Fact Check: Epstein Email Released by House Panel Says Trump “Knew About the Girls”

Claim: Democrats on the U.S. House Oversight Committee released an email in November 2025 in which Jeffrey Epstein alleged that President Donald Trump “knew about the girls.”

Rating: True

Explanation: On Nov. 12, 2025, Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee released more than 20,000 pages of Epstein Files obtained earlier under subpoena. The release was announced publicly in a committee statement here: Oversight Committee Releases Additional Epstein Estate Documents.

Those documents followed an August subpoena of Epstein’s estate, first reported here: AP News—House Committee Subpoenas Jeffrey Epstein’s Estate.

Included in the November document release was a Jan. 31, 2019, email Epstein reportedly sent to author Michael Wolff. In the message, Epstein wrote that “of course he [Trump] knew about the girls,” apparently referencing his victims. The Oversight Democrats also published the email in their press release: House Oversight Committee Releases Jeffrey Epstein Email Correspondence.

Wolff confirmed in a video posted to Instagram that the emails released by Congress were authentic correspondence between himself and Epstein. Snopes has also verified the emails and maintains a full list of claims about Trump’s relationship with Epstein here: 17 Rumors About Trump and Epstein, Fact-Checked.

The White House told Snopes that the redacted victim referenced in the email was Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre—whose story is detailed here in a CBS News profile: Virginia Giuffre, in Her Own Words—died in April 2025. She accused Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of sex trafficking but did not accuse Trump of wrongdoing. In her posthumous memoir, outlined in this AP report: Virginia Giuffre Memoir Set for Release, Giuffre said Trump was friendly during their only meeting at Mar-a-Lago.

The White House said the email was being taken out of context and pointed to Trump’s past claim that Epstein had been removed from the club—comments previously reported here: BBC—Trump Says Epstein “Stole” Young Women From His Spa.

Because the email was indeed contained in the Oversight Committee’s November 2025 release, the claim is accurate.