Epstein bombshell as NINE-year-old victim and 'senior government official' are revealed in redacted files
Jeffrey Epstein had a nine-year-old victim and was associated with a current top foreign government official, lawmakers have revealed after viewing redacted files.
Representatives Thomas Massie, a Republican, and Ro Khanna, a Democrat, revealed during a Monday press conference that six men are likely incriminated in the files.
The bipartisan duo has spearheaded the release of the Epstein Files since last July and pushed for a vote on their Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was eventually signed into law by President Trump.
Despite the law, they are still fighting for transparency as the DOJ released more than 3 million Epstein files on January 30, but the majority of them were heavily redacted.
Massie, of Kentucky, told reporters the files included an individual who is 'pretty high up in a foreign government' and urged Donald Trump's Justice Department to 'correct their mistakes'.
One document posted by Massie contains 18 redactions, four of them being men born before 1970.
Monday marked the first time members of Congress could view the unredacted files by visiting a Department of Justice building in Northeast Washington, DC, in person and accessing them on the DOJ's computers.
Representative Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, who also visited the DOJ office, said that the files contained several previously unreported young victims, one as young as nine.
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2005 in New York City
Representatives Thomas Massie, Republican from Kentucky, and Ro Khanna, Democrat from California, are leading the fight for the release of the Epstein files and are seen arriving at a Department of Justice office in Washington, DC, on February 9, 2026
'You read through these files, and you read about 15-year-old girls, 14-year-old girls, 10-year-old girls. I saw a mention of a 9-year-old girl today. I mean, this is just preposterous and scandalous,' Raskin said.
Epstein's longtime girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell pleaded the Fifth and refused to answer questions over Jeffrey Epstein at a closed-door hearing on Capitol Hill.
The jailed British socialite appeared virtually before lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee for less than an hour on Monday.
Maxwell was deposed as part of the bipartisan congressional investigation into the Justice Department's prosecution and handling of the Epstein case.
Speaking with reporters on Capitol Hill following Maxwell's depositions earlier on Monday, Khanna also warned that the fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal could pose a serious threat to the British monarchy, arguing that the controversy extends far beyond individual wrongdoing and into the heart of the U.K.'s political and social establishment.
Khanna said the Epstein case has exposed what he described as a culture of elite impunity, suggesting the monarchy is facing an unprecedented moment of vulnerability.
'This is the most vulnerable the British monarchy has ever been,' Khanna said, adding that the scandal could possibly bring about its downfall.
Congressman Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat speaks with the media after viewing the unredacted version of the Jeffrey Epstein files at the Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C., on February 9, 2026
Khanna pointed specifically to Prince Andrew's association with Epstein, as well as the involvement of prominent political figures such as Peter Mandelson, the former UK ambassador in DC, arguing that the release of Epstein-related files reveals a protected network of powerful individuals who have long escaped accountability.
According to Khanna, symbolic actions such as removing royal titles do not amount to meaningful accountability.
He also called out the silence from senior figures and said that King Charles III has a responsibility to address what he knew about the matter and when.
Khanna warned that if the British monarchy were to collapse under the weight of the Epstein revelations, the consequences would not be limited to the United Kingdom.
He said the scandal threatens to expose a broader transatlantic elite class, with implications reaching well beyond the royal family.
