Epstein victims vow to compile list of abusers: ‘We know the names’

Accusers of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said this week they will compile their own list of powerful figures they allege abused them through Epstein’s trafficking network. 

One accuser, Lisa Phillips, told NBC News in a Sept. 2 interview that survivors have been compiling names. She urged others to participate.

“Please come forward,” she said, “and we’ll compile our own list and seek justice on our own.”

Phillips, a model who identified herself as a survivor and said she was taken to Epstein’s island in 2000, reiterated the plan during a Sept. 3 conference on Capitol Hill. She told reporters that victims “will confidentially compile the names we all know who were regularly in the Epstein world.” 

Nearly a dozen self-described survivors and family members joined Phillips at the Capitol to demand that Congress pass a discharge petition that would force the release of all federal files tied to Epstein. 

Phillips claimed that in New York “countless young women were abused” by Epstein, but his ties to powerful figures made him “too powerful to stop,” and “his value to those friends made him untouchable.”

She pressed lawmakers to examine the government’s role in allowing Epstein “to operate openly.” 

“Who was he to our government that he was allowed to operate openly for decades?” Phillips asked. “Why was he allowed to sponsor visas for young models, using their immigration status as leverage to abuse them?”

She added that Epstein “was not just a serious predator — he was an international human trafficker. And many around him knew this, many participated, and many profited. And yet he was protected.”

Questions surrounding information related to Epstein surged after the Justice Department and the FBI released a July 7 memo stating that the late financier died by suicide and had no “client list,” CatholicVote reported.

When asked about the Capitol Hill event Sept. 3, President Donald Trump again dismissed the controversy as a “Democrat hoax that never ends.” 

He said the uproar is meant to distract from the success of his presidency. 

As CatholicVote previously reported, in a July 16 Truth Social post, Trump criticized his “PAST supporters” who “bought into this ‘bulls‑‑‑,’ hook, line, and sinker.”