A former prisoner's recollections of conversations with Jeffrey Epstein have resurfaced in a new report, including two unverified anecdotes involving Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. William Mersey, who spent time with Epstein in federal custody in 2019, said the financier recounted a story about Trump and later volunteered an explicit anecdote about Clinton.
William Mersey, a former inmate who says he spent time at New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center in 2019, recounted the stories in an interview reported by The Daily Beast in December of that year. TMZ revisited the Trump anecdote in a report published on 23 October 2026. Epstein was being held at the facility while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.
