DONALD Trump has slammed since-retracted claims that he had sex on regular occasions in Jeffrey Epstein's mansion following a bombshell release of newly unsealed documents.
A spokesperson for the former President called the accusations "simply false" on Monday.
"These baseless accusations have been fully retracted because they are simply false and have no merit," Steven Cheung said in a statement.
The allegations were made in recently unsealed court papers by Sarah Ransome, a victim of Epstein's, who later retracted her words.
In an email written to a journalist in 2016, Ransome claimed that Trump had sex with "many girls," including a friend of hers who wasn't named.
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"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,'" read Ransome's email, filed in court papers.
"I also know she had sexual relations with Trump at Jeffrey's NY mansion on regular occasions as I once met Jen for coffee, just before she was going to meet Trump and Epstein together at his mansion."
In the since-retracted correspondence, Ransome claimed that this friend also slept with former President Bill Clinton and Virgin Group founder, Richard Branson.
A spokesman for Branson said: “We categorically reject all allegations made by Sarah Ransome.
"In 2016, Ms Ransome retracted her claims and then in 2019 after settling her claims with Epstein and Maxwell, she also admitted to The New Yorker that the 'tapes' had been 'invented'.
"The allegations are baseless and unfounded.
“The actions of Jeffrey Epstein were abhorrent and we support the right to justice for the many victims impacted by his abuse.”
In 2019, Angel Ureña, spokesperson for Clinton, denied any claims made about the former president's involvement with Epstein.
"President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York," he said at the time.
Ransome also claimed that Epstein, who was found dead in a New York jail cell on August 10, 2019, a month after facing federal charges for sex trafficking of minors, videotaped the alleged sexual encounters.
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She claimed to have seen the footage, however, said she couldn't share the videos without her friend's permission, according to court docs.
No footage has ever been publicly uncovered but the FBI is facing growing pressure to release evidence that was photographed during a raid on Epstein's mansion in 2019 but was never seized.
Out of fear for her family's safety, Ransome took back her claims in another email, telling the reporter she wanted to "walk away from this."
"I shouldn't have contacted you and I'm sorry I wasted your time. It's not worth coming forward and I will never be heard anyhow and only bad things will happen as a consequence of me going public," Ransome wrote at the time.
"I guess one person can't make a difference."
She later told The New Yorker that she "invented" the alleged tapes.
Her allegations resurfaced after court documents were unsealed as part of a filing by lawyers for law professor Alan Dershowitz, who claimed Ransome is a liar who has contradicted herself.
"Her testimony was fabricated from whole cloth," read the court docs.
"Ms. Ransome’s testimony also contains a slew of other incendiary claims concerning the sexual proclivities of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and other prominent individuals."
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This comes as 17 unsealed files, containing more than 100 newly unsealed pages on Epstein's crimes and associates were released - the fourth batch since the first release last Wednesday.
Other high-profile figures named in the filings include Prince Andrew, Michael Jackson, and Stephen Hawking.
Before Prince Andrew suspended his duties as a working royal in November 2019, Buckingham Palace released a statement regarding his alleged involvement with Epstein.
The palace said at the time that Andrew "deplores the exploitation of any human being and the suggestion he would condone, participate in or encourage any such behavior is abhorrent."
The files are being unsealed as part of a 2015 lawsuit filed against Epstein's co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, by Virginia Giuffre.
Giuffre, along with dozens of other women, accused Epstein of abusing them at his homes in Florida, New York, the US Virgin Islands, and New Mexico.
Her lawsuit against Maxwell, who is serving 20 years in federal prison after being convicted of sex trafficking and conspiracy, was settled in 2017.
However, some documents were kept sealed or redacted by the court over concerns and privacy over the rights of Epstein's victims.
Last month, US District Judge Loretta A. Preska ordered for the records to be released as much of the information is public knowledge.
Giuffre also sued Prince Andrew in 2021 for battery and infliction of emotional distress.
They settled in February 2022 for a reported $16.3 million, though he has always denied the allegations against him and claimed he could not recall ever meeting Giuffre.
