Ghislaine Maxwell does not remember President Donald Trump giving Jeffrey Epstein a birthday card, she said during her Department of Justice (DOJ) interview released Friday.
Trump sued The Wall Street Journal in July after the outlet published a story alleging he wrote Epstein a birthday letter in 2003 with text framed by the outline of a “naked woman.”
“Do you remember President Trump submitting a letter or a card or a note?” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche asked during the July interview.
“I don’t,” Maxwell said.
Maxwell did remember seeing portions of the book, which she prepared as a gift for Epstein’s 50th birthday, in the discovery materials from her New York case. The discovery materials did not include a letter from Trump, Maxwell said.
“I remember there was — there were some portions of that book,” she said. “But what surprised me — yeah. What surprised me was how few there were, because I thought if you had those, where are the rest? There was none of Mr. Trump.”
Apart from the discovery materials, Maxwell said she did not remember whether or not Trump wrote a letter.
WSJ got a copy of a letter Trump allegedly sent Jeffrey Epstein for his birthday. This is what it said. Trump denies he sent it. pic.twitter.com/dc9gvAU1Od
— Andrew Kaczynski (@KFILE) July 17, 2025
Later in the interview, Maxwell was shown a letter from the 2003 birthday book attributed to her, which she also did not remember.
“But it does look like my handwriting,” she said. “And it does look like my name. And it looks like it could be real, but I have no memory of writing that, and I don’t remember it at all.”
Trump has repeatedly denied writing Epstein a letter.
“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,” he told the WSJ. “It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
“The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after filing the lawsuit.
The DOJ released the interview with Maxwell, conducted on July 24 and July 25, on its website Friday. Attorney General Pam Bondi directed Blanche to meet with Maxwell in July.
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