Convicted sex trafficker, Ghislaine Maxwell, met with Department of Justice officials for a second day. The meetings with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanchie took place in Tallahassee, where Maxwell is serving time for her conviction of luring and grooming teen girls for sexual abuse.

The letter, which the newspaper claims was sent on Epstein's 50th birthday, has been decried by Trump as a "fake". In a post, Trump said that the newspaper and owner Rupert Murdoch "were warned directly" they would be sued if they printed the story, describing it as "false, malicious, and defamatory".