A former Sports Illustrated model who was romantically involved with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein claimed Friday that her ex and President Donald Trump were quite close, adding more to the ongoing controversy surrounding the Epstein files.

A Wall Street Journal report late Thursday added new scrutiny to President Donald Trump’s relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Justice Department said unsealing grand jury transcripts related to Epstein's case is necessary given "longstanding and legitimate" public interest in the case.

In early 2024, football quarterback Aaron Rodgers made headlines when he falsely suggested that Kimmel's name would appear in court documents associated with Epstein. Kimmel threatened legal action against Rodgers at the time.

Donald Trump was friendly for at least 15 years with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019.

President Donald Trump's name was mentioned nine times across the hundreds of pages in the “phase one" release of the Epstein files.

On Friday, Trump sued The Wall Street Journal and News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch after the paper dropped a bombshell report about a birthday message Trump allegedly sent to Epstein in 2003. In the birthday card, Trump drew a nude woman and ended the message with: “Happy Birthday—and may every day be another wonderful secret.”

For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein’s first arrest.

President Donald Trump has struggled to meet demands he helped stoked for information about Jeffrey Epstein's criminal case.

"All the work that we did to tell the world what happened to us, it’s all being erased," victim Danielle Bensky said.