Is a photo that shows Beyoncé with a shirtless Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and another photo of just the two men on an airplane real photos from the Department of Justice Epstein files? No, that's not true: Hive Moderation's AI detection tool rated one image 99.9% likely to be AI-generated and the other 99.6% likely. A search of the Epstein files did not find any photos of Beyoncé on a plane with Epstein and Trump.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) by the @FablexUG account on X on Oct. 26, 2026. It read:
🚨The Epstein files have leaked again !! As Jeffrey Epstein, Trump and Beyonce are all seen chilling on board.
Woow!! It's crazy that after all the efforts they put in place to create diversions, the files are finding their way out again. It's shocking that Beyonce is also part of this mess🫥
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @FablexUG on X.)
Lead Stories ran both images through the Hive Moderation AI-Generated Content Detection tool and each image was rated as likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content (pictured below). The image of Beyoncé standing behind Epstein and Trump received a rating of 99.9% likely.
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
The image of Trump shirtless sitting at a table next to Epstein who is counting stacks of cash received a rating of 99.6% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content:
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
Lead Stories also searched the Epstein Library (archived here), the only publicly searchable database of Epstein-related files, for any reference to Beyoncé and did not find any photos that include her. Lead Stories also searched the Epstein library for keywords "Trump Epstein plane," "Trump shirtless," and "Trump no shirt" and did not find any results.
(Image source: Department of Justice Epstein Library.)
(Image source: Department of Justice Epstein Library.)
(Image source: Department of Justice Epstein Library.)
