WASHINGTON — Newly released Justice Department documents contain disturbing allegations from an Epstein victim who claims she gave birth to a child fathered by the deceased financier when she was a teenager, with the infant removed from her care within minutes of delivery as part of what she described as his ambition to create a genetically superior bloodline.
The victim’s diary entry, buried within the three million pages of materials published Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice, alleges she delivered a baby girl around 2002 when she would have been 16 or 17 years old. The woman expressed profound discomfort with what she characterized as Epstein’s objective to establish a superior gene pool through selective reproduction—a concept she compared to Nazi ideology.
“Why me? It makes no sense. Why my hair and eye colour?” the victim wrote in the diary entry, questioning the criteria by which Epstein selected her for his alleged reproductive scheme.
The victim’s attorneys at Wigdor LLP shared the diary with federal prosecutors investigating Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. The document includes a pregnancy ultrasound scan dated to 20 weeks’ gestation alongside the words: “She is gone and she won’t be coming back.”
The woman described the birth in harrowing detail, writing: “A shot and those rod like things had a hook and so much pain. Ghislaine said to push all the pain away.” She recounted observing “between her fingers this tiny head and body in the doctors hands. It reached its tiny arm up and had a tiny foot.”
The victim wrote that she heard Maxwell say in the hallway that the baby “was beautiful,” prompting her anguished response: “SHE WAS. Not is. She was a beautiful girl! I heard her! Where is she? Why did she stop whimpering?”
The woman later characterized herself as feeling like “nothing but your property and incubator,” asserting “there is no respect for me as a human.” She elaborated on Epstein’s alleged genetic ambitions, writing: “The piano and music comments are made to convince me this is right and will create perfect offspring … I don’t think it works that way and its making me hate playing together.”
This victim subsequently filed a lawsuit in 2023 under the pseudonym Jane Doe against Leon Black, former chief executive of Apollo Global Management and an Epstein associate. The complaint alleges Black raped her at Epstein’s residence in an assault that caused her to bleed. Black has denied the allegations and the case remains ongoing.
The document release also revealed a September 21, 2011 email from Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, congratulating Epstein on the birth of a “baby boy” after his release from prison for child sex offenses. Ferguson offered him her “love, friendship and congratulations” after hearing the news from “The Duke,” presumably referring to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, her former husband.
Ferguson appeared to use the news as pretext for reestablishing contact with Epstein despite his criminal conviction. “Don’t know if you’re still on this bbm [BlackBerry Messenger] but have heard from The Duke that you have had a baby boy,” she wrote, adding: “Even though you never kept in touch, I am still here with love, friendship and congratulations on your baby boy.” The message was signed “Sarah xx.”
The potential existence of this son—who would now be approximately 14 years old—has never been publicly confirmed. Epstein’s will, drafted before his August 2019 death in a New York prison cell, did not mention any offspring.
One undated video from Friday’s release appears to show a DNA paternity test on a table at Epstein’s seven-story Manhattan mansion, though the video provides no definitive confirmation of test results or purposes.
Email correspondences between Epstein and Maxwell leaked to Bloomberg last year suggested the pair discussed undergoing fertility treatments. On October 20, 2005, police executed a search warrant at Epstein’s Palm Beach residence. Days after the raid, Maxwell sent Epstein detailed instructions regarding sperm donation for shared fertility treatment.
“You can do the sample at home,” Maxwell wrote, specifying that it “has to be within 90 mins of my procedure” and that “all the ejaculate must be collected.”
In a 2007 email to Epstein—shortly before he signed a controversial non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors—Maxwell provided additional detailed instructions for another fertility procedure. This correspondence occurred around the time Maxwell claimed to have departed Epstein’s orbit and had begun a relationship with technology billionaire Ted Waitt.
“Your cup + instructions are in the oval room… The sample has to be dropped off at 10 + you HAVE to fill out the forms – I would have filled them for you but I was not sure what you wanted to put on them Let me know if you need/want me to do anything,” Maxwell wrote.
The New York Times previously disclosed in 2019 that Epstein confided in scientists about a scheme to propagate the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his New Mexico ranch. Sources once close to Epstein revealed that the financier surrounded himself with academics over the years, sharing with them his plan to develop what he characterized as a superior race of humans carrying his genetic material.
Epstein hosted dinner parties where scientists mingled with attractive, college-educated women he regarded as potential candidates to bear his offspring. He told one associate that upon his death, he wanted his head and genitals frozen and donated to charities supporting transhumanism—the belief that humanity can further evolve through scientific advancement.
Dozens of acquaintances, including one former defense attorney, told the Times that Epstein’s reproductive ambitions were fueled by fascination with eugenics—the discredited ideology that human populations can be improved through selective breeding. This philosophy, which gained prominence in the early 20th century and was infamously embraced by Nazi Germany, has been thoroughly rejected by modern science and ethics as both scientifically invalid and morally abhorrent.
Epstein cultivated relationships within elite scientific communities and involved himself in numerous research pursuits. According to his inbox records, one of his final book purchases included “The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children.”
Sources indicated Epstein modeled his alleged baby ranch concept on the Repository for Germinal Choice, a controversial sperm bank established to be stocked with genetic material from Nobel laureates in an effort to enhance the human gene pool. Only one Nobel Prize winner ever admitted contributing sperm to the repository, which discontinued operations in 1999.
Epstein’s last-known girlfriend was Karyna Shuliak, to whom he reportedly expressed intentions to bequeath his private island Little Saint James, $50 million in cash, and his Manhattan townhouse. Whether these plans were executed or legally enforceable remains unclear.
The correspondence from Ferguson and the victim’s diary entry are among three million pages of documents, 180,000 images and 2,000 videos posted publicly by the Justice Department on Friday. The publication came six weeks after the December 19 deadline established by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, legislation that passed Congress and became law in November mandating comprehensive disclosure of all government files related to Epstein’s crimes and associations.
The materials released Friday conclude what Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche characterized as the administration’s planned document production under the transparency legislation, though congressional Democrats have questioned whether all materials have been disclosed as legally required.
The victim testimony regarding forced childbirth and infant removal raises profound questions about the full scope of Epstein’s criminal conduct and the potential complicity of others in facilitating his alleged reproductive schemes. If the allegations prove accurate, they suggest systematic exploitation extending beyond the sexual abuse for which Epstein was convicted, encompassing forced pregnancy and separation of mothers from newborns.
The involvement Maxwell is alleged to have played—both in the described birth and in fertility treatment coordination—adds additional dimensions to her already documented role in Epstein’s abuse network. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for sex trafficking and conspiracy charges related to her facilitation of Epstein’s recruitment and abuse of underage girls.
The eugenics ideology apparently motivating Epstein’s reproductive ambitions connects his personal criminal conduct to broader historical patterns of powerful men believing themselves genetically superior and entitled to propagate their DNA regardless of consent or the autonomy of women they exploited. This framing positions Epstein’s alleged actions within longstanding traditions of reproductive coercion that have victimized vulnerable women throughout history.
For the victim who authored the diary entries, the alleged forced separation from her infant daughter represents trauma compounding the sexual abuse she endured. The psychological impact of carrying a pregnancy resulting from exploitation, experiencing childbirth under coercive circumstances, and having one’s child immediately removed creates layers of harm that extend far beyond typical understandings of sex trafficking.
The Ferguson email raises questions about what members of elite social circles knew regarding Epstein’s personal life and reproductive activities, and whether knowledge of children existed within networks that maintained relationships with him even after his criminal conviction. Her apparent knowledge of a baby boy born around 2011—two years after Epstein’s initial conviction and release from custody—suggests information about his personal life circulated among associates despite his status as registered sex offender.
As investigators, journalists and advocacy organizations continue reviewing the massive document release, additional revelations about Epstein’s criminal network and the extent of his exploitation may emerge. The diary testimony and fertility treatment correspondence provide new evidence of how his wealth and connections enabled conduct that victimized women in ways extending beyond the sexual abuse charges for which he faced prosecution.
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