House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) speaks to reporters before the House Oversight Committee at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on March 18, 2026.
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The chairman of the House committee investigating late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Friday he planned to hold a hearing to give Epstein’s victims a chance to speak about his crimes against him.
Representative James Comer’s promise to hold those hearings came a day after First Lady Melania Trump urged Congress to “give the women victimized by Epstein … a public hearing specifically centered around the survivors.”
“I agree with the first lady and I appreciate what she said,” Comer, R-Ky., said in a Fox News interview. “We will have a hearing.”
Comer said the hearing into Epstein’s victims will be held after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee takes testimony from several high-profile people associated with Epstein and his former associates.
“I always planned to hold hearings with the victims,” Comer told Fox News.
“My lawyers on the Oversight Committee have been in constant communication for months with lawyers representing Epstein’s victims,” he said.
“There are some victims who are willing to come forward. Most victims are not, and I completely understand that. But we have always planned to hold hearings with Epstein victims after testimony is completed.”