Trump denied that he had ever written such a letter or, indeed, drawn anything ever. “I never wrote a picture in my life,” he said, adding later on Truth Social, “I don’t draw pictures,” and that he was going to sue Journal owner Rupert Murdoch’s “ass off.”

One person who has never forgotten the victims is Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown, whose 2019 reporting on the original criminal case reopened the scandal and led to Epstein’s arrest. In her reporting, Brown highlighted the voices of victims such as Virginia Giuffre.