When Danielle Bensky first went to The Donald J Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, she didn’t know what to expect.
“What happens if I walk in and survivors’ names are just plastered everywhere?” Bensky wondered about the reading room, a traveling exhibition of Epstein investigative files, first held in a New York City gallery this May. “I was a little worried in the beginning that this would be a form of exploitation for survivors.
“Instead, it was just so beautifully done.”
The reading room is meant to bring attention to Epstein’s crimes and law enforcement’s decades-long failure to act. The former financier, who counted numerous high-profile men among his associates, was arrested in 2019 for sexual abuse of teen girls but killed himself in jail.
While Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested and found guilty of luring teen girls into Epstein’s orbit, documents reveal that law enforcement officials were well aware of their crimes decades prior.…