The Justice Division on Tuesday launched hundreds of extra information on Jeffrey Epstein, together with a letter he allegedly wrote behind bars to fellow predator Larry Nassar that appeared to recommend President Donald Trump shared their “love” of younger ladies.
The DOJ issued a press release later within the day saying that the letter was “pretend.”
The letter was postmarked Aug. 13, 2019, throughout Trump’s first time period, and returned to sender.
“Pricey L.N., As you understand by now, I’ve taken the ‘brief route’ dwelling,” the letter reads. “Good luck! We shared one factor … our love & caring for younger women and the hope they’d attain their full potential. Our president additionally shares our love of younger, nubile ladies.”
The letter continued, “When a younger magnificence walked by he liked to ‘seize snatch,’ whereas we ended up snatching grub within the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair.”
Nassar pleaded responsible in 2017 to possession of kid pornography and sexually assaulting younger ladies and ladies below the guise of medical therapy as a health care provider for the U.S. ladies’s nationwide gymnastics group.

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Epstein was discovered lifeless in his cell Aug. 10, 2019, whereas awaiting trial on federal intercourse trafficking prices. His demise, which was dominated a suicide, and identified ties to highly effective individuals fueled theories of a “consumer checklist” that Legal professional Common Pam Bondi vowed in February to launch.
His purported letter was a part of a brand new tranche of paperwork launched in a single day after the Justice Division failed to satisfy a Friday deadline to publish its full set of Epstein information. The paperwork launched Tuesday included a series of custody log exhibiting the letter was found on Sept. 25, 2019, in addition to a laboratory examination request from the FBI relating to a handwriting evaluation.
The DOJ denied the letter’s authenticity on Tuesday afternoon.
“The FBI has confirmed this alleged letter from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar is FAKE,” the division stated on X.
The assertion went on to notice that the envelope’s postmark was from Virginia, not New York, the place Epstein was incarcerated. The DOJ additionally stated the letter didn’t embody Epstein’s inmate quantity, which might have been required for outgoing mail, and was not postmarked till three days after he was discovered lifeless. The division additionally stated the handwriting seen within the letter “doesn’t seem to match” Epstein’s.
“This pretend letter serves as a reminder that simply because a doc is launched by the Division of Justice doesn’t make the allegations or claims throughout the doc factual,” the assertion stated.
Whereas the letter itself had not been printed earlier than, The Related Press reported on its existence in June 2023 and cited the investigator who discovered it, who informed a jail official through e-mail on the time, “It appeared he mailed it out and it was returned again to him.”
They continued, “I’m not positive if I ought to open it or ought to we hand it over to anybody?”
The letter could be discovered right here; a scan of the envelope it was despatched in could be discovered right here.

