Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie named 14 individuals on the House floor as Jeffrey Epstein coconspirators who he believes should be investigated and prosecuted.
Massie made the accusations during an Aug. 31 floor speech, citing the protections afforded by the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause, which broadly shields members of Congress from civil or criminal liability for legislative statements.
“On the House floor tonight, I read the names of several Epstein coconspirators who should be investigated and prosecuted,” Massie wrote in a Monday night post on the social platform X.
The 14 individuals Massie named include Jes Staley, Leon Black, Les Wexner, David Copperfield, Lapo Elkann, Tom Pritzker, Glenn Dubin, Frédéric Fekkai, Edoardo Teodorani, Jean-Luc Brunel, Daniel Siad, Ramsey Elkholy, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and Lesley Groff.
Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, was among the most prominent figures Massie called out by name during the speech.
Every individual Massie mentioned who has spoken publicly about their relationship with Epstein has denied any wrongdoing.
Alongside his floor remarks, Massie launched a discharge petition seeking 218 signatures to force a House vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act II.
“I also began collecting 218 signatures for the discharge petition to force a vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II,” Massie wrote in the same X post.
The proposed legislation would expand access to federal Epstein records for victims, state prosecutors, and members of Congress, and allow new court challenges over material the Justice Department has withheld or redacted.
Massie noted during his speech that “it’s been a year since the president signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act,” referencing legislation he spearheaded alongside Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) that led to the release of some Epstein-linked files.
“And the government continues to withhold over three million files,” Massie said, arguing that the follow-up bill is needed to bring “the fight to the state courts, accountability to the Department of Justice and closure for survivors.”
A 2019 FBI document released this year identified Wexner as a “co-conspirator,” though it described the evidence concerning him as limited, and his representatives have said a federal prosecutor told his attorneys in 2019 that he was neither a co-conspirator nor a target.
Brunel, a French modeling agent accused of helping procure girls for Epstein, died in a French jail in 2022 while awaiting trial on sexual assault charges.
Siad, another modeling industry figure whose name appeared in Epstein records, was found dead near Paris in July.
