Buried in the tranche of more than three million Jeffrey Epstein files, is an email signed ‘Love, Melania’ that appears to be addressed to Ghislaine Maxwell.
The names of the sender and recipient of the October 23, 2002, email are redacted.
The message begins: ‘Dear G! How are you? Nice story about JE in NY mag. You look great on the picture.’
That week, New York Magazine ran a now-infamous story headlined: ‘Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery.’
The article featured a full-page color illustration of Epstein grinning alongside Bill Clinton in front of his private jet, as the actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker board the aircraft.
The piece included a photo of Maxwell with Epstein at a black tie event, as well as a photo of Donald Trump and the financier chatting to Belgian supermodel Ingrid Seynhaeve at a Victoria’s Secret party.
The email continues: ‘I know you are very busy flying all over the world. How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY. Have a great time!’
It is signed affectionately: ‘Love, Melania.’
Donald Trump and his then-girlfriend Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000
The message from October 23, 2002, begins: ‘Dear G! How are you? Nice story about JE in NY mag. You look great on the picture.’ That week, New York Magazine ran a now-infamous story headlined: ‘Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery’
The NY Mag article also featured a photo of Donald Trump and the financier chatting to Belgian supermodel Ingrid Seynhaeve at a Victoria’s Secret party at Manhattan’s Laura Belle club in April 1997
It is not clear if the email was sent by the First Lady. The Daily Mail has contacted the White House for comment.
The Trumps, Maxwell and Epstein mixed in the same circles from Manhattan to Mar-a-Lago through the 1990s and early 2000s.
A well-known photo shows the President with his then-girlfriend Melania Knauss, Maxwell and Epstein at his Palm Beach club in 2000.
Documents released by the Justice Department on Friday show that a writer called ‘G. Max’ later replied to ‘Melania’.
‘Sweet pea,’ she wrote. ‘Thanks for your message. Actually plans changed again and I am now on my way back to NY. I leave again on Fri so I still do not think I have time to see you sadly. I will try and call though.’
Maxwell signed off with her initial and a kiss: ‘Keep well. Gx.’
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the release of more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images related to Epstein on Friday.
Ghislaine Maxwell attends a Theo Fennell party at the Cafe Royal, London, November 10, 1996
The piece included a photo of Maxwell with Epstein at a black tie event, as well as a photo of Donald Trump and the financier chatting to Belgian supermodel Ingrid Seynhaeve at a Victoria’s Secretparty
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on vacation in a previously released DOJ dump
Donald Trump and Melania Trump attend the world premiere of Amazon MGM’s ‘Melania’ at The Trump-Kennedy Center on Thursday
The files, posted on the DOJ’s website, include some of the several million pages of records that officials withheld from an initial release of documents in December.
Congressional Democrats, who have been key to pushing for the release of case files on Epstein, say that Friday’s release is just half of the files that have been collected.
Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 19, following a civil war within the Republican Party over the records which the President branded a Democrat ‘hoax.’
The law requires the government to open its files on the convicted sex offender as well as his confidant and onetime girlfriend, Maxwell.
Epstein was found hanged in a New York jail cell in August 2019, a month after he was indicted on federal sex trafficking charges.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for recruiting underage girls for Epstein.
