Controversial S#!T

Virginia Giuffre's family is calling into question whether President Donald Trump really didn't know anything about Jeffrey Epstein's crimes ... after his comment claiming Epstein "stole" Virginia from Mar-a-Lago.

Here's the deal ... Trump was speaking to reporters Tuesday when his relationship with Epstein came up again -- and, he talked about a falling out he said they had when Epstein kept poaching his employees.

When asked if Virginia was one of the Mar-a-Lago employees -- who was working at Trump's private club in Florida when she was 16 -- the prez replied, "I think she worked at the spa. I think so. I think that was one of the people. He stole her, and by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever."

5:46 PM PT -- TMZ wrongly attributed the information to an American Eagle spokesperson when this post was originally published. We have reached out to AE, but they had no comment.

American Eagle's feeling good about its new Sydney Sweeney commercial -- despite all the controversy ... they might have good reason to blow off critics claiming the ad focuses on Nazi-like eugenics, pushing blonde hair and blue eyes as aspirational.

Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... the ad campaign is creating tremendous buzz and their independent polling shows the vast majority of folks -- around 70% -- find the commercial appealing.

The spot centers around Sydney buttoning up some AE jeans and touting her biological makeup, where she breathily says, "Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color ... my jeans are blue."

The future is female -- and apparently fake too, 'cause Guess is getting roasted for using an A.I. model in their new ads ... but the brand's co-founder is out here sticking to his guns, telling us there's no danger of real-life human models going extinct.

Paul Marciano -- the fashion brand's co-founder -- tells TMZ he’s always been one to shake things up, like when he dropped that bold red logo in '85 while everyone else was stuck in B&W. And it's the same vibe now ... A.I.'s just the new toy in town, so it caught his eye and he ran with it!

Paul tells us he's blown away by how real it looks. So when he stumbled on an IG account of an A.I.-driven marketing agency run by creator Seraphinne Vallora, it had him hooked ... especially since one of their A.I. models had total Guess girl vibes.

A man revealed to be a convicted child sex offender is causing outrage because he's got a baby boy at home ... and we've learned there was nothing to block him from bringing the child into his family under Pennsylvania law -- but now prosecutors say the best solution is changing the law through the legislature.

Here's the deal ... a Pennsylvania man named Brandon Keith Mitchell went viral this month over videos he shared on social media showing him and his husband kissing a baby boy and blowing out a candle every month through the child's first birthday.

The couple got ripped by some right-wing activists -- and then folks discovered Mitchell is a registered sex offender who was convicted of child sex abuse and possession of child pornography back in 2016.

Sydney Sweeney's pissing off liberals because she's hot and white ... so says conservative commentator Michael Knowles.

We caught up with the Daily Wire host Wednesday to discuss Sweeney's new American Eagle ad campaign ... which some have claimed is filled with implicit racism.

If you haven't seen the ad yet, Sydney's wearing the heck out of a jean jacket and matching pants ... she breathily talks about genetic traits, including eye color, and she says "My jeans are blue," with the tagline "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans" -- a potential double entendre for genes.

Sydney Sweeney is the newest face and voice of American Eagle ... a point of contention for much of the internet -- including Doja Cat, who couldn't help but guffaw and ridicule the ad!!!

Doja hopped on TikTok and mocked Sydney with an exaggerated backwoods country accent, with extra drawling emphasis to make the "Euphoria" actress sound stupid.

The American Eagle spot centers around Sydney touting her biological makeup, where she breathily says, "Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color ... my jeans are blue."

7/31/2025 -- 8:12 AM PT -- In an earlier version of this story, we incorrectly stated Charlotte Flair and Riki Johnson divorced in 2011. They actually divorced in 2013.

It wasn't just Charlotte Flair who got pissed off by Tiffany Stratton bringing up her divorces during "SmackDown" back in April ... 'cause it turns out WWE CCO Triple H demanded an apology over the unscripted jab.

Paul Levesque's real-time reaction to the viral moment was captured on the new Netflix documentary, "WWE: Unreal" which takes fans behind the scenes of the company's creative process.

If you didn't watch the OG clip ... Stratton and Flair were cutting a promo in the build-up to their WrestleMania 41 title match -- with Tiffany pointing at her ring finger and saying "What's that record, 0-3?"

Al Sharpton says President Trump is running from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and he's hoping an old trick distracts the masses ... attacks on big-name Black celebrities.

The Reverend joined us on "TMZ Live" Monday and we asked him about Trump alleging Sharpton was paid $600,000 to endorse Kamala Harris.

Al says the claim is absurd and it's a desperate move by Trump to shift the news cycle away from the Epstein Files. He says Trump's throwing crap on the wall and nothing's sticking -- so now he's leaning on an old crutch, going after former prez Barack Obama and other Black celebs.

President Donald Trump seems to be all over the place with his explanations on Jeffrey Epstein ... saying in his latest response that he never had the privilege of going to the late pedophile's notorious island -- while also claiming he declined an invitation.

Trump sparred with reporters over the "Epstein Files" during a Monday press conference at his golf resort in Scotland, where he was sitting next to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

As always, the Commander-in-Chief wasn't at a loss for words when talking about the one subject that's been dogging him and his administration the last few weeks.

Donald Trump just suggested his name appears in the Epstein files because his enemies -- Joe Biden, James Comey and Merrick Garland -- put his name in the files to smear him.

Trump was speaking in Scotland Monday when he casually dropped the conspiracy theory. He called the Biden trio the "worst scum on Earth," adding they controlled the Epstein Justice Dept. files for 4 years.

Now the conspiracy theory ... Trump said, "I was running against someone who ran the files ... They can easily put something in the files that's a phony."

Anthony Anderson says he didn't mean to upset anyone during an old interview with Lindsay Lohan ... he was just trying to make people laugh back in the day.

Here's the deal ... Anderson was guest-hosting the "The Sharon Osbourne Show" back in December 2003, and Lohan came on as a guest -- and, the resulting chat has made the rounds online and raised some eyebrows over the last few days.

Among the questions catching some extra scrutiny is Anthony's query about if Lohan -- who was 17 at the time of the interview -- is seeing anyone ... this right after he gave her a pillow with his own face on it.

A whites-only community in Arkansas is just looking to protect European identity and culture from diversity, and it's best for people of all races to have their own separate community centers ... so says the co-founder of Return to the Land.

We interviewed Eric Orwoll on "TMZ Live" Friday about the whites-only community that is looking to expand to Missouri and other areas ... and, we asked about why a whites-exclusive area is so important to their members.

Orwoll says white people value European heritage, and he says he thinks that identity is under threat in modern America. He says he understands if others want to blend and mix their cultures -- but, he thinks this would be at the detriment of pure cultural ancestry.

The home co-owned by the alleged "TikTok Dance Cult" pastor Robert Shinn was the target of a sex trafficking warrant today, TMZ has learned.

The El Monte Police Department tells TMZ ... their department's SWAT team assisted the U.S. Postal Service and the FBI Friday morning as a warrant was served at a residence in the Tujunga neighborhood of L.A. for sex trafficking, tax evasion, mail fraud and money laundering.

The Los Angeles FBI branch declined to comment. TMZ reached out to the U.S. Attorney's Office ... so far, no word back.

President Donald Trump has left the door open to possibly pardon Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking associate -- Ghislaine Maxwell -- in a shocking reversal of what the White House promised just two weeks ago.

The commander-in-chief gathered with a gaggle of reporters on the White House lawn Friday morning ... and one journalist fired off the question that's on everyone's mind -- Will Trump consider a pardon or a commutation for Maxwell?

And Trump's response was ... well, let's just say it gives plenty of wiggle room ... check out the clip to hear 47's own words on the subject, which is a far cry from what his White House said recently.

Former president Bill Clinton and famous fashion designer Vera Wang are among the celebs who reportedly wrote personalized messages for Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday.

The Wall Street Journal dropped another bombshell Thursday with an article claiming Clinton and Wang were among those who contributed to Epstein's birthday album, which the outlet says was organized by Ghislaine Maxwell.

Clinton's alleged note is said to be in his handwriting and reads ... "It's reassuring isn't it, to have lasted as long, across all the years of learning and knowing, adventures and [illegible word], and also to have your childlike curiosity, the drive to make a difference and the solace of friends."

President Trump's FCC finally gave the green light for a merger between Skydance Media and Paramount Global ... and the timing is interesting.

FCC chair Brendan Carr announced the merger Thursday in a statement that also referenced DEI.

Paramount and Skydance, a Hollywood studio, have been trying to merge under one umbrella for a while now ... and there was a bunch of politics involved, including a narrative that Trump used his power to get CBS to cancel Stephen Colbert's late-night TV show.