Anouska De Georgiou, a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking network, says she met former President Donald Trump “on several occasions” after being introduced by Ghislaine Maxwell, one of Epstein’s closest associates.
Speaking in an interview with BBC Newsnight, De Georgiou—who was a friend of the late Virginia Giuffre—said Maxwell facilitated the introductions and framed them in the same context as her trafficking to Epstein. “Ghislaine Maxwell did introduce me to him, and she introduced me to him with a clear message of my being with him in the same way that she had trafficked me and brought me to Jeffrey Epstein,” she said.
Asked how Trump behaved during those encounters, De Georgiou emphasized that she could only speak from her own experience. “This is in no way to negate any other experiences that anyone else might have had with him,” she said, adding that “at no time did President Trump behave with any impropriety with me.”
Renewed attention on Trump’s past social connections has intensified scrutiny of his interactions within Epstein’s circle. However, Trump has not been implicated in any criminal investigations tied to the Epstein case. Epstein died in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, and Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in the trafficking operation.
De Georgiou has previously described how she became drawn into Epstein’s world. In a 2019 interview with NBC News, she recounted first meeting Epstein in London through elite social connections, followed by travel to his properties, including his private Caribbean island and residences in New York City and Paris.
“By the time I was being abused, it was too late,” she said at the time. She described the social pressure surrounding Epstein’s environment as a closed system of approval, explaining that a culture of compliance made it difficult to speak out. “There was this microcosm of acceptance—of ‘yes’ people—who acted like this was normal,” she said. “If you’re a young person walking into a mansion or someone’s island and everyone there behaves as though it’s fine, it’s hard to be the one to say something is wrong.”
Trump appears in De Georgiou’s story through both her recent remarks and earlier reporting in the U.K. press. The Times of London reported in 2019 that Trump had flown De Georgiou and Maxwell to Florida for a weekend and arranged for her to stay in an apartment he owned in New York. According to the report, De Georgiou met Trump in 1999, when he was dating Melania Trump.
“We went for dinner a few times,” De Georgiou was quoted as saying at the time. “We’re friends now and I attended his wedding. He’s adorable. He has been so kind to me.”
During that period, De Georgiou—then a model from a prominent British family—was part of celebrity social circles and was linked to figures such as Mick Hucknall of Simply Red, actor David Hasselhoff, and comedian Russell Brand.
Now, De Georgiou is calling for greater transparency from the U.S. government. She has urged survivors and lawmakers to press the Justice Department to release the Epstein files in full, arguing that public disclosure is essential to holding perpetrators accountable.
Following heightened scrutiny of Prince Andrew’s ties to Epstein, De Georgiou said she wanted Trump to take decisive action. She called on him “to take a leaf out of King Charles’ book and just make it happen,” referring to the release of documents. “Make it happen to release the files,” she said, “and let everybody see what there is.”
In response to mounting pressure, Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Trump signed into law. The legislation requires the Justice Department to release all unclassified documents related to the Epstein investigations by December 19.
So far, the disclosures have fallen short of expectations, consisting largely of heavily redacted material. Lawmakers have warned that they may pursue legal action against Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice if more complete, unredacted records are not produced—prolonging public efforts to fully uncover the scope of Epstein’s network and those connected to it.
