President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on July 21, and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
In the wake of the announcement, a photo appearing to show Harris posing with late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein went viral. Epstein was in the headlines recently after a federal judge ordered the release of court records that named Epstein’s associates.
Several X posts with the photo say “make this photo famous,” implying there is a link between Harris and Epstein. But people in the comments of the X posts say the photo is fake.
THE QUESTION
Is the photo of Kamala Harris posing with Jeffrey Epstein real?
THE SOURCES
- Original 2015 Getty Images photo of Harris and husband Doug Emhoff
- Epstein’s mugshot from his 2006 arrest in Florida
- RevEye, a reverse image search tool
THE ANSWER
![This is false.](/assets/shared-images/icons/verify/badge-false.png)
No, the photo of Kamala Harris posing with Jeffrey Epstein isn’t real.
WHAT WE FOUND
The image appearing to show Kamala Harris posing with Jeffrey Epstein is fake.
Using RevEye, a reverse image search tool, VERIFY traced the image of Harris to a Getty Images photo taken on Sept. 17, 2015. In the original, Harris was not posing with Epstein – she was posing with her husband Doug Emhoff at a black tie dinner in Los Angeles.
Epstein’s head was superimposed onto Emhoff’s body and was taken from his 2006 mugshot released by the Palm Beach, Florida, Sheriff’s Office.