Six women who say they were trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein or his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell issued a unified plea Tuesday for the federal government to release more investigative files and pressed President Donald Trump to rule out a pardon for Maxwell.
The panel also refused to back any unsupported claims of wrongdoing by Trump in terms of his relations with the late Jeffrey Epstein or his victims.
Appearing in Washington, D.C., the women spoke with NBC News in a panel that also included relatives of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of the most prominent Epstein accusers, who died by suicide in April.
“Epstein was a master manipulator,” said Jess Michaels, who alleges Epstein raped her in 1991 when she was 22. “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.”
Michaels said she came forward because of what she called a “severe miscarriage of justice” and a “delay in accountability.”
Other accusers included Wendy Avis, Marijke Chartouni, Jena-Lisa Jones, Lisa Phillips, and Liz Stein. All voiced support for making Epstein-related files public, echoing calls from lawmakers in both parties. The comments came just hours before the Republican-led House Oversight Committee released more than 33,000 pages of documents tied to Epstein.
