In a private meeting last week, a group of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse and family members of the late Virginia Giuffre pointed House Oversight Chair James Comer to allegations fromthe Justice Department’s Epstein filesto further investigate, arguing that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s suggestion there were no more leads to pursue in the case is not true.
The group brought documents from DOJ’s released Epstein files – an email detailing a list of men from the late convicted sex offender’s orbit, as well as Giuffre’s 2015 testimony to investigators – to help the Republican chairman refine his own probe and to argue there are allegations against powerful men that the Justice Department could pursue.
The private meeting between the survivors and the House Oversight Committee provides a fresh window into the back channeling between the two groups and the pressure the survivors are applying as they seek accountability as the investigation into the late convicted sex offender and his orbit has largely stalled under Blanche.
The survivors presented Comer a partially redactedset of emailsfrom July 2025 that showed FBI officials were aware of an email discussing building out a spreadsheet of allegations against more than a dozen men.
“Take these names and build out new spreadsheet w all the derog on them,” a redacted individual says in one of the emails on the chain, referring to the list of 14 men.
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That list includes some who have previously testified to the committee – like Bill Clinton and Les Wexner – and other high-profile names – such as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and President Donald Trump – who have not appeared before the panel. A CNN review of thepublic Epstein files revealedthat agents started to gather allegations for each of the 14 men named later that same day.
Clinton and Wexner, who have appeared before the committee for videotaped and transcribed interviews, have each denied any wrongdoing and knowledge of Epstein’s crimes. CNN has reached out to Mountbatten-Windsor, who has also vehemently denied any and all wrongdoing in his dealings with Epstein.
Trump has consistently denied wrongdoing related to Epstein, and White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told CNN 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 immediately clear from the files what the FBI and DOJ did to pursue the outlined allegations for the 14 men. The women in the meeting disputed Blanche’s claims – including to CNN’s Dana Bashin February andto FOXin April – that there was nothing in the files that would lead to prosecution and that the files should not be part of cases brought by the current Justice Department.
CNN has reached out to the DOJ, FBI, and representatives of the other men for comment on the email exchange and testimony provided to Comer.
Comer soon acted on at least some of the information provided to him by the survivors.
After meeting with them, the Republican chairman announced he would ask attorney 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 said inits request.
A spokesperson for the committee told CNN 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 long publicly maintained he has never done anything wrong or illegal related to Epstein or his victims, told CNN on Monday: “I did absolutely nothing wrong. That’s why I volunteered to testify.”
