MELANIA’S SECRET MESSAGE: What really lay behind that ‘Love’ sign-off to Ghislaine Maxwell?
A gushing email exchange between first lady Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was included in the latest dump of Epstein files.
In the first message from 2002, Melania praised a New York magazine article about Epstein and complemented the socialite now serving 20 years in prison for 𝒔𝒆𝒙-trafficking.
“Dear G! How are you?” it starts. “Nice story about JE in NY mag. You look great in the picture.”
At the time, the first lady was still Melania Knauss and was just dating Trump.
The pair were photographed with Epstein and Maxwell around that time, but the email appears to be the first written communication between Melania and Maxwell in the files.
Melania Trump, then Knauss with Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. / Davidoff Studios Photography / Getty Images
“I know you are very busy flying all over the world,” she continued in her email. “How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY. Have a great time!”
She signed it “Love, Melania.”
A 2002 email from Melania Trump to Ghislaine Maxwell was released in the Jeffrey Epstein files on Friday, January 30, 2026. / Justice Department
In another file released on Friday, Maxwell responded to Melania’s email, addressing her as “Sweet pea.” Maxwell indicated that she would try to call her in her response.
“Actually plans changed again and I am now on my way back to NY. I leave again on Fri so I still do not think I have time to see you sadly. I will try and call though,” Maxwell wrote. “Keep well.”
The Daily Beast reached out to both the White House and the first lady’s office for comment.
The email exchange was among the more than three million additional pages of documents released by the Justice Department as required by law under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The document dump on Friday came six weeks after the deadline for the Justice Department to release all the files on the convicted 𝒔𝒆𝒙 offender.
The Trump administration is accused of violating the law for failing to meet multiple deadlines in releasing the documents.
The latest document dump includes more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, according to the Justice Department, bringing the total documents released to date to 3.5 million pages.
An image of Ghislaine Maxwell, Donald Trump, and Melania Trump in Tatler magazine, which was included in the Epstein files. / Department of Justice
While the latest release of documents included emails between the current first lady and Maxwell, files also included multiple emails that mention Melania.
Another email included in the document dump came from a redacted name to Epstein the day after the 2016 election. It starts with a comment on the sender being surprised by the election’s outcome and mentions Melania in a noticeable line.
“I remember flying back with Donald on his plane the first weekend I went to v=sit [sic] you in Florida was the weekend he met Melania and he kept on coming out=of the bedroom saying ‘wow what a hot piece of a–.’”
Full Story : The Truth About the Axe in the Funeral Home
The funeral home was too beautiful for the terror hiding inside it.
Cream-colored walls glowed beneath soft lights. White flowers surrounded the glossy white coffin like a cloud. Gold handles shone along its sides, and a large floral arrangement rested neatly on the lid, as if beauty could make death easier to accept.
Around the coffin, mourners stood in black formal clothes, silent and stiff, their eyes lowered in practiced grief.
At the front of the room stood the widow.
Margaret Vale wore a black funeral dress, pearl earrings, and a mourning veil that softened her sharp face but could not hide the tension in her mouth. Her hands were folded neatly in front of her, but her fingers kept tightening against each other.
Behind her stood a male mourner in a black suit, white shirt, and black tie. His face was pale, his posture uncertain, as if he was waiting for something to go wrong.
Then the doors burst open.
A woman in an orange work uniform stepped into the room.
Her name was Claire Mason.
Her messy light brown hair was tied back. Her pale face looked exhausted, as if she had not slept in days. A white apron hung over her uniform, stained faintly from work. In both hands, she gripped a wood-handled axe.
Gasps moved through the guests.
Margaret turned sharply beneath her veil.
“No,” she whispered.
Claire walked straight toward the coffin.
A few mourners stepped back. Someone dropped a program onto the polished floor. The male mourner behind Margaret moved forward, but he stopped when he saw Claire’s face.
She was not confused.
She was not hysterical.
She looked shattered, but certain.
Margaret’s voice rose in panic. “Stop her!”
Claire lifted the axe above her head.
“Open it!”
The blade came down hard onto the glossy white coffin lid.
The impact cracked through the room like thunder.
The white flower arrangement shook violently. A golden handle rattled. A jagged line split across the polished surface of the lid. Several guests cried out and stumbled backward.
Claire stood over the coffin, breathing hard, both hands still locked around the axe handle.
Margaret clutched her chest.
The male mourner stared in disbelief.
“What are you doing?” he asked.
Claire slowly looked up at him.
Her eyes were wet, but they did not break.
“What they buried,” she said, “isn’t the truth.”
