Jeffrey Epstein’s survivors are urging Congress to release all files connected to the convicted sex offender, saying in a new video, “It’s time to bring the secrets out of the shadows.”
World Without Exploitation, a group that campaigns against sexual exploitation, released the video Sunday evening, days before the House is set to vote on a bill that would require the Justice Department to make all Epstein related records public.
The women, holding photos from when they say they first met Epstein as teenagers — some as young as 14 — represented an emotional call for action ahead of Tuesday’s vote.
“I’ve suffered so much pain,” one of the survivors said in the video.
“There are about 1,000 of us,” another survivor said.
The video ends with the written message, “Five administrations and we’re still in the dark,” and by urging viewers to contact their members of Congress to demand the files’ release.
“After three decades, it’s finally time to bring the secrets out of the shadows. We are demanding the release of ALL the Epstein files,” the organization wrote in a statement on its website.
Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie introduced a petition in July to push for a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The bill would require the Justice Department to make public all files and communications related to Epstein, including details of the investigation into his death in federal prison. Information about Epstein’s victims or ongoing federal investigations would be allowed to be redacted under the bill.
The vote comes as new documents made public last week raise questions about Epstein and his associates, including a 2019 email in which he told a journalist that President Trump “knew about the girls.”
On Sunday, Trump urged House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files, reversing his earlier opposition as more Republicans began supporting the measure.
“We have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Sunday night.
Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.
Alyssa Vega can be reached at alyssa.vega@globe.com.