Epstein abuse survivors urge lawmakers to back bill that would release all files

Annie Farmer speaks alongside other survivors outside the Capitol in Washington DC, on Wednesday. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse signaled their support on Wednesday for a bipartisan resolution to release all the files related to the convicted sex offender, who died in a Manhattan prison in 2019.

Speaking outside the US Capitol, Anouska De Georgiou, a survivor of both Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, said that while “every day of this journey toward healing has come at a profound cost to my mental health”, she had chosen to be there because this legislation “really matters”.