'Calling him sweetheart': Barron Trump's romance with British woman revealed in court testimony

The youngest son of the President of the United States of America, Barron Trump, had already revealed he was in a 'very close' relationship with the British woman he saved by calling the UK police. However, in a fresh off-the-court testimony made by the victim's 'jealous' ex, they were close enough for her to call him 'sweetheart'.

According to the court statement made by the woman's then-boyfriend Matvei Rumiantsev, Trump bombarded his 22-year-old secret friend with late-night texts and calls. She referred to the 19-year-old as "sweetheart" in an exchange that led to a fight between her and her then-boyfriend.

The revealing testimony

Giving evidence at a trial in East London, the Russian-born Rumiantsev, said that he believed his ex-girlfriend's feelings for Barron were not sincere. “She was frankly leading him on,” said the 22-year-old accused of attacking the woman.

“I’m being portrayed as a highly jealous person who loses his temper. I can’t say I wasn’t jealous. I considered her actions towards him wrong. It wasn’t fair either to him or to me,” he told the jurors at Snaresbrook Crown Court.

Rumiantsev is accused of offences including assault and two counts of rape along with intentional strangulation, bodily harm and attempting to pervert the court of justice.

Barron Trump's secret romance?

According to Trump's statement to the police and the court proceedings, he met the woman on social media. A transcript of the emergency call released by the Crown Prosecution Service on Thursday, shows Trump telling the operator that he met the alleged victim on social media, when asked about how he knew her.

He shared that he video-called the woman in the early hours of January 18, 2025. “I didn’t expect her to pick up due to the time difference,” Trump said in his email to police, as per The Guardian.

“The phone was picked up. The individual who answered was a shirtless man with darkish hair. This view lasted maybe one second … then the view flipped to the victim,” it added.

This was when Trump raised the alarm and also asked two of his friends in the US to call the police, the court heard. He added that he had been told by the woman, “who I am very close with,” that the man “was giving her difficulty for a long time.”

The woman later told the court that Trump's call to emergency operators and the subsequent intervention had "saved" her life.