Pressure is mounting on the US Government to name those involved in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking ring.
It follows a new statement from the family of Australian victim Virginia Giuffre, who died earlier this year, directly criticising US President Donald Trump and calling for justice.
So, what are we missing about the Epstein files?
On Thursday afternoon’s two-part episode of The Briefing, we speak with journalist Lucia Osborne-Crowley to break down the latest developments, the high-profile names tied to the case, and why Ghislaine Maxwell could walk free with a Presidential Pardon.
“What we have is we have one person in jail for facilitating that ring,” Osborne-Crowley said, referring to Maxwell.
She warns that the so-called “Epstein files” may be little more than a distraction.
“But we don’t have anyone convicted for accessing that ring or being a client of Jeffrey Epstein in terms of the way that he would use underage girls. So that’s very concerning because we know from the victims that there were other men involved in this,” she said.
Osborne-Crowley, who has covered the Epstein case extensively, says there is already enough on the public record to justify criminal investigations.
“Donald Trump is obviously one of them… one of Jeffrey’s victims filed a lawsuit and said under oath that she had been sexually assaulted by Trump and trafficked to him by Epstein,” she added.
“The reason I think there is no institutional will to investigate this is just because there are so many powerful people implicated in it and it’s bipartisan.”
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