The lawsuit filed in Miami federal court names Rupert Murdoch, Dow Jones, News Corp and its Chief Executive, and two Wall Street Journal reporters as defendants.

A rumor that circulated online in July 2025 claimed U.S. President Donald Trump once called now-deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a "fun" and "terrific guy," adding, "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."

The Justice Department said unsealing grand jury transcripts related to Epstein's case is necessary given "longstanding and legitimate" public interest in the case.

The $10bn lawsuit is over a story claiming the president wrote a "bawdy" personal note to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.

Despite recent claims by President Donald Trump that former Biden officials doctored files related to Jeffrey Epstein, many of the documents -- including those mentioning Trump and several prominent Democrats -- have been public for years.

Donald Trump was friendly for at least 15 years with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019.

"All the work that we did to tell the world what happened to us, it’s all being erased," victim Danielle Bensky said.

The FBI allegedly instructed agents to “flag” any mention of President Donald Trump while reviewing files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump knew Epstein socially in the 1990s and early 2000s. During the 2021 trial of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, the financier's longtime pilot, Lawrence Visoski, testified that Trump flew on Epstein's private plane multiple times. Trump has denied being on the plane.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that he had filed a "powerhouse" lawsuit over the Wall Street Journal's Jeffrey Epstein article.