Four women who have accused President Donald Trump of inappropriate sexual contact signed onto a letter sent Friday to Congress by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, demanding the release of all the files on the accused sex trafficker.
They were joined by four relatives of Virginia Giuffre, an outspoken Epstein accuser who died by suicide in April.
“Dear Esteemed Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives,” the letter began. “You have the ability to vote to release the Epstein files, and with it, deliver a promise the American people have awaited far too long. We implore you to do so.”
Writing “there is no middle ground here,” the letter writers said the crimes committed by Epstein, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and their co-conspirators, “exposed a double standard of justice, where rich and powerful men and women evade repercussions.”
The Trump accusers who signed the letter are Alva Johnson, Natasha Stoynoff, Karena Virginia, and Amy Dorris.
Alva Johnson sued Trump over the alleged misconduct, but dropped the suit in 2019 citing fears for her safety. She said at the time she still stands by her allegations. Trump has denied engaging in inappropriate behavior with all four women.
While it is well-documented that Trump and Epstein were once friends, the president has repeatedly denied any involvement in — or prior knowledge of — Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. Trump has said the two had a falling out, reportedly around 2007, after he discovered Epstein was stealing employees from the Mar-a-Lago club. Trump has never been charged with any criminal activity involving the now dead Manhattan financier.
NBC News has reached out to the White House for comment on the latest development in the ongoing Epstein saga.
Epstein died by suicide in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Maxwell was convicted in 2022 on federal sex trafficking charges in connection with Epstein’s crimes and is reportedly trying to get her prison sentence commuted.
The letter to Congress appeared a day after Epstein accusers Liz Stein and Jess Michaels, in an interview with NBC News, urged Congress to compel the Justice Department to release all of the Epstein files. Both Stein and Michaels signed the letter to Congress.
On Wednesday, emails released by the House Oversight Committee revealed, among other things, that Epstein said Trump “knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop,” but didn’t accuse him of any wrongdoing.
Some emails in which Epstein mentioned Trump included the redacted name of a victim, who the White House and Republicans on the House Oversight Committee identified as Giuffre.
The committee said on social media that the name was not redacted when it received the documents.
In one of those emails, Epstein wrote that Giuffre spent hours at his house with Trump. But Giuffre never accused Trump of any wrongdoing.
Sky Roberts, Giuffre’s brother, told NBC on Thursday he condemned the administration for unredacting Giuffre’s name, calling it “a disrespect to survivors.”
“I don’t personally know if she was involved with President Donald Trump. She said it herself that he was always very nice to her,” Roberts said.
Roberts is a signatory on the letter to Congress along with his wife, Amanda, one of Giuffre’s brothers, Danny Wilson, and Wilson’s wife, Lanette Wilson.
Maria Farmer, the first woman to file a criminal complaint against Epstein, also signed the letter. So did Farmer’s sister, Annie Farmer, who also said Epstein and Maxwell preyed on her.
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