (providing up to$1 million in 2004) and co-founded with Brunel MC2 Model Management. The firm was used to traffic girls from abroad, many from Eastern Europe, often from impoverished backgrounds, under the guise of offering them modeling work.
In 1999, Trump had also launched a modeling agency, Trump Model Management, which also recruited young girls from overseas with offers of modeling careers. Throughout it’s existence (1999 to 2017), however, it never lauched a new model’s career.
Epstein reportedly was inspired to launch his own agency because of Trump’s. Aside from shared social circles in the New York modeling scene and allegations regarding the recruitment and treatment of models, no business connection is known to have existed betweed the two.
But a bookkeeper for Trump’s agency testified in a deposition that models were sometimes sent to parties and events specifically to have sex with older, rich men.
Heather Braden, an American model, also stated she saw Brunel, Epstein, and Trump together at parties at least 10 times in the early 1990s. During part of the time, Brunel lived in an apartment in Trump Tower.
In 1992, Trump and Epstein reportedly co-hosted a “calendar girl” competition at Mar-a-Lago with two dozen women. While such events have been confirmed to have taken place, the FBI received information recently released as part of the Epstein files that at least one event included minors who were sexually abused.
Trump allegedly fondled the girl’s genitals to determine their value then “auctioned” them off to high-profile attendees for sex.
The complaint named several prominent figures as purported guests, including members of the Trump family, tech mogul Elon Musk, and attorneys Alan Dershowitz and Bob Shapiro.
Like many similar tips received by the FBI, there is no evidence they were ever investigated. The DOJ, however, did issue a blanket statement. It said the department found “no credible evidence to warrant further investigation into these claims.”
Brunel was alleged to have sex trafficked and abused young girls for two decades and came under scrutiny for his ties to Epstein. Giuffre, perhaps the best known Epstein victim, accused the French businessman of grooming her and other girls and taking part in an alleged sex trafficking operation.
Brunel denied any involvement with Epstein, but following Epstein’s 2019 death, the French National Police charged him with raping minors. He hanged himself in prison before his trial could proceed.
John Casablancas, founder of Elite Model Management was also linked to Epstein. A 2019 lawsuit alleged that in 1990, Casablancas sent a 15-year-old model to meet Epstein, who then sexually assaulted her.
Dutch model Yfke Sturm, formerly of Elite Model Management Amsterdam, appeared in unsealed 2026 documents in transactional email exchanges with Epstein, who claimed she owed him “two girls.”
FBI documents explicitly label billionaire Leslie Wexner, owner of Victoria’s Secret lingerie, as an Epstein “co-conspirator.” Wexner had long-standing financial ties to Epstein.
Paulo Zampolli, a close Trump assoicate operated ID Models in New York City. In media accounts, it has been descreibed as a “factory” to bring young Eastern European and South American girls to the United States, often using visa loopholes.
Zampolli worked with Epstein to buy ID Models and was also close to Maxwell. He served on the board of Maxwell’s ocean conservation nonprofit, the TerraMar Project.
He also reportedly introduced Trump to Melania Knauss, the Slovenian model who became Trump’s third wife. Other reports claimed Epstein introduced the two. Zampolli currently serves as the U.S. Special Representative for Global Partnerships in Trump’s second administration.
While no direct evidence in the files links Zampolli to Epstein’s crimes, the documents highlight a shared professional ecosystem of modeling agencies and visas used to bring foreign models to the United States.
Russian Kompromat
Foreign models also allegedly played a role in efforts by Russian President Vladimir Putin to trap prominent individuals and world leaders in compromising positions to blackmail them.
Emails show Epstein’s network used Russian modeling agencies to source young women, often exploiting their precarious immigration status to bring them to the U.S., according to media reports.
In August last year, Alnur Mussayev, the former chief at the State Security Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan during its time as a Soviet satellite, wrote on Facebook that Trump had been recruited to the Russian KGB (State Security Committee) in 1987. He also revealed that Trump was given the code name “Krasnov.”
The kompromat file on Trump is “comprehensive,” the former Kazakh intelligence officer said, “extensive, meticulously documented, and designed not to destroy Trump—but to control him.”
They include details of Trump’s sexual crimes and criminal money laundering from Russia, Kazakhstan and other former Soviet republics.
Particularly damning, Musayev claims Putin has in his possession videos of Trump “assaulting underage minors,” the same allegation he faces in the Epstein scandal.
The newly released files shed new light on Epstein’s connections to Russian officials and intelligence circles. The Kremlin dismisses the claims, but governments in Poland and other countries have launched formal investigations into Epstein’s ties to Russian intelligence.
The files reveal persistent attempts to meet Vladimir Putin and coordinate with senior Russian officials to influence Western-Russian relations.
Between 2013 and 2018, Epstein repeatedly pressured Thorbjørn Jagland, the former Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, to set up a meeting directly with Putin. Those efforts all failed.
But a 2017 secret FBI report reportedly labeled Epstein as “President Vladimir Putin’s wealth manager.”
Epstein’s name in association with Putin appears more than 1,000 times in the Epstein files.
Among Epstein key Russian contacts is Sergei Belyakov, a known FSB agent and former deputy economic minister, who provided an “intelligence profile” on a Russian model who was allegedly blackmailing Epstein’s business associates. He also helped Epstein with Russian visa applications and attempted to set up meetings with top finance officials.
Vitaly Churkin: Russia’s former UN ambassador, who died in 2017, was identified in files as Epstein’s “primary contact” in Moscow. Epstein claimed he regularly met with Churkin to provide “insight” into Trump and even offered to help Churkin’s son secure a job in New York.
Epstein claimed to have advised Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin on how to handle Trump, writing in 2018 that Churkin “understood trump after our conversations… he must be seen to get something.”
Christopher Steele, the former head of the UK’s MI6 Russia desk, and other intelligence figures suggest Epstein may have been recruited as early as the 1970s by Russian organized crime and later used to harvest kompromat for Moscow.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated the latest Epstein files suggest an “increasingly likely possibility” that Russian intelligence co-organized Epstein’s operation to gain leverage over active Western leaders.
The Kazakh connection to Trump and underage girls, can be traced through alledged money laundering by a Kazakh businessmen involving the Trump SoHo hotel and other projects. In 2006, a company called Bayrock, owned by two Russian emigres, Felix Sater and Tevfik Arif, began construction on the hotel.
Tofik Arifov, a Kazekh businessman was prosecuted for economic crimes in the 90s. But Russia’s intelligence agency, the FSB, the successor to the notorious KGB, arranged to have charges dropped. In exchange, Arifov agreed to become a Russian agent of influence.
Prostitutes were reportedly one of the tools Arifov employed to collect kompromat on people of interest to the Russian spy agency. Musayev asserts that Arifov and three other Kazakh businessmen “delivered girls to Epstein’s island and to Mar-A-Lago” on orders of the FSB.
“Spy camera” footage of young women in states of undress or in lewd positions and personal recordings described as Epstein “musings” were also found. The DOJ did not confirm or deny the existence of “snuff fims” or torture videos.”
Mossad, the Israeli Connection
Maxwell’s father, the late British media mogul Robert Maxwell, who was widely reported to have been a Mossad asset. Some claim Epstein used family ties to establish his own intelligence contacts.
The FBI received a tip from a confidential informant, who “became convinced” Epstein was a Mossad asset and trained as a spy under Barak’s government. Epstein lawyer and former Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, was also reportedly a Mossad conduit.
Ari Ben-Menashe, a fomer Mossad officers and other insiders claim Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation was a “honey trap” to blackmail and compromise powerful figures.
There is no indication in the files to suggest the FBI followed up these allegations. Current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen have dismissed any connection.
Justice for victims
The massive unsealing of Epstein’s files over the past two years (over 3.5 million pages and thousands of videos) center on the systemic enabling of his crimes and the proximity of global elites to his trafficking operation.
But the documents, in part because of their sheer number, are like bits of bone at an archaeological dig. They must be pieced together before a comprehensive picture emerges of Epstein’s operation.
The process is being hindered by the Justice Department’s heavy redaction of files and its refusal to release all of the documents and videos in its possession, despite claims it has already done so.
Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie have asked for a court-appointed Special Master to oversee the release and ensure no relevant files are withheld. U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer denied this request in January 2026 after concluding the court lacked jurisdiction. Efforts are now underway in Congress.
Independent researchers and journalists continue to pursue additional records through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against the FBI and other agencies.
Years of failure by investigative agencies to follow up on Epstein tips and complaints have left scores of unanswered questions. Dozens of sex trafficking participants have never been held accountable.
But it’s crucial to determine the breadth and scope of Epstein’s operations to finally deliver justice for the victims and put an end to one of the biggest scandals in U.S. history.