Newly unsealed court documents reveal that Sarah Ransome, a Jeffrey Epstein accuser, once claimed that former President Donald Trump had “sexual relations” with one of her unnamed friends at Epstein’s New York home “on regular occasions”.
Ransome also claimed that she had copies of tapes Epstein had made of some of his high-profile friends, including Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and British business magnate Richard Branson, allegedly having sex with an unnamed woman.
The documents are part of a since-settled defamation lawsuit that Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre brought against the sicko’s madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2015.
Ransome walked back the salacious allegations in an e-mail with a Post columnist, writing, “I would like to retract everything I have said to you and walk away from this,” according to the filing. In 2019, in a New Yorker article, Ransome admitted that she “invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein’s behaviour.”
On Monday, Trump advisor Steven Cheung said: “These baseless accusations have been fully retracted because they are false and have no merit.” Clinton’s rep, Angel Urena, declined to comment on Monday. A Virgin Group spokesperson told The Post: “We can confirm that Sarah Ransome’s claims are baseless and unfounded.”
9Epstein’s compound on Little St. James island in the Caribbean.SplashNews.com
The court documents also contain the accounts of some of Epstein’s teenage victims, as well as those who once worked for the late financier. Among the details to emerge in the newly unsealed docs released last week were allegations that Prince Andrew “spent weeks” at Epstein’s Palm Beach, Florida, mansion, where the disgraced royal would receive “daily” massages. A girl, identified only as Jane Doe 3, also accused the Duke of York of engaging in an “orgy” with underage girls during one of his stays on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean, according to a court filing.
Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s one-time lawyer, had been accused by Giuffre of sexually abusing her in a lawsuit she has since dropped, admitting she “may have made a mistake.” Dershowitz’s legal team argued that “she manifestly lacks credibility” and that if Ransome’s deposition were to be made public, her emails should be made public too because, without the added context, her “unrebutted testimony would gravely prejudice [Dershowitz] by publishing deliberate lies calculated to harm his reputation.”
The accuser also claims there are tapes of Donald Trump. Getty Images
The 17 documents, totalling 327 pages, released Monday added to the avalanche of information that has emerged in recent days detailing how the late paedophile leveraged his connections to the rich, powerful, and famous to recruit young girls and cover up his crimes.
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