Epstein confessed to being a father, documents reveal

Jeffrey Epstein pictured with a woman holding a baby. Photo / US Department of Justice

Jeffrey Epstein confessed to one of his victims that he had become a father, files released by the US Department of Justice suggest.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) documents detail how a woman claims she was shown a photograph in his New York home of the “mother” of the late paedophile’s child.

The FBI notes, which are dated January 2020, record claims made by a woman who said she was sexually assaulted by Epstein for years from the age of 16.

They say: “In another suite of his residence, there was a picture of a blonde woman on the beach.

“Epstein told [redacted] that this was the mother of his child.”

The woman claimed to have met the late financier as a teenage model in 2005.

The notes go on to detail how the paedophile then showed the girl a “torso sculpture” of the same woman [alleged mother].

“There was a torso sculpture, like a mold – EPSTEIN said this mold was of this woman,” the notes read.

“EPSTEIN told [redacted] that this woman was perfect. EPSTEIN told [redacted] that her husband will be very lucky.”

It is not the first time it has been suggested that the disgraced financier fathered children.

Earlier this week, The Times reported that another victim claimed to have given birth to a baby girl around 2002, when she was 16 or 17.

The documents suggested that the child was taken from her mother 10 minutes after the birth, which the woman alleged was supervised by Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend.

“She was born, I heard her cries!” the victim wrote. “I saw this tiny head and body in between the doctor’s hands. Ghislaine said she was beautiful. Where is she?”.

The woman added: “I do not want to be tied to Jeffrey for the rest of my life! Playing the piano well is not a good reason to think someone has good genes or should have a baby! I am too young and he is too old!

“The piano and music comments are made to convince me this is right and will create perfect offspring he [Epstein] calls them ‘superior gene pool?’.

“Why me?? My eye colour, my eye colour? I miss the person I was before I was made into what feels like a human incubator.”

Meanwhile, the Daily Mail has reported several accounts of Epstein asking women to carry his child.

Among the millions of documents released by the FBI, one shows Epstein hugging a woman in his New York home while she cradled a baby in her arms.

Epstein’s brother has previously insisted the late financier never had a child.

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