House Democrats have released another set of Epstein estate photos, and one image is now putting a familiar face back in the spotlight: Belgian supermodel Ingrid Seynhaeve.
Seynhaeve appears laughing in a party photo with President Donald Trump as Jeffrey Epstein stands nearby at a Victoria’s Secret event at Manhattan’s now-closed Laura Belle club in April 1997.
The picture was included in the first batch of 19 images lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee selectively released from a trove of roughly 95,000 photos supplied by Epstein’s estate. The dump also included images tied to Bill Clinton and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Democrats admit the photos do not implicate anyone in Epstein’s crimes, but the release has reignited a media frenzy and opened the door for more speculation. Republicans say Democrats are cherry-picking images and redactions to push a narrative.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said Democrats were trying to create a false narrative, and she urged reporters to ask why Democrats sought meetings with Epstein after his conviction.
Separate agency shots from that same 1997 night have circulated for years, showing Trump, then 50, and Seynhaeve, then 23, together at the Victoria’s Secret Angels show.
What is different now is that the newly surfaced image comes directly from Epstein’s archive, making it the first photo from that party to be publicly tied to his personal collection.
It remains unclear why Epstein kept the image, but it has been printed before, including in the 2016 book Filthy Rich, which detailed Epstein’s elite network and the lenient 2008 Florida plea deal. That detail undercuts claims that the photo is brand new.
Seynhaeve, who broke through after winning Elite’s Look of the Year contest in 1991, was a well-known 1990s runway star and appeared in major fashion and lingerie campaigns, per the Daily Mail.
Reports say she moved in circles that overlapped with Trump’s public events, including pageants and fashion functions connected to his businesses during that era. She was often photographed in the same New York party circuit.
That visibility fueled late 1990s gossip suggesting she could be a new flame after Trump’s split from Marla Maples, though those claims were never confirmed.
In a later interview with Belgium’s KW, Seynhaeve dismissed the rumors, saying the tabloids caused nonstop calls to her parents’ home even though there was “nothing to it.”
She said she had already met the man of her life, then-boyfriend British socialite Tim Jefferies, and she did not describe Trump as a past partner.
Seynhaeve and Jefferies later split around 2001, and she eventually married French actor and director Jean-Baptiste Iera, with the couple raising two sons.
Since stepping back from full-time modeling, she has focused on family life and quietly co-founded the clothing label JUNE72, while avoiding the spotlight.
The Epstein-estate photo does not show anything beyond public social interaction, but its release adds fuel to a political fight as lawmakers keep drip-feeding selective images ahead of the December 19 transparency deadline. With more records expected, both sides are bracing for another media storm.
