Jeffrey Epstein survivor says pedophile's 'biggest brag' was ties to Trump

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News on Sep 3, 2025

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Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex ring Wednesday called for the release of all files on the notorious pedophile and one said the abuser’s “biggest brag” was his cozy relationship to President Donald Trump.

“The truth is: Epstein had a free pass. He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current President Donald Trump,” said Shauntae Davies, one of Epstein’s victims, at a dramatic press conference outside the U.S. Capitol. “It was his biggest brag, actually.”

“Jeffrey and Ghislaine (Maxwell) were very vocal about their friends, their famous and powerful friends,” Davies added. “Jeffrey Epstein’s biggest brag forever was that he was a very good friend with Donald Trump. He had an 8-by-10 framed picture of him on his desk with the two of them.”

Another Epstein victim emphatically pushed back against Trump’s effort to turn the page on the furor over the sex ring and urged him to listen to their testimony.

“This is not a hoax,” said Haley Robson. “We are real human beings. This is real trauma.”

But Trump refuses to back down. In an extraordinary split screen moment seconds after the press conference ended, Trump repeated his claim that the firestorm over Epstein is a partisan “hoax” designed to detract from his supposed achievements.

“It’s a Democrat hoax that never ends,” Trump said at an unrelated White House event. “It’s totally irrelevant to the success we’ve had as a nation since I became president.”

The drama comes as a bipartisan group of lawmakers, including a handful of right-wing Republicans, push Trump and Republican congressional leaders for much more transparency on the investigation into Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial in 2019.

The GOP-led House Oversight Committee this week publicly posted some files it has received from the Justice Department on the sex trafficking investigations into Epstein and Maxwell, his convicted accomplice.

But critics say almost all the documents were already public and the effort was a brazen effort to deflect attention from the mounting pressure in Congress to force more disclosure in the case.

The Epstein survivors, some of whom have never spoken in public before, provided a powerful human side to the political drama roiling the nation’s capital over the infamous scandal.

“(Our) voices matter, (our) stories must not be forgotten,” said victim Anouska de Georgiou. “This is about ending secrecy wherever abuse of power takes root.”

Annie Farmer, who says she and her sister were abused by Epstein and Maxwell more than two decades ago, vowed to continue the fight.

“We are not going away,” Farmer said. “We are not going to be quiet and we are not going to give up.”

Marina Lacerda identified herself as “Minor Victim No. 1” in the federal case against Epstein. The Brazilian immigrant said the government must help the victims win justice and repair the damage done to them.

“The worst part is the government is still in possession of information that could … help me heal,” she said. “I don’t have any of it.”

The victims sharply denounced the Trump administration’s treatment of Maxwell, including moving her to a cushy minimum security prison camp after she gave an interview to a top Justice Department lawyer and mostly backed Trump’s claims that he wasn’t involved in Epstein’s misdeeds.

They demanded Trump rule out pardoning Maxwell, a step he has refused to take.

“She participated in the abuse,” Robson said. “This woman abused children….She was complicit.”