For his 50th birthday in 2003, Jeffrey Epstein received a book, 238 pages of photos, mementos, and notes from family and friends.

One particular entry has been scrutinized. It's a typed message within an outline drawing of a woman's silhouette.

One line reads to Epstein, may every day be another wonderful secret. At the

bottom, the name Donald J. Trump appears along with his signature. I don't even know what they're

talking about. Now, somebody could have written a letter and used my name, but that's happened a lot.

That's President Trump back in July, shortly after the Wall

Street Journal broke the story of the letter's existence. The book is now public, the House

Oversight Committee subpoenaed it, and released a redacted version on Monday. Trump and Epstein

were known to be friendly around this time, though the White House continues to deny that the letter

or signature are Trumps. Regardless,

there are 237 other pages in Epstein's birthday book. They include well-wishes, lewd references,

and sex jokes, written by some of the most powerful people on earth to a man federal prosecutors

would later charge with sexually exploiting and abusing dozens of minor girls.

It raises an unsettling question.

How much did Epstein's associates know about what he was doing?

So that is one of the great, another great mystery.

Vicki Ward is a journalist who reported on Epstein around the time of that birthday

and has covered him through his life and since his death in prison six years ago.

We do know that there were a lot of bold-faced names, politicians, very rich men,

who were on his planes, who may have visited the island, who came to

dinner at his houses. And he was at the same time surrounded by beautiful women, many of whom

were underage Myers, almost in plain sight.

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