Epstein Survivors Praise House Panel After Leon Black Contempt Vote (9/18/26)

More than a dozen Jeffrey Epstein survivors praised the House Oversight Committee after it voted 41-0 to recommend holding Leon Black in contempt of Congress for refusing to fully comply with subpoenas seeking his testimony and nondisclosure agreements. The survivors said the unanimous committee vote sent a clear message that wealth and influence should not place anyone beyond congressional scrutiny, and they urged lawmakers to keep following the Epstein evidence wherever it leads. The contempt recommendation marked a major escalation in the committee’s fight with Black, who had previously appeared for a voluntary transcribed interview but refused to answer questions about NDAs, later skipped a scheduled September 3 deposition and did not produce all of the agreements demanded by the committee. Black has denied wrongdoing and denied knowing about Epstein’s criminal conduct, while his attorneys have argued that the subpoenas are unlawful, overbroad and intrusive.

The survivors’ statement also came as Oversight Chairman James Comer introduced the Survivor’s Voice Protection Act, legislation designed to prevent NDAs from silencing survivors of sexual abuse and to require certain trusted adults to report suspected grooming of minors. Comer said the bill grew directly out of the committee’s Epstein investigation and what lawmakers had learned about powerful men using confidentiality agreements to suppress allegations. The committee said it had already conducted 19 depositions and transcribed interviews, released about 65,000 pages of documents and obtained Epstein-related bank records. The broader message from survivors was that the Black contempt fight should not be treated as an isolated dispute, but as part of a larger effort to force transparency from people who moved within Epstein’s network and to break through legal agreements that may have kept relevant information hidden.


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