Justice Department Releases Epstein Interview Files It Had Withheld as 'Duplicative'

On March 6, 2026, the Justice Department released three FBI interview summaries, known as 302s, documenting a woman's account of an alleged sexual assault by Donald Trump in the 1980s, when she said she was between 13 and 15 and also a victim of Jeffrey Epstein. The department released them only after news organizations noticed they were missing from the January release made under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. DOJ said the summaries had been incorrectly deemed duplicative; a fourth document from the same set, focused on Epstein, had been included in January. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the allegations completely baseless. Journalists reported that at least 37 further pages, including underlying interview notes, remained unreleased.

The allegations in the documents are uncorroborated and denied. The documented dispute is over the department's compliance with a statutory disclosure mandate, and specifically over how records adverse to the president came to be omitted from a court- and Congress-supervised production.

The department said unredacted versions would be made available for congressional review. House Oversight Chairman James Comer subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the files on March 17.