Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky on CNN on December 23, 2025 (Image: Screengrab via CNN / YouTube)
One woman who survived abuse at the hands of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is now taking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to task for what she characterizes as "carelessness" toward protecting survivors' names and identifying information.
On Tuesday, the DOJ announced it had released another batch of documents as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that President Donald Trump signed into law last month (after fiercely opposing it in prior months). While the law allowed the DOJ the discretion to make redactions in order to safeguard victims and prevent ongoing investigations from being jeopardized – and while many documents are heavily redacted – some women Epstein abused were outraged to find their information had not been redacted, while the names of some co-conspirators had.
During a Tuesday segment on CNN's Erin Burnett Outfront, Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky said many of the women victimized by Epstein have felt that the DOJ has so far been "intentionally careless" about not adequately protecting survivors while simultaneously going out of its way to keep the names of men who associated with Epstein hidden.
"I saw a page today where Virginia's [Giuffre] name is out there, and [Prince] Andrew's name is redacted," Bensky said. "... And so, it just really poses the question of like, what are we doing here? And this whole quest for transparency, like, survivors are not playing games. We are not here to play games. We are not here to be political pawns. We've been saying that from the beginning."
Bensky described how Epstein could simultaneously make her feel "so special" while making her feel "like a piece of trash" moments later, and that she sometimes felt "like an absolute ghost" in his house. She then said that the DOJ's alleged indifference toward survivors like her put her back in that space.
"The re-victimization is in the system's failures," she said. "... And they are re-victimizing us in the same way. They gave us this moment of the transparency act, where we passed a law and we were like, 'we're seen, we're here, we've arrived.' And now to see the carelessness of the way that they're handling survivors, it's just abhorrent. It's it's exhausting."
"We're so tired of just saying, like, please take us out of your games. Just give us the truth," she added.
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