Jeffrey Epstein accusers urge Trump to release all the case files and rule out a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon
Source: NBC News
Sept. 2, 2025, 7:10 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — Six women who say they were sex trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein or convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell shared a unified message Tuesday as they implored the federal government to release more documents related to the case and urged President Donald Trump to pledge he won’t pardon Maxwell.
Epstein was a “master manipulator,” said Jess Michaels, who alleges the late financier raped her in 1991 when she was a 22-year-old professional dancer. “That was a strategy that was honed. That was a strategy that no young woman, no teenage girl had a chance — not a chance against his psychopathic skills.”
NBC News brought together a panel of women who included accusers and three relatives of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a prominent Epstein and Maxwell accuser who died by suicide in April.
While all but one of the women have spoken publicly over the years about the sexual abuse they say Epstein perpetrated before his death in 2019, the conversation Tuesday comes at a pivotal moment as Democrats and some Republicans in Congress renew a push to make all investigative files related to him public. Tuesday evening, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee released more than 33,000 pages of files related to Epstein.
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