{"id":129898,"date":"2026-02-04T02:02:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/thousands-of-epstein-documents-taken-down-after-victims-identified\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T02:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:02:47","slug":"thousands-of-epstein-documents-taken-down-after-victims-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/thousands-of-epstein-documents-taken-down-after-victims-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Epstein documents taken down after victims identified"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 \u2013 The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has removed thousands of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein from its website after victims said their identities had been compromised.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lawyers for Epstein\u2019s victims said flawed redactions in the files released on Friday had \u201cturned upside down\u201d the lives of nearly 100 survivors.<\/p>\n

Email addresses and nude photos in which the names and faces of potential victims could be identified were included in the release.<\/p>\n

Survivors issued a statement calling the disclosure \u201coutrageous\u201d and said they should not be \u201cnamed, scrutinized and retraumatized\u201d.<\/p>\n

The DOJ said it had taken down all the flagged files and that mistakes were due to \u201ctechnical or human error\u201d.<\/p>\n

Several of Epstein\u2019s victims added comments to the letter, including one who described the release as \u201clife-threatening\u201d and another who said she had received death threats after her private banking details were published.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the BBC on Tuesday, Epstein survivor Annie Farmer said: \u201cIt\u2019s hard to focus on the new information that has been brought to light because of how much damage the DOJ has done by exposing survivors in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another of Epstein\u2019s victims, Lisa Phillips, said that many of the survivors were \u201cvery unhappy with the outcome\u201d of the release.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe DOJ has violated all three of our requirements,\u201d she told BBC\u2019s Newsday on Tuesday. \u201cNumber one, many documents still haven\u2019t been disclosed. Number two, the date set for release has long passed. And number three, DOJ released the names of many of the survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cWe feel like they\u2019re playing some games with us but we\u2019re not going to stop fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gloria Allred, a women\u2019s rights lawyer who has represented many of Epstein\u2019s victims, previously told the BBC that numerous victims\u2019 names had been disclosed in the latest release, including some who had not been identified publicly previously.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn some cases\u2026 they have a line through the names but you can still read the names,\u201d she said. \u201cIn other cases, they\u2019ve shown photos of victims \u2013 survivors who have never done a public interview, never given their name publicly.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the DOJ told the BBC\u2019s US news partner CBS that it \u201ctakes victim protection very seriously and has redacted thousands of victim names in the millions of published pages to protect the innocent\u201d.<\/p>\n

They added that the department was \u201cworking around the clock to fix the issue\u201d and \u201cto date 0.1% of released pages\u201d had been found to have unredacted information that could identify victims.<\/p>\n

Millions of files relating to Epstein have been released by the DOJ since a law mandated their release last year, including three million pages, 180,000 images and 2,000 videos last Friday.<\/p>\n

That release came six weeks after the department missed a deadline signed into law by US President Donald Trump under bipartisan Congressional pressure that mandated all Epstein-related documents be shared with the public.<\/p>\n

Epstein died in a New York prison cell on 10 August 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 \u2013 The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has removed thousands of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein from its website after victims said their identities had been compromised. Lawyers for Epstein\u2019s victims said flawed redactions in the files released on Friday had \u201cturned upside down\u201d the lives of nearly 100 survivors. Email addresses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}