STORY: :: Melania Trump denies ties to Jeffrey Epstein in a White House address
:: April 9, 2026
"The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today."
"I never been friends with Epstein. Donald and I were invited to the same parties as Epstein from time to time. Since overlapping in social circles is common in New York City and Palm Beach. To be clear, I never had a relationship with Epstein or his accomplice, Maxwell. My email reply to Maxwell cannot be categorized as anything more than casual correspondence. My polite reply to her email doesn't amount to anything more than a trivial note."
"I call on Congress to provide the women who have been victimized by Epstein with the public hearing specifically centered around the survivors. Give this victims their opportunity to testify under oath in front of Congress with the power of sworn testimony, each and every woman should have her day to tell her story in public if she wishes, and then her testimony should be permanently entered into the Congressional Record. Then, and only then, we will have the truth. Thank you."
The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today," President Donald Trump's wife said in a rare address from the White House.
She said she had never had a relationship with Epstein or his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, with whom she said she had only a casual correspondence.
"I never been friends with Epstein. Donald and I were invited to the same parties as Epstein from time to time, since overlapping in social circles is common in New York City," she said. "To be clear, I never had a relationship with Epstein or his accomplice, Maxwell.
