A federal judge today rejected Donald Trump's multimillion-dollar lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and media tycoon Rupert Murdoch concerning a report that addressed his links with Jeffrey Epstein.
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31/10/2026
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Um federal judge today rejected Donald Trump's multimillion-dollar lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media magnate Rupert Murdoch concerning a report that addressed his links with Jeffrey Epstein.
It was a defamation suit brought by the American President Donald Trump against the Wall Street Journal, referring to an article that gave him an obscene letter addressed to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.
Trump denied being the author of the correspondence and sued the newspaper for defamation, as well as its owner, Rupert Murdoch, demanding at least $10 billion (about €8.94 billion) in damages.
Federal judge Darrin Gayles, in Miami, filed the case, deciding that the American President did not prove that the defendants made defamatory statements with deliberate malpractice.
The decision states that the process was a desperate attempt — a search for any argument, however fragile — to “make” flaws in The Wall Street Journal’s research report.
When a case is filed with ‘with damage’, it cannot be filed again and filing is permanent and final.
The case referred to a report published by The Wall Street Journal last year, which described a sexually suggestive letter — which, according to the newspaper, bore the name Trump — included in a 2003 album, organized on Epstein's 50th anniversary.
The letter was obtained by the British socialite — and is now in disgrace — Ghislaine Maxwell, in the framework of an anniversary album for Epstein, years before his first arrest in 2006, and the subsequent breakup with Trump.
The letter, which is named Trump, contains a text framed by the outline of what appears to be the hand-made drawing of a naked woman, and ends with the phrase: “Happy Birthday — And May Every Day Be Another Wonderful Secret”, according to the newspaper.
Trump denied writing the text and classified the article as “false, malicious and defamatory”.
The lawsuit, filed in a Miami federal court, accused the newspaper and its reporters of having published, “in a conscious and reckless manner”, “numerous false, defamatory and derogatory statements” that, according to the prosecution, caused “a lot of financial and reputational damage” to the President.