Epstein Survivors Push For Release Of Files In New Psa, Say Fight Isn't Political

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Several women who survived maltreatment by Jeffrey Epstein person travel together for a nationalist work announcement video demanding that Congress merchandise each files connected nan accused activity trafficker.

“It’s a telephone to action,” 1 of nan women, Danielle Bensky, told NBC News connected Sunday. “While we are Epstein and [Ghislaine] Maxwell survivors, we are opinionated for truthful galore victims of intersexual battle and of home violence, arsenic well.”

The PSA, produced by World Without Exploitation, directs nan nationalist to a nexus to nonstop automated letters of support to their legislature leaders. It comes up of Tuesday's highly anticipated House ballot connected releasing those files.

“Many group scroll and they spot our stories, and they want to find a measurement to advocate, and they’re not really judge how,” Bensky said. “We really want to show group that you tin get retired location and you tin do this for yourself and beryllium a portion of what’s starting to really consciousness for illustration a movement, successful a way.”

The video features respective women holding photos of their younger selves astatine nan ages they met Epstein, nan salient precocious financier who lived successful able and politically connected circles.

“There’s astir a 1000 of us,” a female says successful nan video. “It’s clip to bring nan secrets retired of nan shadows.”

Epstein subsister Annie Farmer, whose sister Maria Farmer was nan first female to record a criminal title against Epstein, successful 1996, stressed nan merchandise of nan files is not a governmental rumor but 1 that has been buried excessively long.

"Please retrieve that these are crimes that were committed against existent humans, existent individuals. This is not a governmental issue. This, this has been going connected for decades," Annie Farmer said. "My sister Maria Farmer reported this nether nan Clinton’s administration, right? There person been mistakes that were made successful this lawsuit nether nan Bush administration. So galore things person happened complete nan decades that were rule enforcement failures successful this case.

"This is not partisan. We’re asking for you to guidelines pinch america now to merchandise each of nan files," she continued.

Bensky has said she was 17 and a budding ballerina successful 2004 erstwhile Epstein sexually abused her astatine his Manhattan mansion.

"When you look astatine really agelong this has spanned, we person to do thing astir it. And it really is not political. It's ne'er been governmental for us," she said.

Both women were among a group of survivors who wrote a missive thanking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., for backing nan effort to merchandise nan Epstein files successful a dramatic divided from her statement line.

The women said that nan reside of emails successful a trove of Epstein-related documents lawmakers connected nan House Oversight and Reform Committee released past week didn’t daze them and that they dream it signals a caller era of transparency.

“I deliberation it’s nan type of misogyny and classism and nan reside of immoderate of these emails that group were really disturbed by was, was thing that we were each very alert of, was a portion of this group and these types of conversations," Farmer said. "I deliberation that it was really bully to spot different group looking into that world and being disgusted by it.”

Epstein died by termination successful jailhouse successful 2019 arsenic he was awaiting proceedings connected national activity trafficking charges. Maxwell, his accomplice, was convicted successful 2022 connected national activity trafficking charges and is reportedly seeking to person her situation condemnation commuted.

While survivors person many times stressed nan Epstein lawsuit shouldn’t beryllium politicized, it has been a governmental lightning rod connected Capitol Hill.

President Donald Trump, who was mentioned successful immoderate of nan released Epstein emails, directed nan Justice Department connected Friday to analyse Epstein’s engagement pinch financial institutions and governmental figures while taking purpose astatine Democrats. Trump has denied immoderate engagement successful Epstein’s crimes.