EFTA02858481 FBI Interview Report: Victim Testimony Alleging Abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and Associates (2019 FD 302)

UpdatedSeptember 11, 2026

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Evidence Snapshot

Document ID: EFTA02858481

Document title: FBI Interview Number 2

Document type: FBI FD 302 interview report

Interview date: August 7, 2019

Drafted: August 9, 2019

Entered into FBI records: August 22, 2019

Public release date: March 5, 2026

Agency: Federal Bureau of Investigation

Producing source: United States Department of Justice

FBI case number: 31E-NY-3027571

Serial number: 252

Subserial number: 3501.045-003

Pages: Ten

EFTA page range: EFTA02858481 through EFTA02858490

Source classification: Protected source

Document markings: “PROTECT SOURCE,” UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO, and CONFIDENTIAL

People named: Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, Jim Atkins identified phonetically, Cecil with no confirmed last name, Rick James, the protected source, the source’s mother, and unidentified associates and possible witnesses

Locations named: An island community in South Carolina, Savannah in Georgia, New York or New Jersey, Ohio, and additional unidentified or redacted locations

Content warning: This record contains allegations involving child sexual abuse, attempted sexual assault, physical violence, drugs, coercion, blackmail, threats, and exploitation. This article avoids unnecessary graphic details and does not identify the protected source.

Evidence classification: Official government record documenting firsthand allegations

Verification status: The document’s provenance, dates, identifiers, and contents are verified. The central allegations recorded inside it remain unadjudicated and are not independently proven by the FD 302.

Key takeaway: EFTA02858481 establishes that a protected source gave federal agents a detailed account alleging that Jeffrey Epstein abused and exploited her while she was a minor. She also made allegations involving Donald Trump, a man identified phonetically as Jim Atkins, and other unidentified adults. The document proves that the FBI received and recorded the allegations. It does not prove that every allegation was verified or that every person named committed a crime.

What This Evidence Is

EFTA02858481 is a ten page FBI FD 302 summarizing the second known interview of a protected source who reported abuse by Jeffrey Epstein beginning when she was approximately thirteen to fifteen years old.

The FBI conducted the interview in person on August 7, 2019. Agents drafted the report on August 9 and entered it into the investigative file on August 22. The report is cataloged under FBI case 31E-NY-3027571 as Serial 252 and subserial 3501.045-003.

This interview occurred two days before Epstein died in federal custody on August 9, 2019.

An FD 302 is an agent’s written summary of an interview. It is not normally a word for word transcript. The document reflects how the interviewing agents selected, organized, and memorialized the source’s statements after the interview.

The standard notice printed on the report states that the FD 302 contains neither FBI recommendations nor FBI conclusions. The official status of the document establishes that the interview occurred and that the FBI recorded the information. It does not mean the FBI determined that every statement was accurate.

The report carries the instruction “PROTECT SOURCE.” That marking establishes that the FBI considered the source’s identity sensitive. It does not represent a finding that her allegations were corroborated.

The description “victim testimony” refers to the nature of the source’s account. This was an investigative interview rather than sworn testimony in a courtroom or deposition.

The Department of Justice released the report through Data Set 12 on March 5, 2026. Reuters reported that Interviews 2, 3, and 4 were initially omitted because the records had been incorrectly coded as duplicates.

The direct Department of Justice copy is available through the official EFTA02858481 PDF.

The file contains ten pages, is not encrypted, and has the following SHA 256 value:

e9272fbc274ba4843829eca8373b9a37934f272d1a00b7d22f6f2e8622418fd8

The cryptographic hash allows researchers to determine whether separately downloaded copies are identical. It does not authenticate the truth of the statements inside the file.

What It Shows

Confirmed

The following points are confirmed by the document itself.

The FBI interviewed the protected source on August 7, 2019.
This was identified as Interview Number 2.
The interview formed part of FBI case 31E-NY-3027571.
The FBI assigned the report Serial 252 and subserial 3501.045-003.
Agents drafted the report on August 9, 2019.
The report was entered into FBI records on August 22, 2019.
The FBI marked the source “PROTECT SOURCE.”
The source provided school yearbook information and two photographs showing her at approximately thirteen to sixteen years of age.
The source accused Epstein of repeated sexual and physical abuse beginning when she was a minor.
She accused a man identified phonetically as Jim Atkins of assault and participation in blackmail.
She accused Donald Trump of attempted sexual assault and physical violence while she was a minor.
She described unidentified adults, other girls, drugs, alcohol, photographs, recruitment pressure, and possible blackmail.
She asked the FBI to protect her because she feared people associated with Epstein.
The report preserves potential investigative leads involving family members, school records, photographs, financial records, real estate records, a prosecution, a concert, police contact, travel, buildings, and possible witnesses.
The FD 302 does not state that the FBI verified the alleged assaults.

Alleged Abuse by Jeffrey Epstein

The source said she had become comfortable providing additional information about sexual and physical abuse allegedly committed by Epstein and people associated with him.

She alleged that Epstein gained access to her through deception and through adults connected to her family. According to her account, Epstein and others exploited her mother’s vulnerability.

The source estimated that she had more than six but fewer than twenty sexual interactions involving Epstein. She alleged that nearly every interaction, apart from one concert related incident, involved abuse.

She described Epstein as the person directing the surrounding activity. According to her account, other adults deferred to him.

The source alleged that Epstein supplied or made available alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and other drugs. She believed she had been drugged during several encounters.

She also alleged that Epstein took Polaroid photographs during sexual activity, including photographs created while she was a minor. No copies of those alleged photographs are attached to the report.

Alleged Recruitment Pressure

The source alleged that Epstein asked whether her friends wanted to attend parties. She said he sent her on what she called “missions” to locate “young girls who wanted to party.”

She described feeling safer when she introduced other girls because doing so reduced the abuse directed toward her. She summarized the coercive environment with the phrase “eat or be eaten.”

This account describes survival behavior by a minor within an allegedly coercive environment. It should not be interpreted as evidence that the source freely or knowingly chose to participate in the exploitation of other girls.

The conduct described resembles recruitment patterns documented in other Epstein cases, where girls were paid, pressured, or encouraged to bring additional girls to Epstein. Similarity to an established pattern makes the account relevant for investigation. It does not independently prove that the specific events described in this interview occurred.

Photographs and Alleged Blackmail

The source alleged that Epstein possessed explicit photographs of her while she was a minor and used those images to blackmail her mother.

She believed that pressure involving the photographs contributed to her mother’s financial misconduct and later imprisonment.

The source also alleged that Epstein talked about blackmailing other people. Near the end of the interview, she claimed that Trump knew Epstein engaged in blackmail because she remembered hearing them discuss it.

The FD 302 does not contain the alleged photographs, financial records, recordings, or an independent witness statement confirming the alleged blackmail conversations.

Allegations Involving the Source’s Mother

The source described her mother as vulnerable and alleged that Epstein and another adult exploited that vulnerability.

She alleged that a man identified as Jim Atkins and an accountant named Cecil helped her mother alter real estate records. She further alleged that Atkins, Epstein, and possibly Cecil later supplied accurate records to a real estate commission, contributing to her mother’s prosecution.

The source said her mother was imprisoned for embezzlement and resumed drinking after the alleged blackmail.

The report does not contain the mother’s testimony, employment records, real estate records, regulatory proceedings, or criminal court file. Those materials would be necessary to determine which portions of this account can be independently verified.

Allegations Concerning Jim Atkins

The source identified “JIM ATKINS,” with the FBI expressly noting that the spelling was phonetic.

She described Atkins as a friend or associate of Epstein and alleged that he sexually assaulted her. She also alleged that he participated in blackmail directed at her mother.

The source believed Atkins had dated her mother. She recalled seeing him with Epstein and associated him with Ohio, an unidentified Ohio university, financial work, and a residence in the South Carolina island community where some events allegedly occurred.

Later investigative reporting located records concerning a Jimmy L. Atkins with connections to Ohio and South Carolina that appear to match some peripheral details in the source’s account. Those details may support portions of the background narrative. They do not independently prove assault, blackmail, or participation in Epstein’s crimes.

Because the FBI recorded the name phonetically, researchers should not treat the identity as conclusively established without additional records.

Other Adults and Girls

The source described encounters where other girls and older adult men were present. She alleged that one unidentified man physically and sexually abused her during an encounter that continued into the following morning.

She believed she may have suffered bruises or a head injury but said she did not receive hospital treatment.

The source did not recall directly witnessing another underage girl being assaulted. She said she was frequently kept apart from others but vaguely remembered hearing crying or screaming.

She described an unidentified adult woman around Epstein’s age who had darker skin and long dark wavy hair. The source remembered the woman as emotionally cold but did not accuse her of assault or other criminal conduct.

The description is too general to support a responsible identification.

Savannah Concert Account

The source recalled attending a Rick James concert in Savannah when she was approximately fifteen years old.

She alleged that Epstein appeared at the event, gave her alcohol, isolated her, and later left her. She said police eventually found her and that she remained in a cell until family members retrieved her.

Rick James is mentioned only as the performer associated with the concert. The source did not accuse him of knowing about or participating in Epstein’s alleged conduct.

Concert schedules, police logs, detention records, and family testimony might help test parts of this account. None of those records appears in EFTA02858481.

Allegations Concerning Donald Trump

The source alleged that Epstein transported her from South Carolina to New York or New Jersey when she was approximately thirteen to fifteen years old.

She said Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump in a tall building. She alleged that Trump asked other people to leave, attempted to sexually assault her, struck her when she resisted, and ordered that she be removed.

The source said she had two additional interactions with Trump but asked the agents to change the subject rather than describe them.

She also claimed that Trump and Epstein used demeaning expressions about girls, including “fresh meat,” “untainted,” and “not jaded.”

The source alleged that Trump knew Epstein blackmailed people. She based that assertion on a conversation she remembered hearing. She also recalled Trump discussing moving money through casinos.

These allegations are recorded in the official FBI report. The report does not include travel records, photographs, building records, contemporaneous complaints, medical evidence, or an identified eyewitness independently establishing the alleged meeting or assault.

Trump has denied wrongdoing involving Epstein and the allegations documented in this interview. Reuters reported that White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt called the accusations baseless and unsupported by credible evidence.

The Department of Justice has cautioned that the released Epstein files may contain false or sensational claims. That warning does not determine whether this source was truthful, but it reinforces the need to distinguish the existence of an allegation from proof of the allegation.

No criminal charge or judicial finding has established the allegations against Trump contained in EFTA02858481.

Chronology of the Trump Allegation

The source placed the alleged encounter during the early 1980s.

The Guardian’s examination reported that it found no public evidence establishing that Trump and Epstein knew one another during the period described by the source.

In a 2002 New York magazine interview, Trump said he had known Epstein for fifteen years. That statement would place their acquaintance around 1987.

The 2002 statement does not conclusively prove that Trump and Epstein had never met earlier. It does create a chronological question that EFTA02858481 does not resolve.

Trump and Epstein had a documented social association during later years. That later relationship does not independently corroborate an alleged encounter in the early 1980s.

Drugs and Alleged Incapacitation

The source alleged that alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine were normally available in the environments where Epstein and his associates gathered.

She believed she had been drugged during several interactions.

She also alleged that Epstein distributed LSD and asked her to give it to friends and direct them toward a party.

The report does not include medical records, toxicology evidence, seized drugs, contemporaneous complaints, or statements from the friends she referenced.

Statements Attributed to Epstein

The source said Epstein told her that he had been abused during childhood by a male relative and possibly an aunt.

This is a statement attributed to Epstein through the source’s recollection decades later. The report provides no independent evidence confirming it.

The source said she eventually understood Epstein’s conduct toward her as grooming. Her description focuses on how he allegedly used attention, secrecy, substances, photographs, fear, and access to her family to create control.

Threats and Continuing Fear

The source told agents she believed people connected to Epstein had located or monitored her throughout her life.

She asked the FBI to keep her safe.

Her expressed fear is evidence of her state of mind during the interview. It is not independent proof that Epstein, Trump, Atkins, or another person ordered surveillance or threats against her.

A later interview contains additional accounts of telephone calls and vehicle incidents that the source interpreted as intimidation. She acknowledged that the people involved did not identify themselves as representatives of Epstein or Trump. The alleged connection therefore remained unverified.

Suggested

The evidence suggests several matters that warranted investigation.

The source provided enough specific biographical and historical information to identify potential records and witnesses.
School records and photographs could help establish her age during the relevant period.
The mother’s prosecution and employment history could test parts of the account involving real estate records and Atkins.
Concert schedules and police records could potentially test the Savannah incident.
Travel, property, telephone, building, and financial records could help evaluate the alleged New York or New Jersey encounter.
The allegation that Epstein pressured a minor to bring other girls resembles recruitment methods documented in other Epstein investigations.
The source’s account of photographs and blackmail identifies a potential investigative method that appears in other allegations concerning Epstein.
The FBI’s decision to interview the source four times indicates that agents continued collecting information after the initial intake.

None of these points proves the alleged assaults. They identify possible avenues for corroboration.

Unknown

The public record does not establish:

Whether investigators authenticated the photographs provided by the source.
Whether the FBI obtained her complete school records.
Whether agents found police records connected to the Savannah concert.
Whether the FBI conclusively identified Jim Atkins.
Whether agents interviewed Atkins, Cecil, the source’s mother, family members, childhood friends, police officers, or other possible witnesses.
Whether travel or property records placed Epstein and the source together in New York or New Jersey.
Whether records placed Trump and Epstein together during the early 1980s.
Whether investigators located Polaroids or other photographs matching the source’s description.
Whether prosecutors reviewed the allegations for possible charges.
Whether statutes of limitation, jurisdiction, evidentiary problems, or other legal barriers affected the investigation.
Whether additional FBI notes, attachments, routing records, or witness reports remain unreleased.

Disputed

The allegations against Trump are disputed.

Trump and his representatives have denied wrongdoing. No court has entered findings establishing the alleged assault, and no criminal charge resulted from the source’s account.

The alleged early 1980s chronology is also disputed by the absence of known public records showing that Trump and Epstein were acquainted at that time.

Some peripheral details in the source’s account may correspond with public records involving her family and a man named Jimmy L. Atkins. Those possible matches do not resolve the disputed allegations of assault or blackmail.

The reliability of memories reported more than three decades after the alleged events also remains a legitimate evidentiary consideration. Delayed reporting and incomplete recall do not prove that an account is false, particularly in trauma cases, but they increase the need for independent records and witnesses.

What It Does Not Show

EFTA02858481 does not show that the FBI verified every allegation recorded in the report.

It does not show that the FBI reached a formal conclusion concerning the source’s credibility.

It does not prove that Epstein committed every specific act described by the source.

It does not prove that Donald Trump assaulted the source.

It does not prove that Jim Atkins assaulted the source or participated in blackmail.

It does not conclusively establish the legal identity of the man identified phonetically as Jim Atkins.

It does not prove that Cecil knowingly altered financial records.

It does not establish that the source’s mother committed financial crimes because of pressure from Epstein or his associates.

It does not contain the alleged explicit photographs or Polaroids.

It does not contain medical evidence, toxicology evidence, contemporaneous police reports, travel records, financial records, building records, or testimony from independent witnesses.

It does not establish that Epstein and Trump knew one another during the period when the alleged assault occurred.

It does not establish that threatening calls or suspicious vehicles described in later interviews were connected to Epstein, Trump, Atkins, or their associates.

It does not identify every girl, adult man, residence, hotel, or institution described by the source.

It does not establish that the unidentified adult woman participated in criminal conduct.

It does not accuse Rick James of involvement in Epstein’s activities.

It does not establish that statements attributed to Epstein about his childhood were true.

It does not show what investigative work occurred after the interview.

It does not explain why the FBI investigation ended without charges related to the source’s allegations.

It does not represent sworn courtroom testimony.

It does not represent a judicial finding.

It does not represent an FBI recommendation or conclusion.

The report’s evidentiary value lies in documenting what a protected source told federal investigators and preserving leads that could be tested. Its existence cannot be used as a substitute for corroboration.

Related Evidence

EFTA01245620: First FBI Interview

EFTA01245620 is the first known formal FBI interview with the same protected source.

The interview occurred on July 24, 2019. The source described meeting a man she knew as Jeff after responding to a babysitting opportunity while she was approximately thirteen.

She alleged that no child or wife was present at the residence and that Epstein supplied alcohol or drugs before assaulting her.

The report also records allegations involving photographs, threats, repeated encounters, pressure to bring friends, and the presence of older men.

The first interview ended after the source became emotionally distressed. Agents planned a continuation interview.

EFTA02858497: FBI Intake Report

EFTA02858497 is a two page FBI Crisis Intake report dated July 8, 2019.

It documents a call from a friend relaying allegations on behalf of an unidentified woman. The caller said the woman alleged that Trump had assaulted her approximately thirty five years earlier when she was thirteen or fourteen.

The intake was secondhand. It establishes how the allegations reached federal authorities but does not independently corroborate them.

EFTA02858491: Third FBI Interview

EFTA02858491 documents the third interview, conducted on August 20, 2019.

The source provided additional details about the alleged Trump assault, including allegations of physical violence.

She also described threatening calls and vehicle incidents that she associated with Epstein or Trump. The report notes that the callers did not identify themselves as acting for either man.

The third interview adds detail to the account. It does not constitute independent corroboration because the information came from the same source.

EFTA02858495: Fourth FBI Interview

EFTA02858495 documents the fourth interview, conducted on October 16, 2019.

The source disclosed that she was working with attorneys concerning a possible civil case. She questioned whether authorities could take meaningful action because the alleged events occurred decades earlier.

When agents asked about Trump, she expressed concern about continuing if nothing could be done. The interview ended without a complete new account.

EFTA00095751: FBI Disclosure Index

EFTA00095751 helps establish the organization of the protected source’s records under FBI subserial 3501.045.

The index is relevant when tracing the four interview reports and identifying material that may have been missing from earlier public releases.

Handwritten Interview Notes

The EpsteinWiki Sleuth Report on the handwritten FBI interview notes examines handwritten material associated with the interview series.

The handwritten notes reportedly contain information corresponding with the formal FD 302 reports. They may help researchers compare the agents’ original notes with the completed summaries.

Handwritten notes are not necessarily verbatim transcripts. They may contain abbreviations, uncertain spellings, incomplete thoughts, and preliminary impressions.

Unredacted versions reportedly circulated outside the official DOJ production and exposed identifying information about the protected source and private people connected to her. EpsteinWiki does not link to or reproduce that identifying material.

Trump and Epstein Relationship Evidence

The EpsteinWiki Trump Epstein Allegations page separates documented association, reported corroboration of peripheral details, disputed allegations, and unproven claims.

The Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Timeline provides chronological context for their documented social relationship.

The documented later relationship between Trump and Epstein is relevant context. It is not independent proof of the early 1980s encounter alleged in EFTA02858481.

EpsteinWiki Evidence Framework

The EpsteinWiki Evidence Framework explains why an authentic government record may contain allegations that remain unverified.

EFTA02858481 is authentic as an FBI record. Its authenticity establishes provenance. It does not establish the truth of every statement recorded inside it.

Reported Public Record Corroboration

Island Packet reporting examined South Carolina connections and public records related to portions of the source’s account.

A follow up Island Packet investigation examined additional biographical and legal details.

The reporting indicates that some peripheral details may correspond with historical records. Peripheral corroboration can support the conclusion that parts of the source’s background account were grounded in real people or events. It does not independently establish the alleged assaults.

Congressional Inquiry Concerning a Related Civil Claim

A House Oversight Democrats statement discusses conflicting information concerning whether a related civil claimant received a settlement.

The corresponding March 13, 2026 congressional letter states that Richard Kahn initially indicated a settlement had been paid, while counsel later provided inconsistent or uncertain information.

The available congressional record does not conclusively establish the existence, amount, terms, or recipient of any settlement connected to this source.

Questions Raised

Did the FBI authenticate the photographs and school information supplied by the protected source?
Did investigators obtain records confirming her age during each alleged encounter?
Did the FBI locate the source’s mother’s criminal, employment, regulatory, and real estate records?
Did those records establish any connection among the mother, Epstein, Atkins, and the accountant identified as Cecil?
Did investigators conclusively identify the man recorded phonetically as Jim Atkins?
Did agents interview Atkins about the allegations?
Did agents identify and interview Cecil?
Did investigators interview the source’s mother, relatives, childhood friends, police officers, or other people named during the four interviews?
Did the FBI locate police or detention records connected to the Savannah concert incident?
Can historical concert schedules provide a reliable date for that incident?
Did investigators obtain travel records connecting Epstein to South Carolina during the period described?
Did investigators obtain records showing whether the source traveled to New York or New Jersey with Epstein?
Did investigators locate building, visitor, telephone, transportation, or security records connected to the alleged Trump encounter?
Is there evidence establishing when Trump and Epstein first met?
Did the FBI investigate the chronological conflict between the source’s early 1980s account and the later publicly documented Trump and Epstein relationship?
Did investigators search Epstein’s properties or stored materials for Polaroids matching the source’s description?
Did the FBI compare the alleged photographs with evidence collected from Epstein’s residences?
Did investigators identify the older men described in the interview?
Did investigators identify the adult woman described by the source?
Did the source provide the names of girls she said she introduced to Epstein?
Were any of those girls interviewed?
Did investigators examine the allegation that Epstein supplied LSD and directed the source to distribute it?
Did investigators find independent evidence of blackmail involving the source’s mother?
Did investigators find evidence supporting the claim that Epstein discussed blackmail with Trump?
Did the FBI investigate the source’s allegations about casino transactions?
What steps did agents take after the second interview?
What additional information was collected during the third and fourth interviews?
Did prosecutors review the allegations for possible federal or state charges?
Did statutes of limitation prevent prosecution?
Did jurisdictional problems affect the investigation?
Were investigators unable to obtain sufficient corroborating evidence?
Was the source informed that the investigation had ended?
Why were Interviews 2, 3, and 4 coded as duplicates?
Who discovered the coding error?
When did the Department of Justice first determine that the continuation reports had not been released?
Are handwritten notes, attachments, photographs, routing slips, or additional investigative reports still missing from the official production?
Were the source’s safety concerns formally evaluated?
Did the FBI investigate the threatening calls or vehicle incidents described in later interviews?
Were any related civil claims settled, dismissed, withdrawn, or otherwise resolved?
Why has the government not released a clear account of which parts of the source’s allegations were investigated, corroborated, contradicted, or left unresolved?

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