Snopes: Real photo shows Trump and wife Melania with Ghislaine Maxwell? Rating: True

[Eugene]

Source: Snopes

Real photo shows Trump and wife Melania with Ghislaine Maxwell?

The photo spread online as demands grew for the White House to release the so-called Epstein files in July 2025.

Cindy Shan
Published July 17, 2025

Claim:

An old photo authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump with convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell.

Rating:

True

In mid-July 2025, an old photo widely circulated on social media purportedly showing convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell with U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania Trump.

The picture spread amid reports that Maxwell, an associate of sex trafficker and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, may be willing to testify before Congress about Epstein's activities. She is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence (archived) for helping Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.

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Read more: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-photo-melania-ghislaine-maxwell/

[UTUSN]

1. K&R

https://mediaproxy.snopes.com/width/1200/

[niyad]

5. Hmm. . already wearing too-long red tie. Red/florid face. For a model,

melanoma has dreadful taste in clothes. That outfit looks awful on her, as does what the procurer is wearing. I wonder how high mel's heels were, as she was taller than pedo in that image. . as well as not looking sullen, for a refreshing change. She had not had all the work done at this point, apparently.

[3Hotdogs]

2. She better make sure the cameras in her cel block are all working.

And she shouldn't accept any gift packages of sheets from Bed Bath...

[Marcuse]

4. Her best chance to devalue her death is to stop angling for a pardon and sing like a canary.

[progressoid]

3. Any decent MAGA know that Snopes lies

And factcheck.org

[flying_wahini]

6. Pretty sure she will be ready to sing about the guest list and has her documents safely secured with media support.

She is no dummy. A perv herself, but def not stupid.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Melanoma's kidneys haven't yet grown, I notice

[Norrrm]

8. Eric Trump started a meme of Bill Clinton being associated and photographed with Maxwell.

He got so many pictures of his daddy associating with Maxwell that he dumped his meme.