WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will be allowing Congress to get unredacted access next week to some of the files that are related to the federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein for sexually abusing minors.

On Jan. 30, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Epstein files included more than 6 million pages, but The Epstein Files Transparency Act allows for some records to be withheld.

The Justice Department has a library with more than 3 million pages online that includes a “privacy notice” citing “sensitive” redactions related to “victims” and “private individuals.”

To view that unredacted library, the attorney general’s office instructed lawmakers to access those records at a reading room that will open on Feb. 9 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., from Monday to Friday.

Security will not allow lawmakers to have electronic devices while using the designated computers, but handwritten notes will be allowed.

In 2005, a detective in Palm Beach County took a 14-year-old girl seriously and started an investigation. In 2006, State Attorney Barry Krischer sent the case to a grand jury, and Epstein was indicted on one count of soliciting prostitution.

In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to one count of soliciting prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution from someone under 18, and he was sentenced to 18 months in jail.

In 2018, The Miami Herald’s Julie Brown reported on the role of Alexander Acosta, Trump’s labor secretary and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, who approved a non-prosecution agreement that allowed Epstein to plead guilty to lesser state charges rather than federal charges.

The FBI investigates the convicted sex offender again and arrests him on July 6, 2019. U.S. attorneys in Manhattan filed sex trafficking charges. Officials in New York announced Epstein died by suicide on Aug. 10, 2019, at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

In 2020, U.S. attorneys in Manhattan filed charges against Epstein’s ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell and accused her of participating in and facilitating the sexual abuse of minors.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre was among the women who described abuse by Epstein and who fought for the release of the files that they said proved that Epstein and Maxwell had trafficked them to prominent figures.

Officials in Australia announced Giuffre, the author of “Nobody’s Girl,” had died by suicide on April 25, 2025, in Neergabby. The mother of three was 41.