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TV host Megyn Kelly told her viewers that someone ‘very close’ to the Jeffrey Epstein case told her he was ‘not a paedophile’.
The conservative commentator went on air and said: ‘This is this person’s view, who was there for a lot of this, but that he was into the barely legal type. Like, he liked 15-year-old girls.’
She added: ‘He wasn’t into, like, 8-year-olds, but he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were.
‘I’m definitely not trying to make an excuse for this. I’m just giving you facts,’ she said.
Kelly also said she wasn’t sure if Attorney General Pam Bondi’s statement about how the Justice Department had ‘tens of thousands’ of videos of child sex abuse material from Epstein’s computer was true.
She went on: ‘We have yet to see anybody come forward and say, ‘I was eight, I was under 10, I was under 14 when I first came within his purview.
‘There’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a five-year-old, but in either case, the whole thing is just disgusting.’
Disgraced financier Epstein was a convicted sex offender accused of abusing and trafficking underage girls.
He was convicted in 2008 of multiple charges of sexual abuse of minors, but he avoided federal prosecution after taking a plea deal.
In total, he spent 13 months in prison and was allowed to leave on work-release. Epstein killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial for trafficking. His death was blamed on the negligence and misconduct of prison guards.
One of Epstein’s alleged victims, Virginia Giuffre, publicly claimed Epstein and Maxwell forced her to have sex with Prince Andrew in 2001 — an allegation the Duke of York has consistently denied.
It is alleged that many of Epstein’s crimes were carried out on his private island, Little St James, in the Virgin Islands, which he travelled to and from by private jet.
The Epstein files refer to all of the evidence gathered by investigators working on the criminal cases against Epstein and his associates.
Many of those court documents – including flight logs for Epstein’s private jet – have already been made public, but many more remain sealed, raising speculation over who else could be implicated.
When Trump returned to the White House, he released some of Epstein’s files and promised more would follow, saying he had ‘no problem’ making the documents public.
The FBI said it was reviewing ‘tens of thousands’ of documents relating to Epstein, and these are being redacted to protect the identity of victims and any other ongoing investigations.
On Wednesday, a series of images were posted on X by the US House Democrats, which they said were emails between Maxwell, Epstein and write Michael Wolff about Trump.
One email between Maxwell and Epstein in 2011 alleges that Trump ‘spent hours at my house’ with an unnamed victim of sex trafficking.
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