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By Adeola Adeosun
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Survivors of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released a powerful public service announcement (PSA) on Super Bowl Sunday calling for full transparency in what they describe as the largest sex-trafficking scandal in the world.
The emotional video, released by World Without Exploitation, features survivors speaking directly to the public, demanding Americans stand with them and pressure U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all information related to the case.
The PSA's closing message states: "Stand With Us. Tell Attorney General Pam Bondi: IT'S TIME FOR THE TRUTH."
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Newsweek reached out to the Department of Justice (DOJ) via online form on Sunday for comment
Why It Matters
The timing of the commercial during one of the most-watched television events of the year demonstrates survivors' determination to keep public pressure on the DOJ.
Despite the DOJ's January 30 release of 3 million pages of records, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images under the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law by President Donald Trump, survivors and their advocates argue more transparency is needed.
The release represents only half of the 6 million documents originally reviewed, with remaining files containing child sexual abuse material, victim information, and legally protected records.
What To Know
Epstein's criminal history spans over a decade. The Epstein investigation began in 2005 when parents of a 14-year-old girl reported she had been molested at the millionaire's Palm Beach, Florida, home. Police identified at least 35 girls with similar stories of Epstein paying high school age students $200 or $300 for sexualized massages.
In 2008-09, he served jail time in Florida after pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl, despite police evidence showing he abused multiple underage girls. He was arrested again in 2019 on sex-trafficking charges but died in jail a month later in what was ruled a suicide. His associate Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in 2022 for helping recruit underage victims and is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.
An Associated Press review of internal DOJ records reveals that while investigators collected substantial proof that Epstein sexually abused underage girls, they found limited evidence he led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men. Videos and photos seized from Epstein's homes in New York, Florida and the Virgin Islands did not depict victims being abused or implicate anyone else in his crimes, according to a 2025 prosecutor memo.
An examination of Epstein's financial records, including payments to entities linked to influential figures in academia, finance and global diplomacy, found no connection to criminal activity, said another internal memo in 2019. While one Epstein victim made highly public claims that he "lent her" to his rich friends, agents could not confirm that and found no other victims telling a similar story, the records said.
The newly released documents reportedly include allegations involving several well-known public figures, including Trump. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche emphasized that being named in the files does not prove anyone committed a crime. Bondi told Fox News last year that Epstein's "client list" was "sitting on my desk right now," but FBI agents wrote superiors saying no such client list existed.
Last February, an FBI supervisory special agent wrote that while media coverage references a "client list," investigators did not locate such a list during the investigation.
Close to 3.5 million pages are now in the public domain under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the DOJ said. Blanche said more than 6 million pages were initially identified as potentially falling under the act.
About World Without Exploitation
World Without Exploitation, the organization behind the Super Bowl PSA, was founded in 2016 by a coalition including the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Demand Abolition, National Organization for Women/New York State, Sanctuary for Families, Survivors for Solutions, and The Voices and Faces Project.
The organization describes itself as a community of organizations and individuals working to create a world where no person is bought, sold, or exploited. According to the group, tens of thousands of people are trafficked and sexually exploited in America every day, including children, with millions more affected worldwide.
The organization advocates for laws and policies that hold those who purchase other human beings and profit from their sale accountable, while providing comprehensive support for survivors to exit exploitative systems and rebuild their lives.
A video released last November by the organization showed several women who survived abuse by Epstein demanding that Congress release all files on the accused sex trafficker.
Although the commercial isn't likely to be shown during the actual Super Bowl, the organization hopes millions of people will still see the PSA.
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What People Are Saying
Epstein survivors said in Sunday's PSA: "You don't 'move on' from the largest sex trafficking ring in the world. You expose it."
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told ABC News last week: "We took great pains…to make sure that we protected victims. Every time we hear from a victim or their lawyer that they believe that their name was not properly redacted, we immediately rectify that."
He added: "The nature of this type of review was so -- the volume of materials that were reviewed, that there would be times when this happened. And so we're, we're working hard to make sure that we fix that, and I expect that that will continue."
Danielle Bensky, an Epstein survivor, recently told CNN: "We have very little faith in the DOJ at this point."
What Happens Next
Survivors and their advocates are calling for continued public pressure on the DOJ to release all remaining documents that can legally be made public.
Starting later this week, NBC News reported that members of Congress will be able to begin reviewing the unredacted version of the Epstein files, according to two sources familiar with the DOJ’s plans.
Reporting from the Associated Press contributed to this article.
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