JEFFREY Epstein allegedly told a teen victim he was already a dad – while also asking other young women he abused to have his child, newly released files claim.
One victim told investigators that the convicted paedo pointed to a photograph of a blonde woman displayed inside his New York mansion and said she had given birth to his baby.
The woman, who claims Epstein sexually assaulted her for years after she met him aged 16, told the FBI the image showed a blonde on a beach.
“In another suite of his residence, there was a picture of a blonde woman on the beach,” she said.
“Epstein told (redacted) that this was the mother of his child.
“There was a torso sculpture, like a mold – Epstein said this mold was of this woman.
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“Epstein told that this woman was perfect. Epstein told that her husband will be very lucky”.
The allegation appears in documents released by the Department of Justice and is likely to fuel long-running speculation that Epstein secretly fathered a child.
But the claims have been repeatedly denied by his brother, Mark Epstein, who insists the disgraced financier never had children.
The victim, who spoke to the FBI in January 2020, said she had moved to Kansas with her family as a child after immigrating from a country that is redacted in the documents.
Her parents reportedly worked at McDonald’s to support the family.
She later moved to New York after being discovered by a modelling scout and said she met Epstein five times in 2005 through contacts in the modelling world.
In her disturbing account, she told investigators she was still a virgin when she first met him and alleged that after abusing her he bragged that she was the “best d*** sucker”.
The files also reportedly contain a photograph showing Epstein hugging a woman in his New York home while she cradles a baby in her arms.
The faces of the woman and child are concealed.
Other images released in the tranche of documents show Epstein holding babies, though the children have never been identified.
Speculation about Epstein having a child intensified after emails from his former friend Sarah Ferguson surfaced.
Writing to him in September 2011, she said: “Don’t know if you are still on this bbm [BlackBerry Messenger] but heard from The Duke that you have had a baby boy.
“Even though you never kept in touch, I still am here with love, friendship and congratualtions [sic] on your baby boy. Sarah xx.”
Separate accounts suggest Epstein also allegedly tried to persuade women he abused to carry his child.
Handwritten notes believed to be from a British victim claim he raised the idea while she was at his Palm Beach home, prompting anger from his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
She wrote that Maxwell was “upset and pi***d” when Epstein “brought up (the) subject of having a child”.
The woman added that Maxwell “punished me because of it” and claimed it was “humiliating for her [Maxwell]that JE want have child w/me and not her. I look more his type”.
Two other women have also previously claimed Epstein asked them to have his baby.
In a deposition from a defamation case filed by Virginia Giuffre against Maxwell in 2015, accuser Johanna Sjoberg said he repeatedly made the request.
Asked if anyone had asked her to have his baby, Sjoberg replied: “Jeffrey asked me”.
She added: “Basically just said, I want you to be the mother of my baby”.
Giuffre later wrote in her memoir that the proposal felt deeply wrong.
“There was no way I wanted to bring a child into the world for them to raise. What if the baby were female?” she wrote.
“Was the plan for Epstein and Maxwell to have me bring that little girl up until she reached puberty, then hand her over for them to abuse?”
Epstein was found dead in his New York jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
