The birthday book and the estate emails

The book is 238 pages of photos, school records, poems and letters, compiled by Maxwell. Its contents list more than 20 “friends,” including Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz and Donald Trump; the names under “girl-friends” are redacted. There are crude pages such as “Girls on my boat,” and a photo with a mock check from Trump to Epstein for $22,500 captioned as the price of a “fully depreciated” woman. The estate redacted women’s and minors’ faces and names. [1][2]

The page bearing Trump’s name has typed text framed by a hand-drawn outline of a woman’s body and ends “may every day be another wonderful secret,” above a “Donald” signature. The White House says Trump did not write, draw or sign it; his suit against the Journal was dismissed in April 2026 and refiled. The estate also told the committee it was “not aware of the existence” of any client list. [1][3]

On 12 November 2025 Oversight Democrats released three emails. In one, from 2019, Epstein told the writer Michael Wolff that Trump “knew about the girls” and had asked Maxwell to stop. In another, from 2011, Epstein told Maxwell that a victim had “spent hours at my house” with Trump. The White House said the emails proved nothing and identified the victim as Virginia Giuffre, who had said Trump did nothing wrong. [1][3]

Republicans released about 20,000 pages the same day, and the full set shows Epstein offering commentary to everyone: journalists, academics, a former Norwegian prime minister, and, in 2018, a suggestion that Russia’s foreign minister talk to him to “get insight” into Trump. Epstein boasted about his access; his emails are the words of a convicted manipulator about other people, not evidence of what they did. [2][4]