{"id":301744,"date":"2025-12-04T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/us-lawmakers-release-videos-of-epsteins-private-island-hideaway-why-now-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:01:09","slug":"us-lawmakers-release-videos-of-epsteins-private-island-hideaway-why-now-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/us-lawmakers-release-videos-of-epsteins-private-island-hideaway-why-now-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers release videos of Epstein&#8217;s private island hideaway. Why now?  | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/xfvFSdhyrSA\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"US lawmakers release videos of Epstein's private island hideaway. Why now?  | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xfvFSdhyrSA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Democrats in the US House of Representatives have released images taken on the island owned by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<br \/>\nThe footage, filmed in 2020, comes to light as the Trump administration is under pressure to release all the Epstein files kept by the US Justice Department. Multiple survivors allege they were trafficked and sexually abused on the island known as Little St. James in the US Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Videos of Epstein Island released by Democrat lawmakers<br \/>\n00:36 Scott Lucas, professor of American Studies at University College Dublin. <\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats in the US House of Representatives have released images taken on the island owned by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The footage, filmed in 2020, comes to light as the Trump administration is under pressure to release all the Epstein files kept by the US Justice Department. Multiple survivors allege they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[130114,129335,131089],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-301744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news","tag-democrats","tag-house","tag-representatives"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US lawmakers release videos of Epstein&#039;s private island hideaway. 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