Brittany Henderson and Brad Edwards, lawyers who represent victims of Epstein, are now speaking.

Edwards says evidence is being hidden behind "protective orders, confidentiality agreements and bank secrecy laws".

He says the American people "deserve to see everything".

He says CIA and FBI files, as well as financial records, should all be made available.

"When you see the documents you are going to be appalled," he says. "Evil flourishes in the darkness."

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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a staunch Trump supporter and Republican, says this is not a partisan issue.

She says the victims at the rally have lived through "unimaginable horrors". She says they are going to "fight like hell" for these women.

"The truth needs to come out - and the government holds the truth," Greene says.

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Republican Thomas Massie is now speaking.

"I hope my colleagues are listening to this press conference. I want them to think, what if this was your sister, what if this was your daughter?" he asks.

He says the US establishment is asking the people to "believe something that is not believable" - that two individuals created hundreds of victims and acted alone, and that the Justice Department has "no idea" who else was involved.

He says the pages released by the department are "heavily redacted", and that "97% of this is already in the public domain".

He adds that perpetrators are being protected because they are "rich and powerful", and have the right connections.

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Democrat member Ro Khanna is now speaking, with Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene standing behind him, and Republican Thomas Massie there too.

Khanna says there are "corrupt" forces that are preventing the release of the full Epstein files.

"There is something that is rotten in Washington," he says. He demands that all the files be released.

Less than 1% of these files have been released so far, he claims.

As a reminder, another 33,000 files were released on Tuesday - although lawmakers say most were already public.

Lawyer Arick Fudali now says Ghislaine Maxwell, who is in jail, should not have been "rewarded" with a "minimum security resort".

He demands the government release the Epstein files.

"No more slow rolling... release the files," he says, in order to give the victims "the accountability, exposure and closure" they deserve.

A lawyer named Arick Fudali is now speaking on behalf of a survivor identified as Rosa.

This is the first time Rosa has publicly been named as a survivor of Epstein.

"Rosa was trafficked from Uzbekistan under the guise of a modelling contract in 2009," Fudali says.

"Rosa should not be here today, none of you should be here today," he says.

He adds that Rosa flew to Washington DC last night inspired by the solidarity shown by the others at the gathering.

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Jess Michaels is up next. She says she was raped by Epstein in 1991 and for 27 years, she thought she was "the only one".

"But I wasn't the only one, none of us were," she says - adding that survivors demand truth and accountability.

"This moment began with Epstein's crimes but it is going to be remembered for survivors demanding justice, demanding truth, demanding accountability. And we will not stop."

Epstein accuser Haley Robson has been speaking at the news conference in Washington DC.

"I prayed for this moment," she says to a vocal, supportive crowd.

She adds that she wants "to acknowledge all the women who could not be here today". We should not forget the "voices that were silenced".

Some politicians have "weaponised" the victims’ trauma, she says.

She says "the FBI knows the truth, the government knows the truth… but we are the keys, we know who was involved... we know the players".

A rally in support of Epstein victims has started in Capitol Hill, with some of Epstein's accusers speaking to a vocal crowd.

Click watch live at the top of this page to follow along.

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Die-hard members of Trump's MAGA movement have long believed officials are hiding key truths about Epstein's life and death.

Some of them have theorised that a child-molesting cabal has been operating at the highest levels of US society, protected by the state. The theory spread through cryptic messages posted by a pseudonymous character called Q.

In one of the unfounded conspiracy theories pushed by some MAGA influencers, Epstein was even an agent of the Israeli government.

Some Trump allies have tried to quell the backlash. Last month, Republican House leaders announced an early recess for the chamber, stalling efforts to force the release of Epstein-related documents within 30 days.

There are several unanswered questions about Epstein shared by the wider population too, particularly:

• Why he was given a lenient sentence in Florida
• Whether he and Ghislaine Maxwell were acting alone
• How he was allowed to take his own life in prison

Trump and his team hyped up the theories when they were running for office. Now they are in power, they have found themselves unable to convince their supporter base there are no more questions to answer.

• Read more: Why the Epstein case looms large in MAGA world

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Before he became the central figure in a high-profile sex trafficking case, Jeffrey Epstein was a maths teacher and powerful financier in New York City.

Courting the rich and famous with private jets and lavish parties in the 1980s, Epstein’s business grew to manage hundreds of millions of dollars in clients’ assets.

Among the celebrities he socialised with were US President Donald Trump, former president Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew.

"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy," Trump told New York magazine in 2002.

In 2005, the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home. He avoided federal charges and instead received an 18-month (1.5-year) prison sentence.

Since 2008, Epstein had been listed as a level three on the New York sex offenders register. It was a lifelong designation meaning he was at a high risk of reoffending.

In July 2019, he was arrested in New York on sex trafficking charges, accused of running "a vast network" of underage girls for sex.

After being denied bail, he was held in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he was found dead in his cell months later.

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In just under an hour, several of Jeffrey Epstein's victims will speak at news conference in Washington DC.

The family of Virginia Giuffre are expected to be among the speakers. Giuffre, who had long detailed her abuse by Epstein, died by suicide in Australia in April.

Giuffre had alleged that Epstein and his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, trafficked her to Prince Andrew when she was 17. Prince Andrew has consistently denied all allegations against him.

In 2022, the prince reached an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre. The settlement included a statement in which he expressed regret for his association with Epstein.

More recently, President Trump said he believed Giuffre was one of the workers "stolen" from his Palm Beach club by Epstein.

A posthumous memoir by Giuffre is set to be published next month. Read more of our coverage here:

• Virginia Giuffre memoir to be published months after death
• Virginia Giuffre's death leaves unanswered questions

Overnight - as we covered in this page - more than 33,000 pages of files related to Jeffrey Epstein were released by the US House Oversight Committee.

And in a few hours' time, victims of the sex-trafficking financier will speak on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. We're expecting to hear from 10 women - some of them speaking publicly for the first time.

Some have pushed for the release of all files related to the investigations into Epstein, whose 2019 death in a federal jail sparked intense public speculation. The government ruled his death a suicide.

While 33,000 pages may seem like a lot, it is believed that the Department of Justice has about 100,000 pages of materials on Epstein.

After the batch of files was made public on Tuesday, Representative Robert Garcia, the ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said most of the documents released were already public.

"After careful review, Oversight Democrats have found that 97% of the documents received from the Department of Justice were already public. There is no mention of any client list or anything that improves transparency or justice for victims," he said.

The victims are expected to speak at 10:30 ET (15:30 BST). We will live stream their comments at the top of this page, with text updates as well, so stay with us.

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Live page editor

More than 33,000 pages of documents and several videos have been released by the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday.

This follows repeated calls from both Democrats and Republicans for Trump's administration to release the files.

Our reporters have been going through some of the material - it includes videos that apparently show interviews with victims of Epstein, as well as two more hours of footage from the night of Epstein's death.

Republican Mace has welcomed today's news and says she hopes the "full truth" comes out.

However, both Democrats and Republicans - including the chairman of the committee that ordered the release - have said almost all the content released today is already public information.

It's unclear what impact today's release will have on the Epstein controversy, but the issue is likely to stay in the headlines, as several of Epstein’s victims are due to hold a high-profile news conference with lawmakers on Wednesday.

We’ll be covering their statements tomorrow - for now, we’re pausing our coverage here.

Thanks for joining us.

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Today's release follows last month's publication of the US Department of Justice interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, who was an accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein.

In the transcripts - which run to 300 pages, some heavily redacted - Maxwell said that while she believed Trump and Epstein were friendly "in social settings", she didn't think they were close friends.

"I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting," she said - referring to the massage services some Epstein victims have mentioned.

"The president was never inappropriate with anybody."

"In the times I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects," she added.

She also said she didn't recall Trump sending Epstein a 50th birthday note in 2003, which made headlines recently after being reported in the Wall Street Journal.

In the interview, she was also asked about the alleged "client list" of high-profile personalities that's become the focus of conspiracy theories in recent years.

Maxwell was asked about several well-known figures, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, actor Kevin Spacey, model Naomi Campbell and Prince Andrew - whom she denied introducing to Epstein.

The list of Epstein's high-profile associates has become a focal point for conspiracy theorists, who insist it's being kept hidden by the "deep state" to protect prominent participants in Epstein's crimes.

Several figures in Trump's administration - including FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino - repeated those claims in the past, although they've since backtracked.

"There is no list," Maxwell said.

We've just heard from the top Democrat on House Oversight, Robert Garcia.

"To the American people – don’t let this fool you,” he says in a statement, noting that the documents released today were mostly already public information.

“After careful review, Oversight Democrats have found that 97% of the documents received from the Department of Justice were already public. There is no mention of any client list or anything that improves transparency or justice for victims.”

More now on the videos released today.

They do include footage from outside Epstein's jail cell on the night he died, according to the BBC's US partner CBS News.

What's available now is 13 hours and 41 seconds of video from the Metropolitan Correctional Center's Special Housing Unit, covering the evening of 9 August to the morning of 10 August 2019, when Epstein died.

That's two hours more than what the Justice Department released two months ago. Officials said that earlier release was raw footage, but a cursor on the screen raised questions.

CBS also reports that this version of the footage doesn't include the so-called "missing minute" - a minute jump in the timecode between 23:00 and 00:00.

Attorney General Pam Bondi previously said the "missing minute" was just the jail's camera system resetting each night.

Nardine Saad
US reporter

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Dozens of videos released today don't include descriptions or information to help viewers understand what they're about to see.

One set of videos seems to show surveillance footage from outside Jeffrey Epstein's New York prison cell, dated 9 and 10 August - the day he was found dead while awaiting sex trafficking charges.

There's little to no action in these clips.

With no description provided, it's difficult to confirm if the footage is actually from Epstein's cell.

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The release comes just hours after lawmakers met on Capitol Hill with several victims of Epstein's abuse.

After the meeting, Democrat Melanie Stansbury describes the case as a "cover-up of epic proportions" and praises the survivors for speaking out.

Democrat Summer Lee says the documents should have been released more quickly. "No one should be above the law - not princes, not elected officials, not wealthy billionaires - and it was the government itself that failed these women."

Just to remind you, lawmakers and victims of Epstein plan to hold a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

While campaigning for the presidency, Donald Trump promised to release files about Jeffrey Epstein, after years of conspiracy theories swirling online.

Since Trump returned to office in January, some supporters have grown frustrated with how his administration has got on with this pledge.

Here’s a look back at the key dates:

21 February

Attorney General Pam Bondi tells Fox News that a list of Epstein’s clients is “sitting on my desk right now”. The White House later says she was referring to all the files related to Epstein's crimes.

28 February

Bondi says federal investigators are withholding thousands of documents about Epstein, and asks the FBI to release all the information.

26 April

Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein of sexual assault, dies by suicide aged 41, her family says. The prince has long denied any wrongdoing.

6 June

Tech billionaire Elon Musk posts on X that Trump is “in the Epstein files”, referring to court documents and evidence thought to have been collected by investigators. The White House dismisses the post, which Musk deletes.

7 July

The US Department of Justice and FBI conclude in a report that Epstein did not have a so-called client list that could implicate high-profile associates, and that he did take his own life - contradicting long-held conspiracy theories.

17 July

Trump asks Bondi to release "any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony" on Jeffrey Epstein, after what he calls a "ridiculous amount of publicity".

18 July

Trump sues Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch, its parent company and two reporters after the newspaper reported that his name appeared on a "bawdy" 2003 birthday card to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. US officials ask New York federal court to unseal transcripts from the grand jury involved in the government's 2019 sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein.

24 and 25 July

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche meets with Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.

1 August

Ghislaine Maxwell is moved to a new federal prison in Texas known to have better living conditions.

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