Sun 21 December 2025:
More than one dozen files included in the release of investigative records on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including a photo showing US President Donald Trump, have been reportedly removed from the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s website, media reports said Saturday.
“This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release,” Democrats on the House Oversight Committee wrote on US social media company X.
They called on General Attorney Pamela Bondi to provide “transparency for the American public.”
The removed files also included images of various artworks, some of which contained nudity, NPR reported.
It comes after the Justice Department released thousands of records Friday related to the sex trafficking investigation into Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
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The release came on the last day of the 30 days allowed by the Epstein Files Transparency Act — legislation forcing the Justice Department action to release all documents related to the probe.
One picture has Trump standing surrounded by women in bathing suits, while the second appears to be an already known picture – partly obscured – of him, his wife Melania, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.
The other photos removed from the trove of documents were almost all nude paintings of women in Epstein’s home.
Trump has not commented on the release of the files and has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein’s case.
Thousands of documents relating to the dead paedophile financier were made public by the DOJ on Friday – hours before a legal deadline following the passing of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Many of the pages were either partially or fully redacted, which the DOJ says is to protect the more than 1,200 victims and their families identified in them.
Some of Epstein’s victims, legal experts and members of the public have questioned whether this is the sole reason for the redactions, while the Oversight Democrats have claimed: “This is a White House cover-up.”
Ashley Rubright, who was abused for several years after meeting Epstein in Palm Beach when she was 15, told Sky News: “Seeing […] completely redacted pages, there’s no way that that’s just to protect the victims’ identities, and there better be a good reason. I just don’t know if we’ll ever know what that is.”
Gloria Allred, a lawyer who has represented some of Epstein’s victims, says she has been told that despite the heavy redactions, some compromising pictures of survivors and their names were left in the files released on Friday.
“We have had to notify the Department of Justice about names that should have been redacted that weren’t redacted,” she told Sky News.
“So this is further trauma to survivors, and apparently also some of the images of some of the survivors appear not to have been redacted, and they are nude or not completely dressed.
“This is a major concern because the law clearly indicates, and the judges have indicated, that the names and any identifying information of the survivors must be redacted.”
Gloria Allred, a lawyer who has represented some of Epstein’s victims, says she has been told that despite the heavy redactions, some compromising pictures of survivors and their names were left in the files released on Friday.
“We have had to notify the Department of Justice about names that should have been redacted that weren’t redacted,” she told Sky News.
“So this is further trauma to survivors, and apparently also some of the images of some of the survivors appear not to have been redacted, and they are nude or not completely dressed.
“This is a major concern because the law clearly indicates, and the judges have indicated, that the names and any identifying information of the survivors must be redacted.”
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