In a private meeting final week, a bunch of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse and members of the family of the late Virginia Giuffre pointed House Oversight Chair James Comer to allegations from the Justice Department’s Epstein files to additional investigate, arguing that appearing Attorney General Todd Blanche’s suggestion there have been no extra leads to pursue in the case isn’t true.
The group introduced paperwork from DOJ’s launched Epstein files – an electronic mail detailing an inventory of males from the late convicted intercourse offender’s orbit, in addition to Giuffre’s 2015 testimony to investigators – to assist the Republican chairman refine his personal probe and to argue there are allegations towards highly effective males that the Justice Department might pursue.
The private meeting between the survivors and the House Oversight Committee supplies a contemporary window into the again channeling between the 2 teams and the stress the survivors are making use of as they search accountability because the investigation into the late convicted intercourse offender and his orbit has largely stalled beneath Blanche.
The survivors introduced Comer {a partially} redacted set of emails from July 2025 that confirmed FBI officers had been conscious of an electronic mail discussing constructing out a spreadsheet of allegations towards greater than a dozen males.
“Take these names and build out new spreadsheet w all the derog on them,” a redacted particular person says in one of many emails on the chain, referring to the record of 14 males.
That record consists of some who’ve beforehand testified to the committee – like Bill Clinton and Les Wexner – and different high-profile names – equivalent to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and President Donald Trump – who haven’t appeared earlier than the panel. A NCS evaluation of the public Epstein files revealed that brokers began to collect allegations for every of the 14 males named later that very same day.
Clinton and Wexner, who’ve appeared earlier than the committee for videotaped and transcribed interviews, have every denied any wrongdoing and data of Epstein’s crimes. NCS has reached out to Mountbatten-Windsor, who has additionally vehemently denied any and all wrongdoing in his dealings with Epstein.
Trump has persistently denied wrongdoing associated to Epstein, and White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson instructed NCS Monday that “just as President Trump has said, he’s been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein. And by releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request, signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and calling for more investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends, President Trump has done more for Epstein’s victims than anyone before him.”
It was not instantly clear from the files what the FBI and DOJ did to pursue the outlined allegations for the 14 males. The girls in the meeting disputed Blanche’s claims – together with to NCS’s Dana Bash in February and to FOX in April – that there was nothing in the files that might lead to prosecution and that the files shouldn’t be a part of instances introduced by the present Justice Department.
NCS has reached out to the DOJ, FBI, and representatives of the opposite males for touch upon the e-mail alternate and testimony supplied to Comer.
Comer quickly acted on at the least a few of the data supplied to him by the survivors.
After meeting with them, the Republican chairman introduced he would ask lawyer Alan Dershowitz to testify in the panel’s probe. “Due to public reporting, documents released by the Department of Justice, documents obtained by the Committee, and your former role as Mr. Epstein’s attorney, the Committee believes you have information that will assist in its investigation,” the panel mentioned in its request.
A spokesperson for the committee instructed NCS that “based on information provided by Epstein survivors and testimony from Ms. Groff, Chairman Comer is requesting that Alan Dershowitz appear for a videotaped, transcribed interview.”
Dershowitz, who has lengthy publicly maintained he has by no means executed something incorrect or unlawful associated to Epstein or his victims, instructed NCS on Monday: “I did absolutely nothing wrong. That’s why I volunteered to testify.”
Dershowitz was a part of the authorized staff that negotiated Epstein’s controversial 2008 plea deal. In 2022, Giuffre agreed to drop allegations she made towards Dershowitz, which he persistently denied, saying she “may have made a mistake” when she additionally accused him of sexual abuse.
Giuffre’s members of the family additionally took Comer excerpts from their late sister’s 2015 deposition in which she named males she mentioned Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked her to.
The cloud of the Epstein files continues to grasp over the Trump administration, even because the Justice Department has maintained in latest months that there’s nothing left to investigate.
As NCS reported, a bunch of Epstein survivors got here out in opposition to Blanche’s nomination as Trump’s everlasting lawyer normal in the wake of New York Times reporting that Blanche participated in secret White House conferences on how to comprise the political fallout from the Epstein files.
The House Oversight Committee, in the meantime, has performed at the least 15 interviews as a part of its ongoing Epstein probe together with the Clintons, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Bill Gates and key members of Epstein’s interior circle.