Up to nearly 50,000 more files linked to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein will be released later this week, and are believed to contain unverified claims about President Donald Trump. 

The files, which were mentioned in the tranche released in January, were withheld by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), with the deputy attorney-general, Todd Blanche, insisting they were withheld to protect survivors. 

The documents are believed to contain unverified claims about the US President, including FBI notes from 2019 interviews with a woman who made allegations against both Epstein and Trump. 

It comes after a Wall Street Journal and CBS analysis found that 47,635 files appeared to be missing from the tranche of documents released to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

The department said they had been taken ‘offline for further review and should be ready for re-production by the end of the week.’

Officials previously stated some files contained fake or false materials that were sent to the FBI by the public and may ‘contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump.’ 

Files that are still public contain a 2025 memo in which federal officials wrote that the woman had said that Epstein introduced her to Trump and that she claimed the now-US president had assaulted her in a violent encounter when she was a minor in 1983.

Trump has denied the allegations made against him, and there was no assessment by the FBI about the credibility of her accusation. 

Up to nearly 50,000 more files linked to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein will be released later this week, and are believed to contain unverified claims about President Donald Trump

Trump with Epstein in 1992. The president was apparently mentioned in an interview an Epstein survivor gave the FBI in 2019

The woman was also deemed ineligible for the Epstein victims’ compensation programme, which paid settlements to more than 130 Epstein victims. 

A DOJ official said ‘nothing has been deleted’, but Democratic members of the House oversight committee investigating Epstein have criticised the redactions. 

The department last month said it was reviewing whether it wrongfully withheld documents in the Epstein files containing allegations against Trump. 

Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, lawmakers are required to publicise most documents related to the cases against Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. 

The DOJ is only permitted to withhold files under the act if they are duplicates, fall under attorney-client privilege, could hurt an ongoing investigation or are completely unrelated to the Epstein and Maxwell cases. 

The law specifically prohibits the department from withholding or redacting files because they could be embarrassing to public officials.

Before releasing the tranche of files in January,  the DOJ deployed hundreds of attorneys to review the documents, giving them instructions on how to redact and determine whether the files needed to be released under the law, according to the WSJ.

The reviewers, many of whom had little familiarity with the Epstein case, were then expected to flag any ‘government officials and politically exposed persons named or referenced in the released materials’.

Trump with an unidentified woman in a photo released by the House Oversight Committee

Trump, Melania, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2000. Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has said his friendship with Epstein ended before he pleaded guilty to procuring a minor for prostitution in 2008

‘Should any document be found to have been improperly tagged in the review process and is responsive to the Act, the department will, of course, publish it, consistent with the law,’ a spokeswoman for the department said in a statement.

Deputy attorney general Blanche, who has overseen the release of the files, has previously insisted that the department complied with the law and has not withheld documents or redacted information because it could prove embarrassing for Trump or other public figures.

‘I can assure that we complied with the statute, that we did not protect President Trump,’ he said at a news conference on January 30. ‘We didn’t protect or not protect anybody.’

A review of the documents shows the Department of Justice released an FBI summary of the woman’s first FBI interview on July 24, 2019, in which she detailed the assault she faced from the financier on Hilton Head Island beginning when she was around 13 in the 1980s.

The summary of the interview – which came shortly after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges – does not mention allegations against Trump.

But the FBI apparently determined the woman’s initial allegations against Epstein were significant enough that agents followed up with her for three more interviews on August 7, 2019, August 20, 2019 and October 16, 2019.

Notes from all four FBI interviews with the woman were included on a list of materials provided to Maxwell’s defence attorneys in 2021 and were described as non-testifying witness material, according to another file in the release. 

A source familiar with the investigation also told NBC News that the survivor is the same person who made an additional allegation that she was forced into a sex act with Trump when she was about 13 or 14 years old in New Jersey.

This accusation was summarised in a document prepared by the FBI last summer in a presentation on the prominent names mentioned in the Epstein and Maxwell cases.

The FBI, though, has said that most of the claims were either deemed not credible or made by people who provided no contact information.

At around the same time that she came forward with these allegations, the woman joined a civil lawsuit against the Epstein estate, claiming he sexually abused her around 1984.

The suit claimed Epstein flew her to New York and trafficked her to ‘prominent wealthy men’.

However, she was deemed ineligible for the Epstein Victim’s Compensation Program and her suit was voluntarily dismissed in 2021, the Journal reports.

President Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and has said his friendship with Epstein ended before he pleaded guilty to procuring a minor for prostitution in 2008.

By the time Epstein was arrested again in 2019, Trump said he had not talked to him in about 15 years.

Ahead of the release of the new set of files, a White House spokesman said: ‘Just as President Trump has said, he’s been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein.’