The FBI received a tip in October 2020 that appears to be from an unidentified female who said she had information about a "Jeffrey Epstein party" in 2000. The person's information is redacted in the FBI's summary of the tip, which is included in the new files.

The woman alleged that someone named Ghislaine Lisa Villeneuve brought her to the party. Later, someone said that Donald Trump had invited everyone to Mar-A-Lago, according to the tipster. The tipster "told Villeneuve she wanted to go, but Villeneuve told [the tipster] it wasn't that kind of party, it was for prostitutes," the document says.

The tipster told the FBI she hadn't spoken to Villeneuve since 2002, according to the bureau document.

It's unclear whether the FBI considered the tip credible or did any further investigating. No one with Villeneuve's name appears to have been connected to Epstein in the past or accused of wrongdoing.

The Mar-a-Lago club was subpoenaed to produce documents in the case of United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell on Nov. 29, 2021, according to a copy of the subpoena included in the new files.

The subpoena demanded "Any and all employment records relating to [redacted]."

It is not clear who appeared on the club's behalf.

Maxwell, a longtime associate of Epstein, was convicted of sex trafficking in 2021 and is serving a 20-year prison sentence.

The Justice Department said in a post on X Tuesday morning that some of the documents in the latest release "contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election."

"To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already," the DOJ said.

The Justice Department said it had released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to Epstein and was releasing the documents "out of our commitment to the law and transparency," while citing its adherence to the required protections for survivors of Epstein's abuse. 

Upon receiving more flight logs in 2020, an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York emailed someone (likely a colleague) to say that Donald Trump flew on Epstein's plane "many more times" than was publicly known. The names of both the sender and the recipient are redacted.

"For your situational awareness, wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware)," the email says. 

The email says he is "listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including at least four flights on which Ghislaine Maxwell was also present." 

The email also says Trump took at least one flight with Epstein and a 20-year-old, whose name is redacted, and two flights with "women who would be possible witnesses in a Maxwell case."

"We've just finished reviewing the full records (more than 100 pages of very small script) and didn't want any of this to be a surprise down the road," the assistant U.S. attorney wrote.

The president has not been accused of wrongdoing. While he and Epstein ran in the same social circles in New York and Palm Beach from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, Mr. Trump has said the two had a falling out around 2004 and had not spoken in the years leading up to Epstein's 2019 death.

The Justice Department's newest release of files on Epstein appears to be its largest to date, with upwards of 11,000 files, many of which are multiple pages. 

The release includes court records, emails, photos, news clippings, spreadsheets, audio and hundreds of video files.

President Trump is mentioned several times, though many of those instances are in news clippings that were shared among DOJ employees. 

The data set also appears to include FBI documents, internal Justice Department communications, court subpoenas, other legal documents and records related to Epstein's 2019 death in federal custody, according to an initial review by CBS News.

President Trump said Monday that last week's release of thousands of photos from the government's files on Jeffrey Epstein risked ensnaring "highly respected" people with no connection to the late sex offender's crimes. 

Asked what he thought about the emergence of photos of former President Bill Clinton, Mr. Trump called it "terrible" and said he's "always gotten along" with the former president — and argued other people who appear in the photos could be unfairly tarred.

"I don't like the pictures of Bill Clinton being shown. I don't like the pictures of other people being shown. I think it's a terrible thing," the president told reporters. "I think Bill Clinton's a big boy, he can handle it. But you probably have pictures being exposed of other people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago ... and they're highly respected bankers and lawyers and others."

The president said Epstein was "all over Palm Beach" and many people crossed paths with him.

Epstein was known for cultivating relationships with the rich and powerful, and he socialized with both Clinton and Mr. Trump at various points — though neither man has been accused of any wrongdoing.

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A spokesperson for former President Bill Clinton on Monday pushed the Justice Department to release "any remaining records" in the Jeffrey Epstein files that mention Clinton or include a photo of him, arguing the former president has nothing to hide.

Several photos of Clinton emerged Friday in the government's initial release of files collected during its investigations into Epstein, including an image of Clinton sitting in a hot tub with an unidentified person. He has not been accused of wrongdoing.

Clinton spokesperson Angel Ureña said Monday that Attorney General Pam Bondi should "immediately release" anything else it has on the former president, including photos, court records and internal Justice Department documents.

"[W]hat the Department of Justice has released so far, and the manner in which it did so, makes one thing clear: someone or something is being protected. We do not know whom, what or why," Ureña said. "But we do know this: We need no such protection."

It's not clear whether the Justice Department has any as-yet unreleased files that mention Clinton.

Clinton's representatives have acknowledged for years that he traveled with Epstein on multiple occasions, but say the former president had no knowledge of the late sex offender's crimes. On Friday, Ureña accused the government of trying to scapegoat Clinton.

The Justice Department released a massive new trove of records on Jeffrey Epstein early Tuesday.

The initial batch of files came on Friday, Dec. 19, and consisted of five data sets. 

The first data set was the largest of the batch. It included 3,158 photos of what appeared to be Epstein's properties in Manhattan and the Virgin Islands, apparently taken by investigators.

The second set included 574 photos of Epstein's travels and included some images of prominent figures. The third set included 67 PDF files, mostly inventories of photos found on CDs and DVDs and in scrapbooks. Many of those files included graphic material that was redacted. 

The fourth batch of documents included 152 PDF files of call logs, phone records, handwritten notes and police files. The fifth group consisted of 120 images of hard drives, folders and boxes, apparently taken by investigators.

The final two batches of documents were released on Saturday, Dec. 20: the sixth data set featured 13 files of grand jury presentations and interview transcripts, and the seventh includes 17 more files from grand jury proceedings, court records and an internal Justice Department transcript of an interview with the U.S. attorney involved in an earlier federal investigation into Epstein in the mid-2000s.

The Justice Department is facing continued backlash over its partial releases of the Epstein files, with lawmakers and survivors denouncing the limited scope of the disclosures.

A group of survivors called on Congress to hold hearings and take legal action to demand compliance with the law.

"It is alarming that the United States Department of Justice, the very agency tasked with upholding the law, has violated the law, both by withholding massive quantities of documents, and by failing to redact survivor identities," they said in a statement Monday. 

The survivors said the government released "a fraction of the files," and said the material that was disclosed was "riddled with abnormal and extreme redactions with no explanation."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced a resolution Monday that would direct the upper chamber to "initiate legal actions" against the Justice Department to demand that it comply with the law. The New York Democrat is expected to force a vote on the measure when the Senate reconvenes in the new year.  

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