FBI interviewed Hilton Head Epstein accuser four times, but most documents are missing
Newly released records tied to the federal investigation into Jeffery Epstein include a woman’s allegation that she was first assaulted by the disgraced financier as a teenager on Hilton Head Island in the 1980s.
But key FBI interview summaries connected to her claims were not included in the trove of documents released by the Justice Department. This included more than 50 pages of unreleased investigative material, the New York Times reported.
Three of the four interview summaries tied to the woman’s broader claims were not included in the 3.5 million documents released on Jan. 30, according to an index that catalogues dozens of pages connected to her case number that are not accounted for in the public release.
The missing documents were first reported by NPR, the New York Times and independent journalist Roger Sollenberger.
The Justice Department has maintained that all documents have been produced, unless a document falls within one of three categories: duplicates, privileged or part of an ongoing federal investigation.
The one publicly-available interview summary describes accusations against Epstein. During that interview, conducted on July 24, 2019, a woman describes in detail the violence she said she experienced as a young teenager on Hilton Head at the hands of Epstein in the 1980s, as previously reported by The Island Packet.
She told FBI investigators that her mother, who worked in real estate, asked her whether she would like to start a babysitting business when she was 13. Thinking her daughter would be a great babysitter, the woman’s mother sent a flyer out to renters and owners, telling them about her daughter’s babysitting services, documents show.
Soon after, her mother received a call from an interested man, who claimed he and his wife needed some extra childcare help at night. The woman, then only a teenager, said she arrived at the man’s home: a condo in the Sea Pines Plantation area.
The man, whom she came to know as “Jeff,” appeared to be alone in the home, she told the FBI. She wondered where his wife and children were. But she never saw them.
Epstein offered her cocaine, alcohol and marijuana, the interview summary says. After taking the drugs and alcohol, she told agents, everything got “blurry” and “things slowed,” which later caused her to think something else had been slipped into her drink.
Then, the sexual abuse began, she said in the interview. Her story includes graphic accounts that span across several interactions with Epstein in the house, with allegations ranging from forced oral sex to rape, among other violent abuses.
The woman told investigators that she did not know Epstein’s full identity until 2019, when a friend sent her a photograph of him. It was then she recognized the person who she said had raped her. The woman told the agents she had the photograph on her phone, and they noted in the memo that it was a widely distributed photo of Epstein and President Donald Trump.
She granted permission for the agents to take a photograph of the image, but asked them to crop out everyone who wasn’t Epstein. When asked why, the lawyer told investigators that she was “concerned about implicating additional individuals, and specifically any that were well known, due to fear of retaliation,” according to the memo.
The claims in the released FBI interview are the same ones made in a 2019 federal lawsuit filed by a Jane Doe, citing abuse by Epstein in the Hilton Head area around 1984 when she was around 13 years old.
The lawsuit says that Epstein’s abuse “continued across state lines” and that she was “brutally and forcibly battered, assaulted and raped” by other “prominent, wealthy” men she met through Epstein in New York.
The lawsuit claims are similar to an account described in a 2025 memo in the Epstein files, mentioning an Epstein victim and an alleged violent sexual encounter with Trump when the victim was 13 or 14, “approximately 35 years ago.” The woman had a connection to South Carolina, the memo said, and the alleged encounter with Trump happened in New Jersey.
The same alleged encounter with Trump is mentioned in a 21-page presentation created by the FBI in 2025 and released by the justice department, summarizing investigations into Epstein and outlining allegations of sexual misconduct against prominent figures, including Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton. The lead was sent along to the FBI’s Washington office for an interview, the same place where the Hilton Head victim had her interview.
The Island Packet was not able to independently confirm whether Trump is implicated in the missing documents. But the Times, among other news outlets, reported that the missing files include allegations made by the woman against both Epstein and Trump from when she was a minor.
On one occasion, the lawsuit reads, one of the prominent men “forcibly slapped” the girl in the face after she was “forced to perform oral sex on him.” The complaint specifies she was a minor throughout the course of these claims.
This claim is similar to an alleged encounter outlined in the presentation released as part of the Epstein files. According to the presentation, Epstein introduced a victim to Trump who “subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out.”
The alleged assault took place in the early-mid 1980s when the victim was “approximately 13-15 years old,” the presentation said.
The documents do not include any assessment about the credibility of the accusation by the FBI.
