A crude sketch of a naked woman allegedly hand-drawn by President Donald Trump was in a salacious 50th birthday album gifted to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a Wall Street Journal report published yesterday, July 17. The lewd drawing was part of a typewritten birthday note bearing Trump’s alleged signature that was addressed to the disgraced financier. Done in marker, the illustration of what appeared to be a nude woman contained the president’s first name, which was situated in the subject’s groin region in place of pubic hair, according to the Journal. The picture framed several lines of typed text, which was styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein. It concluded with a vague message: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”According to the report, the note was included in a leather-bound album containing similarly suggestive poems, drawings, photos, and messages from Epstein’s close friends and business associates that had been compiled by the financier’s former assistant Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse multiple minors. Trump has denied authoring the drawing and has threatened to sue the Journal over the report. “I never wrote a picture in my life,” he told the paper.However, there does appear to be a precedent for Trump’s artistic inclinations. A simple sketch of the Manhattan skyline drawn by the president in 2005 as part of a literacy campaign fetched $29,128 at an auction in Los Angeles in 2017. Similar doodles by Trump were apparently included in various charity auctions.The president is currently facing backlash from both his far-right supporters and opponents over his administration’s failure to deliver on promises of releasing the long-sought-after Epstein files, which are believed to contain a list of clients involved in the child sex trafficking ring. Trump’s friendship with Epstein, which is known to have extended back to the 1990s, has long faced scrutiny, especially given that the president’s name appeared in flight logs for the financier’s private jet.Facing mounting outrage from voters and Democratic lawmakers over the Epstein files, House Republicans agreed to draft a measure last night that would call for a potential vote compelling the Justice Department to release material from its investigation.Trump was not the only contributor to Epstein’s birthday bash. According to the Journal’s report, billionaire retail mogul Les (Leslie) Wexner, a major funder for Ohio State University’s Wexner Center for the Arts, also gifted an illustration. “I wanted to get you what you want … so here it is,” Wexner allegedly wrote in a brief letter that accompanied a drawing of what appeared to be a woman’s breasts, according to the Journal.Wexner already faces previous accusations of participating in Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme. He has denied having any knowledge of the trafficking ring, maintaining that he severed ties with Epstein in 2007, shortly after allegations of the financier’s sexual abuse history first became public.In recent years, multiple prominent arts patrons have been linked to Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while in federal custody. In January 2024, unsealed court documents containing testimony from since-deceased sex trafficking survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre accused former Art Institute of Chicago chairman Thomas Pritzker and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) trustee Glenn Dubin of participating in Epstein’s schemes. Leon Black, a trustee at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has also been accused of sexually assaulting and raping a teenager in Epstein’s New York townhouse, as well as dodging capital gains taxes in art dealings with the deceased financier. They have all denied the allegations.