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Newly-unsealed court documents have been released detailing how an accuser of Jeffery Epstein said he kept tapes of his powerful friends having sex with a woman.
Sarah Ransome, in a string of emails in 2016, claimed that she had copies of tapes Epstein had made of some of his close friends having relations with the unnamed individual.
The list of men included former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and British billionaire Richard Branson, who have all been named as possible attendees of Epstein's infamous private island.
"She confided in me about her casual 'friendship' with Donald. Mr. Trump definitely seemed to have a thing for her and she told me how he kept going on about how he liked her 'pert nipples,'" Ransome wrote about her friend in one email, which has been made public after the court unsealed documents from the case.
"I also know she had sexual relations with Trump at Jeffery's NY mansion on regular occasions," she added.
Trump lawyer denies claims
However, Ransome retracted her claims in an email dated October 23, 2016 with a New York Post columnist, writing, "I would like to retract everything I have said to you and walk away from this," according to the filing.
She feared that a public backlash would bring "only bad things" and "pain for my family".
Later on, in 2019, Ransome admitted in a New Yorker article that she "invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein's behavior."
Trump advisor Steven Cheung said in a statement Monday: "These baseless accusations have been fully retracted because they are simply false and have no merit."
A Virgin Group spokesperson told The New York Post: "In a New Yorker report published in 2019, Ransome admitted that she had 'invented' the tapes. We can confirm that Sarah Ransome's claims are baseless and unfounded."
The emails were filed in a since-settled defamation lawsuit case that was brought by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who had sued his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2015.
