Epstein victims sue Google, Trump administration for disclosing personal information

Epstein victims sue Google, Trump administration for disclosing personal information

By Jennifer Elias
Publication Date: 2026-03-27 17:44:00

A tablet screen displays a portrait of Jeffrey Epstein beside the U.S. Department of Justice website page titled Epstein Library, Feb. 11, 2026.

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A victim of notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of herself and other survivors against the Trump administration and Google for allegedly wrongfully disclosing and publishing personal information about them.

The suit, filed on Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, where Google is headquartered, claims the Justice Department “outed” about 100 Epstein survivors in late 2025 and early 2026, and that even after the government acknowledged the mistake and withdrew the information, “online entities like Google continuously republish it, refusing victim’s pleas to take it down.”

With respect to Google, the suit says the company’s core search engine and its artificial intelligence summary feature called AI mode were responsible for…