Did real never-before-seen images of Trump and Epstein together with young girls originate from a Department of Justice release of Epstein files? No, that's not true: The images are AI-generated and originated from a video published in Nov. 2025 by a tabloid-style Spanish language TikTok account. Credible news sources have not reported on these images, and the DOJ file numbers are not provided. That's because the images are fake and did not originate among the real Epstein files which the DOJ released.
The collage of fake images surfaced in a post (archived here) published on X by @JanetLei5 on March 8, 2026. The post was captioned:
THERE'S A PEDOPHILE LIVING IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!
This is the collage of pictures included in the post:
(Image source: post by @JanetLei5 on X.)
The images are grainy, and the visible TikTok watermark is not legible. However, a Google Lens search of a clearer version yielded a legible watermark pointing to the TikTok account @marenfrost5, with a "Para Enterados" tagline -- "For those in the know". The account's profile picture shows a generic logo for "Noticias News Channel".
The beginning video narration, when translated by Google, reads:
News on the day of everything is joining the White House and the case of the infamous Epstein files. The evidence was published this morning, devastatingly, of new emails from Jeffrey Epstein, according to Congress, contradicting the formation of the President's relationship in the 2000s.
Although the screenshots went viral in March 2026, the video (archived here) where these images originated was posted on TikTok by @marenfrost5 on Nov. 15, 2025. This video features a small red overlay reading "Alerta". The red overlay is also visible in the screenshots of the X collage -- a clear sign the images came from TikTok and not from the Justice Department. The @marenfrost5 video was also published days before the U.S. Congress passed H.R. 4405 - Epstein Files Transparency Act on Nov. 19, 2025 (archived here). The DOJ released a small number of files in Feb. 2025, but the first large release began Dec. 19, 2025, continuing through Dec. 23, 2025. On Jan. 30, 2026 the DOJ announced (archived here) an additional 3 million pages were released bringing the total of released files to over 3.5 million.
Lead Stories used the InVID-WeVerify Keyframes tool to extract the still images from the @marenfrost5 video. Lead Stories formatted these in a montage (pictured below). Not every image in the montage is fake -- some are authentic, widely published photographs. For example, a photo of Donald Trump, his future wife Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell at a party at Mar-a-Lago on Feb. 12, 2000 appears in the second and third row. The real image (archived here) is in the Getty Images library. The last frame appearing in the montage showing Trump and Epstein joking at a party, came from a 1992 video filmed by an NBC News crew at Mar-a-Lago -- filmed prior to Epstein's first arrest. That footage was rediscovered in the NBC News archive and republished (archived here) on July 17, 2019 while Epstein was in a federal prison in New York, just weeks before his death.
(Image source: Lead Stories montage with images posted by @marenfrost5 on TikTok.)
Most of the images pictured above are AI-generated fakes. They feature overly polished skin tones which make the people appear like dolls. Examples of glitches typical from AI-generated images appear right at the top of the X collage but are obscured by the poor quality image and the TikTok watermark. One picture shows a bare-chested Trump character with a young girl in a bikini, and behind them a man resembling Epstein with another young girl in a bikini. Another image shows the Trump figure kissing the cheek of a young girl, and the the man in the background carrying another young girl. In both cases (pictured below) the background man's hand shows five fingers, not counting his thumb which isn't pictured.
(Image source: Lead Stories composite with images posted by @marenfrost5 on TikTok..)
(Image source: Lead Stories composite with images posted by @marenfrost5 on TikTok.)
The Spanish text caption on the TikTok video reads:
NOTICIAS DE ÚLTIMA HORA
Nueva evidencia de Epstein destruye al Presidente: Correos revelan contacto.
Translated to English by Google:
BREAKING NEWS
New Epstein evidence destroys the President: Emails reveal contact.
One set of AI-generated faux Polaroid photos in the @marenfrost5 video features a smiling Trump character sitting in a bathtub full of dark water. His back is turned toward not one spigot, but two. The smiling Trump character has feminine breasts and is wearing a bra. In another glitchy image the Trump character is standing in a green dress, on his right shoulder is resting the disembodied hand of a small person who is not otherwise pictured. These are demonstrably fake. The rendering of the fake instant film is also flawed, appearing to have the puffy chemical pouch on the front side, when a real Polaroid picture (archived here) has the puffy part on the back.
(Image source: post of @marenfrost5 on TikTok.)
