In August 2025, a claim spread online that survivors of abuse by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
The rumor circulated — often alongside a photo collage of eight women who accused Epstein of sex abuse — on platforms such as Facebook, X,
As of this writing, survivors of abuse by Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell,
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.