Judge holds hearing on shutting down Epstein files site after victim privacy failures

A federal judge in New York held a hearing on February 3, 2026, on a motion by attorneys for more than 200 alleged Epstein victims to shut down the DOJ's Epstein Files website, launched January 30 with over 3 million pages of documents. Lawyers identified thousands of redaction failures, including minor victims named up to 20 times in a single document. The DOJ removed several thousand documents and attributed failures to human and technical error; at least one victim received death threats after banking information appeared unredacted.