This Saturday, October 31, an American federal judge rejected a defamation complaint by Donald Trump against The Wall Street Journal for an article attributing to him a letter addressed to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.
The American president Donald Trump had denied being the author of this letter and had sued the newspaper for defamation, as well as its owner Rupert Murdoch, seeking at least 10 billion dollars in damages.
In his decision, Florida judge Darrin P. Gayles refrains from ruling on the letter’s authenticity, but he found that The Wall Street Journal had properly investigated and acted in good faith in publishing it.
By contrast, he concluded that Donald Trump had not demonstrated that the newspaper published this article knowing it was false.
According to the daily, this letter appeared in a guestbook dedicated to the New York financier Jeffrey Epstein on the occasion of his 50th birthday.
His girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, had then solicited several dozen of his close associates, including Donald Trump, who at the time was a real estate magnate.
Typed text surrounded by a sketch of a naked woman!
The letter attributed to the occupant of the White House, revealed in 2025 by the newspaper and since then published by numerous media outlets, contains several lines of typed text surrounded by a sketch of a naked woman with its signature evoking a pubic hair. “Happy birthday – and may each day be another wonderful secret,” it reads.
Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and charged in July 2019 with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit this offense.
The death of this friend of stars and the powerful, found hanged in his cell in New York a month before his trial, fueled numerous theories, including conspiracy theories, that he had been murdered to prevent revelations involving high-profile figures.
