A crude sketch of a unadorned lady allegedly hand-drawn by President Donald Trump was in a salacious fiftieth birthday album gifted to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, based on a Wall Avenue Journal report revealed yesterday, July 17. Trump has denied authoring the be aware and filed a lawsuit in opposition to the Journal lower than 24 hours after the article was revealed.
The lewd drawing was a part of a typewritten birthday be aware bearing Trump’s alleged signature that was addressed to the disgraced financier. Performed in marker, the illustration of what seemed to be a nude lady contained the president’s first identify, which was located within the topic’s groin area instead of pubic hair, based on the Journal.
The image framed a number of strains of typed textual content, which was styled as an imaginary dialog between Trump and Epstein. It concluded with a obscure message: “Joyful Birthday — and will every single day be one other great secret.”
In line with the report, the be aware was included in a leather-bound album containing equally suggestive poems, drawings, images, and messages from Epstein’s shut mates and enterprise associates that had been compiled by the financier’s former assistant Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s at the moment serving a 20-year jail sentence for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse a number of minors.
Trump denied creating the drawing. “I by no means wrote an image in my life,” he instructed the paper. On Friday, July 17, Trump sued the Journal and proprietor Rupert Murdoch on accusations of libel and slander for publishing the report.
Regardless of Trump’s statements on the contrary, there does seem like a precedent for his inventive inclinations. A easy sketch of the Manhattan skyline drawn by the president in 2005 as a part of a literacy marketing campaign fetched $29,128 at an public sale in Los Angeles in 2017. Related doodles by Trump have been apparently included in varied charity auctions.
The president is at the moment going through backlash from each his far-right supporters and opponents over his administration’s failure to ship on guarantees of releasing the long-sought-after Epstein recordsdata, that are believed to include a listing of purchasers concerned within the baby intercourse trafficking ring. Trump’s friendship with Epstein, which is thought to have prolonged again to the Nineties, has lengthy confronted scrutiny, particularly provided that the president’s identify appeared in flight logs for the financier’s personal jet.
Going through mounting outrage from voters and Democratic lawmakers over the Epstein recordsdata, Home Republicans agreed to draft a measure final evening that will name for a possible vote compelling the Justice Division to launch materials from its investigation.
Trump was not the one contributor to Epstein’s birthday bash. In line with the Journal’s report, billionaire retail mogul Les (Leslie) Wexner, a serious funder for Ohio State College’s Wexner Middle for the Arts, additionally gifted an illustration.
“I wished to get you what you need … so right here it’s,” Wexner allegedly wrote in a quick letter that accompanied a drawing of what seemed to be a lady’s breasts, based on the Journal.
Wexner already faces earlier accusations of collaborating in Epstein’s intercourse trafficking scheme. He has denied having any data of the trafficking ring, sustaining that he severed ties with Epstein in 2007, shortly after allegations of the financier’s sexual abuse historical past first grew to become public.
Lately, a number of outstanding arts patrons have been linked to Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 whereas in federal custody.
In January 2024, unsealed court docket paperwork containing testimony from since-deceased intercourse trafficking survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre accused former Artwork Institute of Chicago chairman Thomas Pritzker and Museum of Fashionable Artwork (MoMA) trustee Glenn Dubin of collaborating in Epstein’s schemes. Leon Black, a trustee on the Museum of Fashionable Artwork (MoMA) has additionally been accused of sexually assaulting and raping an adolescent in Epstein’s New York townhouse, in addition to dodging capital features taxes in artwork dealings with the deceased financier. They’ve all denied the allegations.
