Which Epstein accusers named donald trump in legal filings and what were the dates of those filings?

1. The 2016 California lawsuit: “Katie Johnson” and its date

The clearest, repeatedly cited legal filing that tied a rape allegation to both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump is the April 2016 California lawsuit brought by an anonymous plaintiff using the pseudonym “Katie Johnson,” in which she alleged being raped at age 13 at Epstein’s Manhattan residence in 1994 and named both Epstein and Trump; that suit was filed in April 2016 and dismissed the following month, May 2016, according to summaries of the litigation ^[1].

2. Other 2016 federal suits and affidavits: names, timing, and ambiguity

Reporting catalogs at least two other 2016 federal suits filed against Trump that incorporated witness affidavits and anonymous sources: a third federal suit filed in New York in September 2016 and companion filings the same year contained affidavits from anonymous witnesses who said they had heard allegations about underage sex parties and procurement tied to Epstein — those filings are dated to 2016 but the public reporting emphasizes anonymity and does not uniformly show an explicit, public naming of Trump in a sworn, fully public affidavit ^[1].

3. References uncovered in later DOJ releases and the December 2025 documents

The Department of Justice’s large, staggered releases of Epstein-related materials in late 2025 and early 2026 included documents that mention Trump in several contexts — including an FBI file and court documents that reference a 14‑year‑old who was said to have been taken to Mar‑a‑Lago in 1994 and introduced to its owner, Donald Trump — but news outlets stress those were documents within investigatory files, not necessarily sworn civil complaints by identified victims, and some items were removed or heavily redacted after publication ^{[4] [2] [3]}.

4. FBI tips, spreadsheets and temporary files: breadth but limited verification

Beyond the civil suits, reporters found a spreadsheet and lists of tips to FBI units that the DOJ briefly published then took offline; one internal email described a set of names as “Trump accusers from NTOC,” and the releases overall included thousands of documents that mentioned Trump in varying ways — but DOJ officials warned that many public submissions to the FBI were unverified, and the department has said inclusion in the files is not evidence of criminality ^{[5] [3] [6]}.

5. Conflicting public statements, redactions and the limits of what’s publicly provable

Major outlets and official statements underline sharp caveats: PBS and other reporting note that “none of Epstein’s victims who have gone public has accused Trump” in the sense of putting their names to public victim statements, even as investigatory records contain allegations ^[7]; the DOJ also publicly asserted that the released records did not establish criminal or inappropriate conduct by Trump and that some items contained false claims, while journalists documented at least one court-filed anonymous suit that did name him by pseudonym in 2016 ^{[3] [8] [1]}.

6. Bottom line: who named Trump in a legal filing and when — and what remains unresolved

The only clearly documented, dated civil filing in mainstream reporting that publicly linked an accuser to allegations involving Trump is the pseudonymous April 2016 California lawsuit by “Katie Johnson,” which was dismissed in May 2016 ^[1]; subsequent references in 2016 federal suits, later DOJ releases (Dec 2025 onward), FBI tip compilations and media accounts include allegations and investigatory notes mentioning Trump or Mar‑a‑Lago in 1994, but they are frequently anonymous, redacted, removed, or described by officials as unverified, leaving unresolved which, if any, additional named accusers formally filed public legal complaints that explicitly and verifiably named Donald Trump in sworn, public court papers beyond the 2016 pseudonymous suit ^{[2] [5] [3] [4]}.