Editor's note: An original version of this article contained an incomplete quote from the New Yorker. It was updated to provide full context
Sarah Ransome, a whistleblower and alleged victim of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, said in a series of emails in 2016 that former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were among the pedophile's core clients, according to a new batch of court documents released Monday.
Ransome also claimed that tycoon Richard Branson and Prince Andrew were regular clients of the tycoon and that Epstein had videos of the sexual encounters of all of these political and business figures.
Specifically, Ransome said one of her friends told her that she had had sex with Trump on a regular basis.
"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's alleged relationship with Trump in the email. "I also know she had sexual relations with Trump at Jeffery's NY mansion on regular occasions."
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In another email, she stated: "[M]y friend had sexual intercourse with Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson, sex tapes were in fact filmed on each separate occasion... I eventually managed to persuade her to send me some of the video footage which she kept, implicating all three men... I have backed up the footage on several USB sticks and have securely sent them to various throughout Europe."
In other emails, Ransome calls Trump a "pedophile" and Hillary Clinton an "evil bitch." She also stated that she would not allow anyone to be elected president in 2016.
However, in 2016, Ransome herself retracted her statements.
According to a New Yorker magazine article, Ransome allegedly made up that he had the tapes to warn about Epstein's crimes.
"Ransome was another imperfect witness. In the fall of 2016, he had suggested to the New York Post that he had sex tapes of a half-dozen prominent people, including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, but he could not provide the tapes when asked. (Ransome told me that he had made up the tapes to draw attention to Epstein's behavior, and to make him believe that he had 'evidence that would come out if he wronged me,')" reads the report by journalist Connie Bruck.
Likewise, the New York Post revealed that the complainant, in an email from October 2016, said: "I would like to retract everything I have said to you and walk away from this."
Ransome never showed the public the alleged tapes given to them by her friend, who was also not identified.
Trump advisor Steven Cheung defended his client's innocence, stating that Ransome's words had already been denied: "These baseless accusations have been fully retracted because they are simply false and have no merit."
Ransome's emails had been archived in a defamation lawsuit filed by Epstein's victim Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, the pedophile's mistress and pimp.
The lawsuit, dating back to 2015, was settled privately between Giuffre and Maxwell, who is now serving 20 years in prison in Florida for her role in Epstein's crimes.
The data and names appearing in the lawsuit have been declassified since the middle of last week thanks to a federal judge's order in New York.
