Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein told NBC News Tuesday that they are taking matters into their own hands and will compile their own “client list” as frustration mounts over the Justice Department’s failure to release unredacted records from the notorious pedophile’s network.
Six survivors told NBC News in an exclusive sit-down that they have begun compiling their own lists of powerful figures linked to Epstein, accusing federal authorities of dragging their feet following outright denials in July from the Trump administration that a fabled blackmail list of the disgraced financier’s “clients” even exists.
“I’m coming here because there’s been a severe miscarriage of justice, a delay in accountability,” said Jess Michaels, one of the women speaking out.
“So, what would you say to the Department of Justice as they were pursuing these conversations with her?” NBC journalist Hallie Jackson asked of the DOJ’s interview with Epstein accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Another survivor on the panel, Lisa Phillips, replied to say that survivors are no longer waiting for the government to act.
“They have emails. They have flight logs. They have a list they’ve compiled, right?” she said. “And I feel like if they’re not going to release this list to the public that everybody wants to see, we want to know who it is.”
She continued: “A lot of us survivors know we’ve been compiling lists of our own and we have so many other survivors – please come forward – and we’ll compile our own list and seek justice for, you know, on our own. I mean, I think that’s what’s going to happen next.”
“Are there other prominent individuals that you saw when you were with Jeffrey Epstein and others who you think should be followed up on by law enforcement?” the journalist followed up.
“Well, let me get this straight, Jeffrey wasn’t doing this for himself,” Phillips replied. “I mean, let’s not beat around the bush. The parties, the charity events on the island, everyone that he was involved with, not everybody, because obviously there were people that didn’t – there were people that didn’t know about what he was doing. But there were many people that knew what he was doing that were involved in the sex trafficking ring.”
The Justice Department continues to face questions over its handling of Epstein’s files, particularly after his death in federal custody in 2019. Survivors now say they suspect deliberate delays, pointing to the Trump administration’s reluctance to make key documents public.
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