Democrats in Congress have released a message they claim was sent by US President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday, the BBC reports.
Lawyers representing Epstein's estate submitted documents to the House Oversight Committee after receiving a subpoena last month.
Democratic members of the committee then posted the letter on the X network today.
This came after the Wall Street Journal published details of the message in July. Trump then called it a "fake thing" and denied that he had written it.
"Those are not my words, that's not the way I speak. Also, I don't draw pictures," he said at the time.
The signed message reads: "Happy birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret."
The committee last month issued a legal order to the executors of Epstein's estate to produce a series of documents, including a "birthday book" containing a message purportedly from Trump.
Trump filed a lawsuit against Wall Street Journal reporters, publishers and executives, including News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch, after the paper published a story over the summer.
The newspaper's publisher, Dow Jones, said at the time that it had "full confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our reporting."
The BBC has contacted the White House for comment, as well as Trump's lawyers.
On the X network, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budovich posted several images of Trump's signature today.
"It's time for @newscorp to open his checkbook, that's not his signature. DEFAMATORY!" Budovic wrote.
The Wall Street Journal reported in July that Epstein associate Gillian Maxwell created a birthday book for the financier in 2003.
It contained contributions from various acquaintances of Epstein, including a message purporting to bear the name of Trump, who was his friend at the time.
Trump and Epstein were on friendly terms for years, but the US president said he parted ways with him in the early 2000s after the financier kidnapped workers from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Epstein was first criminally charged in 2006 in Florida, for pimping for prostitution, a state crime.
According to official figures, Epstein committed suicide in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
His former girlfriend and associate Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for aiding and abetting his human trafficking ring for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
Epstein reached a plea agreement with prosecutors in 2008 after the parents of a XNUMX-year-old girl told Florida police that Epstein had abused their daughter at his home in Palm Beach.
Photos of the girls were found around the house, and he was convicted of soliciting a minor into prostitution, for which he was registered as a sex offender.
However, he made a plea deal with the prosecution and avoided a long prison sentence.
Eleven years later, he was charged with running a network of underage girls for sex.
He died in prison while awaiting trial, and his death was ruled a suicide.
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