A Washington, D.C., reading room displaying 3,437 bound volumes of Jeffrey Epstein-related records opens to the public by appointment, with private sessions available for survivors, advocates, law enforcement and accredited press.
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A public exhibit displaying 3.5 million pages of records related to Jeffrey Epstein is set to open Tuesday in Washington, D.C., after a previous run in New York drew thousands of in-person visitors and millions of online viewers.
The Donald J. Trump and Jeffery Epstein Memorial Reading Room will feature 3,437 bound volumes of Epstein-related records in an exhibit scheduled to remain open through Friday. The installation is being organized by the Institute for Primary Facts, which describes the project as a tribute to Epstein’s victims and survivors.
The records were previously displayed in New York, where about 10,000 people visited the Tribeca reading room during a 16-day run in May. Organizers said about 85 million people viewed the exhibit online. Names of victims will not be visible to viewers.
The Washington reading room will be located in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood at 737 7th St. NW. It will be free and open to the public by appointment. The volumes will be displayed during public hours, but visitors will not be permitted to open them.
Private morning sessions will be available for survivors, advocates, law enforcement and accredited members of the press, according to the Trumpsonian website. During those sessions, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., volumes may be opened and read with assistance from a librarian.
The exhibit focuses in part on Epstein’s connections to prominent public figures, including President Donald Trump. Epstein and Trump, both New Yorkers, were photographed and known to have socialized at parties in Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump later sought to distance himself from Epstein after Epstein was arrested in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges.
“I was not a fan of his,” Trump told reporters, while also saying he had not spoken with Epstein in 15 years.
Epstein was charged in Florida in 2006 by a local grand jury with soliciting a prostitute. In 2007, he and federal prosecutors reached a non-prosecution plea agreement in the case.
Epstein, who had acquaintances among some of the world’s most powerful men, died by suicide in a New York City detention center in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges related to sex offenses.
David Garrett, an organizer with the Institute for Primary Facts, said the exhibit is intended to help the public understand the scale of the case.
“We just wanted to do something where people could really understand the full weight and gravity of this horrific case,” Garrett told WTOP News.
The Justice Department released the roughly 3.5 million pages online in January. The release did not result in additional criminal charges.
The Washington run will also include talks, signings and question-and-answer events open to different groups. Organizers said they plan to continue moving the reading room to other cities after the D.C. exhibit closes.
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