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Visitors leave messages of support at Epstein files exhibition
A traveling exhibition of Epstein investigative files has invited visitors to leave messages on a cork board.
The reading room was first held in a New York City gallery in May, though its current location is not stated.
It aims to draw attention to Epstein’s crimes and decades of law enforcement failure to act.
Epstein was arrested in 2019 for sexually abusing teenage girls and died by suicide in jail; Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of luring girls into his orbit.
The boards quickly filled with notes, drawings and messages, and survivors Danielle Bensky and Liz Stein said the messages made survivors feel seen and believed.
Survivors have called for greater transparency and legal action against other people involved in the abuse, and the exhibition keeps attention on their calls for accountability.
Visitors have left messages of support for survivors at a traveling exhibition of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
The exhibition, called The Donald J Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, includes a space where visitors can leave notes.
Survivor Danielle Bensky said the notes filled at least six or seven corkboards about a week after the reading room opened.
Bensky said the messages helped survivors feel seen and believed amid years of institutional failures.
The exhibition aims to draw attention to Epstein’s crimes and law enforcement’s decades-long failure to act.
- Who
- Visitors have left messages for Epstein survivors, including Danielle Bensky and Liz Stein.
- What
- Visitors are leaving notes of support at a traveling exhibition of Epstein investigative files.
- When
- The exhibition was first held this May. Bensky returned about a week after it opened to the public.
- Where
- The Donald J Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room; its first installation was in a New York City gallery.
- Why
- The reading room aims to draw attention to Epstein’s crimes and law enforcement’s decades-long failure to act.
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The reading room was first held in a New York City gallery.
Bensky returned and saw at least six or seven corkboards full and overflowing with notes.
The notes took up the better part of the exhibit’s downstairs.
- Exhibition name
- The Donald J Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room
- First location
- A New York City gallery
- Notes seen by Bensky
- At least six or seven full, overflowing corkboards
- Exhibition organizer
- Institute for Primary Facts
- Epstein arrest
- 2019
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