A salacious birthday letter allegedly sent by Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein – which the US President denies exists — has been publicly released.

The note written within the outline of a woman’s body was included in a book of messages from friends, compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell for the paedophile financier’s 50th.

The birthday book’s existence was first revealed by The Wall Street Journal, but Trump had insisted no such letter from him existed.

“HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist,” the House Oversight Committee’s Democratic minority wrote in a post on Tuesday (AEST).

The letter posted by the committee appears to show Trump’s signature in the crotch area of the woman’s body.

It reads as an imagined conversation between Trump and Epstein in which Trump states: “We have certain things in common, Jeffrey”.

“Jeffrey: ‘Yes we do, come to think of it’.”

The imagined conversation continues until the final line from Trump: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”

The birthday letter to Epstein, allegedly signed by Trump. Photo: US Oversight Committee 

“Trump talks about a ‘wonderful secret’ the two of them shared. What is he hiding? Release the files!” posted Oversight Democrats on X.

The US House Oversight Committee received the book in files from Epstein’s estate after a subpoena was issued in August.

“The Oversight Committee has secured the infamous ‘birthday book’ that contains a note from President Trump that he has said does not exist,” Democrat Robert Garcia said.

“It’s time for the President to tell us the truth about what he knew and release all the Epstein files. The American people are demanding answers.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded: “President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it.

“President Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively pursue litigation.”

Court rejects presidential immunity

In other Trump-related news, a US federal appeals court has rejected that Trump had presidential immunity in his bid to throw out a $US83.3 million ($A127 million) defamation verdict against him.

Trump was found guilty of damaging the reputation of the writer E Jean Carroll in 2019 when he denied her rape claim.

He sought to have the matter overturned, claiming that he deserved presidential immunity from Carroll’s lawsuit.

However, three judges of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan unanimously rejected Trump’s argument.

“The jury’s duly rendered damages awards were reasonable in light of the extraordinary and egregious facts of this case,” the judges wrote in their opinion.

The same court on June 13 upheld Carroll’s separate $US5 million ($7.6 million) jury verdict against Trump in May 2023 for a similar defamation and for sexual assault.

Carroll, 81, a former Elle magazine columnist, accused Trump of attacking her around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room.

Trump first denied her claim in June 2019, saying Carroll was “not my type” and concocted the story to sell her memoir What Do We Need Men For?.

He essentially repeated his comments in an October 2022 Truth Social post, leading to the $US5 million ($7.6 million) verdict, though the jury did not find that Trump raped Carroll.

The larger award included $US18.3 million ($27.8 million) of damages for emotional and reputational harm, and $US65 million ($99 million) of punitive damages.

In his latest appeal, Trump argued that the US Supreme Court’s July 2024 decision providing him with substantial criminal immunity shielded him from liability in Carroll’s civil case.

He also said he spoke about Carroll in 2019 in his capacity as President, and that failing to immunise him could undermine the independence of the Executive Branch.

Trump also said US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw both trials, made other mistakes, including by striking his testimony that in speaking about Carroll: “I just wanted to defend myself, my family, and frankly the presidency.”

In June, Carroll released another memoir, Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President, about her legal battles against Trump.

-with AAP