The Daily Populous Wednesday August 27th, 2025 evening edition
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Claim: As of late August 2025, survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sex abuse planned to hold a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 3, 2025. Rating: About this rating True

In August 2025, a claim spread online that survivors of abuse by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein planned to hold a news conference on Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

The rumor circulated — often alongside a photo collage of eight women who accused Epstein of sex abuse — on platforms such as Facebook, X, Instagram and LinkedIn. Several posts claimed that some survivors would be speaking about their experience publicly for the first time.

As of this writing, survivors of abuse by Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, were , in fact, planning to hold a news conference on Sept. 3, as Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., first announced in Aug. 11 social media posts. In those posts, Massie and Khanna said they would speak at the event about their co-sponsored bill to release the so-called "Epstein files."

One of the lawyers representing the survivors, Brad Edwards, confirmed the accuracy of Massie's and Khanna's posts via an Aug. 26 email to Snopes. Thus, we've rated this claim true.

According to the two lawmakers' posts, they will hold the news conference at 10:30 a.m. in the House Triangle, a location outside the U.S. Capitol often used for these sorts of events. Massie's post said several of the survivors "will be speaking out for the first time," a detail Edwards also confirmed via email.

A spokesperson for Khanna's office, Sarah Drory, said in an Aug. 26 email that 10 survivors were planning to join the news conference.

As of this writing, the names of those attending the news conference have not been released "out of respect for their privacy," Drory said, meaning it was not clear whether any of the women depicted in the social media posts about the claim would attend. One of the survivors shown in those posts — pictured at the top left of the collage — was Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's most-prominent accusers, whose family announced that she died by suicide in April 2025.

The exact number of Epstein's victims is unclear, but there were significantly more than the eight depicted in the collage. The Department of Justice alleged in a July 2025 document that Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial for federal sex-trafficking charges, "harmed over one thousand victims."

Homeless-Coward-2143 on August 27th, 2025 at 12:09 UTC »

Things we know:

Trump will say these people are "nasty"

coatofforearm on August 27th, 2025 at 12:05 UTC »

This was timed to put media pressure on congress since they come back in session soon...

Smithy2232 on August 27th, 2025 at 11:42 UTC »

Seems to me that some of the survivors would be able to name names.