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Mr. Wolff, it turns out, was enough of an insider to provide advice to Jeffrey Epstein on how to handle his dealings with Donald J. Trump.
Nov. 12, 2025, 5:57 p.m. ET
Michael Wolff, a writer, reporter, columnist, author and would-be mogul, has spent his long career building his profile as an insider with gossip on New York luminaries that sometimes draws scrutiny from his peers.
That profile expanded on Wednesday: Mr. Wolff, it turns out, has been enough of an insider that he once provided advice to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced sex offender, on how to handle his dealings with Donald J. Trump, who was running for president at the time.
That revelation emerged from emails between Mr. Wolff and Mr. Epstein released by Washington lawmakers.
In one of the emails, from December 2015, Mr. Wolff says that CNN planned to ask Mr. Trump about his relationship with Mr. Epstein, and then counsels Mr. Epstein on next steps. “I think you should let him hang himself,” Mr. Wolff wrote of Mr. Trump.
In another email, from October 2016, Mr. Wolff sent Mr. Epstein an email saying that there was an “opportunity to come forward this week and talk about Trump in such a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him.” The exchange came late in Mr. Trump’s first presidential campaign, and weeks after a recording emerged of Mr. Trump making vulgar comments about women to an “Access Hollywood” host.
The emails shed new light on the author-source relationship between Mr. Wolff, 72, and Mr. Epstein, who died in 2019. Mr. Wolff did not immediately respond to a requests for comment for this article.
