US First Lady Melania Trump has slammed what she described as false claims about her and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, denying she had any knowledge of his crimes.
"I am not Epstein's victim," she said in a rare public statement read to media at the White House.
"Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump."
"I have never had any knowledge of Epstein's abuse of his victims.
"I was never involved in any capacity - I was not a participant, was never on Epstein's plane, and never visited his private island."
The first lady also described an email she sent to Epstein's accomplice and former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell in 2002 as a "casual correspondence".
US President Donald Trump had a social and professional relationship with the convicted paedophile and disgraced financier, but says he ended it before his death in 2019.
Melania Trump demanded the "lies" tying her to Epstein must end today.
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