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Overview
- Melania Trump, in a rare statement Thursday, denied any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and said she is not one of his victims.
- She said she met Donald Trump in 1998 and first encountered Epstein in 2000 at an event, adding that Epstein did not introduce the couple.
- She said she never flew on Epstein’s plane or visited his private island, and that she had no knowledge of his crimes.
- She called on Congress to hold a survivor-focused public hearing with testimony under oath to put victims’ accounts on the record.
- The remarks land as newly released case files cite many public figures and after a 2025 claim by Hunter Biden that her lawyer, Alejandro Brito, labeled false and defamatory.