{"id":172123,"date":"2025-11-17T03:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/epstein-survivors-push-for-release-of-files-in-new-psa-say-fight-isnt-political-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T03:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:59:32","slug":"epstein-survivors-push-for-release-of-files-in-new-psa-say-fight-isnt-political-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/epstein-survivors-push-for-release-of-files-in-new-psa-say-fight-isnt-political-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein survivors push for release of files in new PSA, say fight isn't political – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

news Alerts
There are no new alerts at this time
Several women who survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein have come together for a public service announcement video demanding that Congress release all files on the accused sex trafficker.
\u201cIt\u2019s a call to action,\u201d one of the women, Danielle Bensky, told NBC News on Sunday. \u201cWhile we are Epstein and [Ghislaine] Maxwell survivors, we are standing for so many victims of sexual assault and of domestic violence, as well.\u201d
The PSA<\/a>, produced by World Without Exploitation, directs the public to a link to send automated letters of support to their congressional leaders. It comes ahead of Tuesday’s highly anticipated House vote on releasing those files.
\u201cMany people scroll and they see our stories, and they want to find a way to advocate, and they\u2019re not really sure how,\u201d Bensky said. \u201cWe really want to tell people that you can get out there and you can do this for yourself and be a part of what\u2019s starting to really feel like a movement, in a way.\u201d
The video features several women holding photos of their younger selves at the ages they met Epstein, the prominent late financier who lived in wealthy and politically connected circles.
\u201cThere\u2019s about a thousand of us,\u201d a woman says in the video. \u201cIt\u2019s time to bring the secrets out of the shadows.\u201d
Epstein survivor Annie Farmer, whose sister Maria Farmer<\/a> was the first woman to file a criminal complaint against Epstein, in 1996, stressed the release of the files is not a political issue but one that has been buried too long.
“Please remember that these are crimes that were committed against real humans, real individuals. This is not a political issue. This, this has been going on for decades,” Annie Farmer said. “My sister Maria Farmer reported this under the Clinton\u2019s administration, right? There have been mistakes that were made in this case under the Bush administration. So many things have happened over the decades that were law enforcement failures in this case.
“This is not partisan. We\u2019re asking for you to stand with us now to release all of the files,” she continued.
Bensky has said she was 17 and a budding ballerina in 2004 when Epstein sexually abused her at his Manhattan mansion.
“When you look at how long this has spanned, we have to do something about it. And it really is not political. It’s never been political for us,” she said.
Both women were among a group of survivors who wrote a letter <\/a>thanking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., for backing the effort to release the Epstein files in a dramatic split from her party line<\/a>.
The women said that the tone of emails in a trove of Epstein-related documents <\/a>lawmakers on the House Oversight and Reform Committee released last week didn\u2019t shock them and that they hope it signals a new era of transparency.
\u201cI think it\u2019s the type of misogyny and classism and the tone of some of these emails that people were really disturbed by was, was something that we were all very aware of, was a part of this group and these types of conversations,” Farmer said. “I think that it was actually nice to see other people looking into that world and being disgusted by it.\u201d
Epstein died by suicide in jail in 2019 as he was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Maxwell, his accomplice, was convicted in 2022 on federal sex trafficking charges<\/a> and is reportedly seeking to have her prison sentence commuted.
While survivors have repeatedly stressed the Epstein case shouldn\u2019t be politicized, it has been a political lightning rod on Capitol Hill.
President Donald Trump, who was mentioned in some of the released Epstein emails<\/a>, directed the Justice Department on Friday to investigate Epstein\u2019s involvement with financial institutions and political figures<\/a> while taking aim at Democrats. Trump has denied any involvement in Epstein\u2019s crimes.
Hallie Jackson is senior Washington correspondent for NBC News.
Marlene Lenthang is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
© 2025 NBCUniversal Media, LLC<\/p>\n

source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

news AlertsThere are no new alerts at this timeSeveral women who survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein have come together for a public service announcement video demanding that Congress release all files on the accused sex trafficker.\u201cIt\u2019s a call to action,\u201d one of the women, Danielle Bensky, told NBC News on Sunday. \u201cWhile we are Epstein […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}