Photographs of U.S. President Donald Trump posing with his daughter Ivanka Trump often circulate online. One widely shared image, allegedly taken when Ivanka Trump was a teenager, depicts her posing on a bed with her father.
The photo resurfaced in July 2025, after the Department of Justice released a memo stating it found no incriminating "client list" and no credible evidence that the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had blackmailed prominent people. The DOJ also concluded "no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted" in its investigation of Epstein. As The Associated Press reported, this memo contradicted theories about the alleged list that the president's administration had once helped advance.
One July 18, 2025, X post (archived) with the image had more than 470,000 views as of this writing:
(X user @YourAnonNews)
TinEye reverse-image search results showed the photograph has circulated online at least since 2016. Over the years, it has appeared on various social media platforms, including Bluesky, Threads, Facebook, Imgur, Pinterest, Quora and Reddit.
In short, the photograph was authentic. It was featured in a 1995 issue of InStyle magazine. Therefore, we have rated the claim as true.
It's worth noting that, in many early posts with the image, it was seemingly a photo of a printed photograph. "From the Trump family photo album," one X post claimed without evidence.
Donald Trump and daughter Ivanka photographed for a Pretty Baby-esque publicity shoot in the '90s pic.twitter.com/3jMLTZTjAg
— Anna Biller (@missannabiller) October 17, 2016
We noticed that the photograph's background seemingly matched that of other photographs from inside Donald Trump's penthouse in New York:
(X user @missannabiller, France24.com)
After the initial publication of this article, a reader shared with us what appeared to be digital scans of pages from a printed article featuring the in-question photograph. The reader confirmed via email that they owned a physical copy of the article and had scanned the image.
(Email from Snopes' reader)
We uploaded the reader's images into TinEye's reverse-image search. Using those results and Wayback Machine, an internet archive, we found the images indeed matched media that appeared in an article published by InStyle magazine in December 1995. We tracked down that magazine's cover, which teased the article, "at home with […] Donald & Marla Trump."
Inside, the article with the in-question image was titled "Breakfast Above Tiffany's" and was written by Leslie Marshall, according to a 2015 post by InStyle. We were unable to locate a digital version of the entire magazine issue.
(Wayback Machine)
Based on the images, Firooz Zahedi photographed the Trumps. We reached out to Zahedi — as well as Marshall, the article's author — for more information about the 1995 piece.
Zahedi confirmed via email that he took the in-question photograph for a 1995 issue of InStyle magazine. He said he has "not given the right to anyone else to publish it," so whoever put it online first "scanned it from the article." We will update this report when, or if, we receive a response from Marshall.
Two books by Gwenda Blair about the Trump family ("The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders" and "Donald Trump: The Candidate") cited the 1995 article by InStyle.
(Google Books)
This wasn't the only Trump-related image to resurface in July 2025. For example, we previously debunked a fake photo that appeared to show Epstein posing with Trump and a young girl.