Overview
- A January 2015 email released by the House Oversight Committee shows Ghislaine Maxwell telling Jeffrey Epstein she was advised to say she was not aware of a "massage w/andrew in my house."
- The message is part of more than 20,000 pages of newly published Epstein-related documents, which also include an email in which Epstein told a journalist the photograph of Andrew with Virginia Giuffre was real.
- Survivors have described "massage" as a euphemism for sex, and Virginia Giuffre had alleged she was made to have sex with Andrew at Maxwell’s Belgravia home when she was 17; Andrew has consistently denied the claims and settled Giuffre’s civil case in 2022 without admitting liability.
- House Oversight Democrats, led by Rep. Robert Garcia, invited Andrew to sit for a transcribed interview and requested a reply by November 20, though Congress cannot compel testimony from foreign nationals and Garcia lacks subpoena power.
- Newsweek reports the House plans a Tuesday vote on whether to force broader release of the Epstein files.