Lesbian comedienne and talk show hostess Rosie O’Donnell posted a video on Thursday of herself and seven survivors of now-deceased billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein singing Helen Reddy’s 1972 feminist power anthem “I Am Woman,” to protest the Trump administration’s failure to fully release the investigatory files related to Epstein.
“After the corrupt AG (trumps former personal lawyer) implied that he did not believe men accused of sex abbuse [sic] would be charged as a result of the epstein files – despite mountains of evidence … i called some epstein survivors [and] asked them to sing with me,” O’Donnell wrote on the video’s caption on Instagram.
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“I know it’s been very hard for you women, with very little support,” she told the survivors in the video. “And I’m sorry that our country is so f**ked up, that this is what you have to live through, because you’re all heroes and you’re going to change how the world deals with child sex abuse.”
For the video, the women all wore white — a color that historically symbolized purity and solidarity with the women’s suffrage movement — and sang the lyrics, “I am woman, hear me roar / In numbers too big to ignore / And I know too much to go back to pretend / ‘Cause I’ve heard it all before / And I’ve been down there on the floor / No one’s ever gonna keep me down again / Whoa, yes, I am wise / But it’s wisdom born of pain / Yes, I’ve paid the price / But look how much I gained / If I have to, I can do anything / I am strong / I am invincible / I am woman.”
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The video ends with words on screen reading: “Support survivors. Epstein files.”
Trump’s attorney general and former personal lawyer Todd Blanche has previously has previously said that the Department of Justice (DOJ) agency has not uncovered “evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties” in relation to the files.
But this week, anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) i ntroduced a bill to compel the DOJ to release more files related to Epstein. Massie has accused the DOJ of “unlawfully withhold[ing] over 3 million Epstein files that should be released to the public” in accordance with a congressional law passed last November. The law required the DOJ to release all the files with minimal redactions by December 2025; it finally released around 3.5 million files in January of this year.
Massie’s new legislation, the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, would allow state attorneys general, Epstein’s former victims, and congressional legislators to sue the DOJ for “failure to comply” with the November 2025 law; including concealing, falsifying, withholding, or misrepresenting files. Over 100 legislators have signed onto Massie’s new legislation so far.
“The DOJ is unlawfully maintaining heavy redactions on the files it is releasing,” Massie wrote, according to Newsweek. “State attorneys general and victims should have the right to sue the Attorney General of the United States to compel compliance with a transparency law President Trump signed.”
Last November, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) accused gay Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent of hiding other files that could reveal more vital information about Epstein’s crimes and his accomplices.
Wyden said that the treasury records would help reveal where Epstein got his money, how he acquired and controlled his victims, who he trafficked them to, which individuals and banks enabled Epstein’s misdeeds, who else had control of Epstein’s accounts, and what crimes they committed.
“Bessent’s not only hiding these docs, he bizarrely claimed Treasury has no role investigating them at all,” Wyden continued. “It’s a lie. It’s impossible someone with his background doesn’t know about Treasury’s extensive role investigating the kinds of fínancial crimes Epstein must have been committing.”
A bombshell New York Times article published in June repeatedly stated that Trump and his closest White House staff had held numerous meetings discussing how best to delay any release of the Epstein files and how best to protect Trump from any insinuations that he was at all involved in Epstein’s crimes.
Trump has been accused of having sex with “many girls” supplied to him by Epstein. The accusation — made by Sarah Ransome, a woman who said Epstein sexually exploited her — came to light in recently unsealed court documents. Trump, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least 26 women, has denied the accusations.
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