发布时间：2026年2月5日，美国东部时间上午5:00 / 作者：杰里米·赫布、MJ·李、尼基·罗伯逊
美国司法部未能对许多杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）受害者的身份信息进行脱敏处理，反而编辑了可能协助这名已定罪性犯罪者的个人信息，引发了受害者的强烈抗议。他们指责司法部在上周处理超过300万份文件的发布工作中严重失误。
美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）对爱泼斯坦相关文件的审查发现，有多个案例显示，身份信息被脱敏处理的人可能帮助爱泼斯坦接触女性，其中包括21世纪初备受期待的爱泼斯坦草案起诉书中被编辑的同谋者。
一名脱敏处理后的个人在2015年发给爱泼斯坦的电子邮件中写道：“这个（我认为）完全是你的女孩。”
在文件中的另一封2014年电子邮件中，有人写道：“感谢你度过了一个愉快的夜晚……你最小的女孩有点调皮。”但发送该消息的人的姓名被编辑了。
美国司法部周五发布了其称是法律要求公开的最后一批爱泼斯坦文件，但这些文件引发了对持续缺乏透明度和爱泼斯坦众多受害者寻求正义的广泛抗议。
爱泼斯坦的受害者对处理不当的脱敏措施感到愤怒，包括对受害者向联邦调查局（FBI）陈述的内容进行了脱敏处理。
“这对受害者来说不是正义”：爱泼斯坦受害者对司法部文件发布感到愤怒
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司法部一名官员在声明中表示，所有完全脱敏的姓名都是受害者的。“正如公开记录中充分记载的那样，在许多情况下，最初的受害者后来成为了参与者和同谋者，”该官员称，“我们没有对男性姓名进行脱敏，只对女性受害者进行了脱敏。”
该官员还表示，联邦调查局和执法机构人员的姓名也被脱敏处理。
与此同时，司法部正忙于纠正受害者信息的不当披露问题。
周二晚，司法部与一些爱泼斯坦受害者的律师达成协议，避免了周三在联邦法院举行听证会。此前，这些律师指控司法部在文件中泄露了近100名爱泼斯坦受害者的信息。
司法部副部长托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）周一承认“出现了错误”，但辩称司法部已迅速采取行动纠正任何因无意而披露的信息。
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对于爱泼斯坦的受害者来说，司法部的回应是不可接受的。
“我的生活片段以那种方式被公之于众，真的很麻烦，”达尼·本斯基（Dani Bensky）在与爱泼斯坦受害者的圆桌会议上告诉CNN，她表示自己的姓名、地址和电话号码最初都出现在文件中。
“我知道我现在是公开的，是的，这伤害了我——但这对那些仍然是‘Jane Doe’（身份不明者）的幸存者姐妹来说，伤害更大，”她补充道。
关于爱泼斯坦文件中包含和未包含的内容引发的争议，突显了司法部周五发布的超过300万份文件远非爱泼斯坦案件文件斗争的终点——尽管布兰奇和唐纳德·特朗普总统都表示他们认为是时候继续前进了。
国会在去年11月通过《爱泼斯坦文件透明度法案》（Epstein Files Transparency Act）后，迫使司法部披露这些文件，尽管特朗普最初表示反对。但推动该法律通过的两党议员表示，仍有数百万份文件未被公布，司法部辩称这些文件属于法律不要求披露的例外情况。
加州民主党众议员罗·科哈尼（Ro Khanna）和肯塔基州共和党众议员托马斯·梅西（Thomas Massie）领导了文件披露工作，他们要求查看未脱敏的文件，并仍在威胁司法部长帕姆·邦迪（Pam Bondi），如果不披露更多文件，将对其进行弹劾或藐视法庭指控。
“司法部在某些领域用全面脱敏保护了爱泼斯坦受害者群体，却在其他领域未能保护幸存者的身份，”科哈尼在给CNN的声明中表示，“国会无法在没有完整记录的情况下，正确评估司法部对爱泼斯坦和麦克斯韦案件的处理。”
“没有理由进行脱敏”
周五发布的文件包括与爱泼斯坦有过接触的众多知名男性的姓名——爱泼斯坦于2019年在联邦性交易指控审判前自杀——其中包括特朗普、前总统比尔·克林顿、比尔·盖茨、埃隆·马斯克和前安德鲁王子等。所有人都否认与爱泼斯坦有任何不当行为，且从未被执法部门指控犯罪。
但爱泼斯坦的受害者表示，这些文件似乎保护了那些专门协助这名已定罪性犯罪者实施虐待的人，以及可能在受害者陈述中被完全脱敏的其他男性。
一名爱泼斯坦受害者指出，文件中还有一份FBI表格，其中整页内容都被涂黑。
“它基本上概述了这个人经历的一切以及她向FBI报告的内容。这有七页长，其中四页看起来就是这样，”杰斯·迈克尔斯（Jess Michaels）在接受CNN采访时表示，“她经历了什么，是谁做的，这些也被编辑了。所以你不能说‘没有男性，没有名单’，同时又对这么多内容进行脱敏。因为如果没有男性，就没有理由进行脱敏。没有其他理由。”
文件中最受期待的文件之一是21世纪初佛罗里达州南区备受争议的草案起诉书，该起诉书本应指控爱泼斯坦和另外三人，他们被描述为“受雇于”爱泼斯坦。
这些人都被描述为参与了“劝说、引诱和诱骗未满18岁的人进行卖淫”的共谋行为，但他们的姓名被脱敏处理了。
文件还包含大量与爱泼斯坦的电子邮件往来，这些邮件似乎描述了招募女性的过程。
一名来自巴黎模特经纪公司的脱敏处理后的个人在2013年发给爱泼斯坦的电子邮件中写道：“新来的巴西女孩，性感又可爱，19岁。”
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这封电子邮件在文件中出现了两次：在一个版本中，模特经纪公司的名称被脱敏，但在另一个版本中，该公司名称未被从发件人签名中脱敏。
在2018年发给爱泼斯坦的电子邮件中，另一名脱敏处理后的个人写道：“我找到了至少3个非常好的年轻穷人。”
“见见这个，”该人继续说道，“不是选美皇后，但我们都很喜欢她。”
司法部在周五给国会的信中详细说明了脱敏处理的方式，称其通过脱敏受害者信息、儿童性虐待材料以及任何可能危害正在进行的调查的内容来遵守法律。
司法部还扣留了20万页“受各种特权保护的文件，包括审议过程特权、工作成果原则和律师-客户特权”，根据该信。
布兰奇在上周五宣布文件发布的新闻发布会上表示，这些文件中不包含可能导致对虐待女性的男性进行起诉的证据信息。
“我之前说过，有一种固有假设，即存在我们知晓但隐瞒或选择不起诉的男性相关信息。事实并非如此，”布兰奇说，“我不知道是否有男性虐待这些女性。”
紧急处理文件
在司法部周五发布文件后的几个小时内，CNN报道称，包括匿名“Jane Doe”受害者在内的多名幸存者发现自己的姓名和信息出现在公布的文件中。
一些受害者的律师发送了一封信，称司法部未能妥善脱敏受害者信息已引发“正在发生的紧急情况”，要求纽约两名联邦法官“立即进行司法干预”。
周日的信中包括了多名匿名“Jane Doe”受害者的证词，他们称自文件公布以来，媒体的报道给他们带来了死亡威胁和骚扰。
“当司法部认为准备好发布文件时，它只需要在自己的搜索功能中输入每个受害者的姓名。任何出现的结果都应该在发布前进行脱敏处理。如果司法部这样做了，就可以避免这种伤害，”律师们写道。
司法部在向法官提交的回应中表示，它已移除了受害者或其律师指出的所有相关文件，司法部发言人表示，有500名审查人员正在查看这些文件“就是为了这个原因”。
“错误是由——你知道，有非常勤奋的律师过去60天一直在工作。想想看：你在谈论的文件堆得像从地面到两个埃菲尔铁塔那么高，”布兰奇周一在福克斯新闻上表示，“自周五以来，一旦有受害者或其律师联系我们，我们立即处理并将其下架。”
爱泼斯坦的受害者表示，即使姓名被纠正，这些文件的发布仍然是司法部未能保护他们的又一个例子。
“公布受害者的照片同时保护施虐者，这完全是正义的失败，”爱泼斯坦受害者沙琳·罗查德（Sharlene Rochard）告诉CNN，“当本应保护你的系统反而造成了所有这些伤害时，会有一种深深的背叛感。”
Justice Department under scrutiny for revealing victim info and concealing possible enablers in Epstein files
PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2026, 5:00 AM ET / By Jeremy Herb, MJ Lee, Nicky Robertson
The Justice Department failed to black out identifying information about many of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims and redacted the details of individuals who may have aided the convicted sex offender, prompting an outcry from survivors who accuse DOJ of botching the release of more than 3 million documents last week.
A CNN review of the Epstein documents identified several examples of people whose identities were blacked out possibly helping to connect him with women, including redacted co-conspirators in a much-anticipated draft indictment of Epstein from the 2000s.
A redacted individual wrote in one 2015 email to Epstein: “And this one is (i think) totally your girl.”
In another 2014 email in the files, a person wrote to Epstein: “Thank you for a fun night… Your littlest girl was a little naughty.” But the name of the individual who wrote that message is redacted.
The Department of Justice on Friday released what it said was the last of the Epstein files that it was required to disclose by law, but the documents have prompted widespread outcry about a continued lack of transparency and justice for Epstein’s many survivors.
Epstein survivors are up in arms about the mishandled redactions, including blacked out statements that victims made to the FBI.
“This is not justice for survivors”: Epstein victims furious about DOJ’s release of files
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A DOJ official said in a statement that any fully redacted names are of victims. “In many instances, as it has been well documented publicly, those who were originally victims became participants and co-conspirators,” the official said. “We did not redact any names of men, only female victims.”
FBI and law enforcement names were also redacted, the DOJ official said.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department has been scrambling to fix the improper disclosure of victim information.
The Justice Department narrowly avoided a hearing in federal court on Wednesday by reaching an agreement late Tuesday with lawyers for some of the Epstein survivors, who had accused DOJ of releasing information about nearly 100 Epstein victims in the files.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche acknowledged Monday that “mistakes were made” but argued that DOJ has moved expeditiously to correct any information unintentionally released.
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For Epstein survivors, the DOJ’s response is unacceptable.
“To have pieces of my life be out there on display in that way, was really troublesome,” said Dani Bensky, who told CNN in a roundtable with Epstein survivors that her name, address and phone number were all initially in the files.
“And I know that I’m public now, yes, it hurts me — but it really hurts our survivor sisters who are still ‘Jane Does’ even more,” she added.
The furor over what is and isn’t included in the Epstein documents highlights how the department’s release of more than 3 million documents on Friday is hardly the end of the fight over the Epstein files — even as both Blanche and President Donald Trump have said they think it’s time to move on.
Congress forced the disclosure of the Epstein documents after passing the Epstein Files Transparency Act last November over Trump’s initial objections. But the bipartisan group of lawmakers who pushed for the law’s passage say there are still millions of files that have not been released, which the DOJ argued fell within exceptions to the law not requiring their disclosure.
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California and GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who led the effort to release the files, have asked to view the unredacted files — and are still threatening Attorney General Pam Bondi with impeachment or contempt for failing to comply with the law if more are not disclosed.
“The DOJ has protected the Epstein class with blanket redactions in some areas while failing to protect the identities of survivors in other areas,” Khanna said in a statement to CNN. “Congress cannot properly assess DOJ’s handling of the Epstein and Maxwell cases without access to the complete record.”
‘There’s no reason to redact it’
The documents released on Friday include the names of numerous high-profile men who interacted with Epstein — who died by suicide in 2019 awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges — a list that included Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and the former Prince Andrew, among many others. All have denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein and have never been charged by law enforcement with any crimes.
But Epstein survivors say the files appear to shield those who specifically enabled the convicted sex offender’s abuse, as well as other men who may have been named in the survivors’ statements that were completely redacted.
One Epstein survivor pointed to another FBI form contained in the files where full pages were blacked out.
“It basically outlines everything that this person experienced and shared with the FBI. It was seven pages long and four of them looked like this,” Jess Michaels told CNN in an interview. “What happened to her and who did it is also reacted. So you cannot say in the same sentence: ‘There were no men, there was no list’ and redact this much of a statement. Because if there’s no men, then there’s no reason to redact it. There’s no other reason.”
One of the most anticipated documents in the files was the controversial draft indictment from the Southern District of Florida from the 2000s, which would have charged Epstein, along with three others, who were described as having been “employed” by Epstein.
The individuals are all described as having conspired to “persuade, induce, and entice individuals who had not attained the age of 18 years to engage in prostitution.” But their names are redacted.
The files also include numerous email exchanges with Epstein that appear to describe the procurement of women.
A redacted individual from a Paris modeling agency wrote in a 2013 email to Epstein: “New Brazilian just arrived, sexy and cute, 19yo .”
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The email appears in the files twice: In one version, the modeling agency’s name is redacted, but in another, the agency is not redacted from the sender’s email signature.
In a 2018 email to Epstein, another redacted individual wrote: “I found at least 3 very good young poor.”
“Meet this one,” the person continued. “Not the beauty queen but we both likes her a lot.”
In a letter to Congress on Friday, the Justice Department detailed how it made redactions, saying it complied with the law by redacting victim information, child sex abuse materials and anything that would jeopardize an active investigation.
DOJ also withheld 200,000 pages “covered by various privileges, including deliberative process privilege, the work-product doctrine, and attorney-client privilege,” according to the letter.
At his press conference last Friday announcing the release of the files, Blanche said they did not contain information about evidence that would lead to the prosecution of any men who abused women.
“I said this earlier, there’s this built-in assumption that somehow there’s this hidden tranche of information of men that we know about that we’re covering up or that we’re choosing not to prosecute. That is not the case,” Blanche said. “I don’t know whether there are men out there that abuse these women.”
Scrambling to scrub files
In the hours after Friday’s DOJ release, CNN reported that multiple survivors, including anonymous “Jane Doe” victims, were seeing their names and information throughout the documents that were published.
Attorneys for some of the survivors sent a letter saying the DOJ’s failure to properly redact victims’ information had trigged an “unfolding emergency,” asking two federal judges in New York for an “immediate judicial intervention.”
Sunday’s letter included testimony from various anonymous “Jane Doe” victims who described receiving death threats and harassment from the media since the publication of the files.
“When DOJ believed it was ready to publish, it needed only to type each victim’s name into its own search function. Any resulting hit should have been redacted before publication. Had DOJ done that, the harm would have been avoided,” the lawyers wrote.
DOJ said in a response filed to the judges that it had removed all documents that victims or their lawyers identified, and a Justice Department spokesperson had said it had 500 reviewers looking at the files “for this very reason.”
“Mistakes were made by – you have really hard-working lawyers that worked for the past 60 days. Think about this though: you’re talking about pieces of paper that stack from the ground to two Eiffel Towers,” Blanche said Monday on Fox News. “The minute that a victim or their lawyer reached out to us since Friday, we immediately dealt with it and pulled it down.”
Epstein’s survivors say the release of names, even if corrected, is yet another example of how the Justice Department failed them.
“Publishing images of victims while shielding predators is just a failure of complete justice,” Epstein survivor Sharlene Rochard told CNN. “There’s this deep sense of betrayal when the systems meant to protect you becomes the one causing all of this harm.”