Overview

• The House Oversight Committee released a 2003 birthday note from Jeffrey Epstein’s album featuring a hand-drawn female silhouette and sexually suggestive wording.
• The page bears Donald Trump’s name and signature, which he disputes, asserting he neither wrote the note nor made the drawing.
• Trump has filed a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal for reporting on the note’s existence in July.
• The entry comes from an album compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s 50th birthday that the Epstein estate provided to the committee.
• Lawmakers say the release is part of a broader review, with plans to examine additional unredacted estate records in New York, while prior DOJ and FBI reviews reported no Epstein “client list” and ruled his 2019 death a suicide.