LOS ANGELES — An alleged victim of the late Jeffrey Epstein who filed a police report against him in 1997 in Santa Monica for sexual battery called Monday for “transparency” and urged House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files.

Alicia Arden , 56, says she was sexually assaulted by Epstein at Shutters on the Beach hotel in Santa Monica in 1997 when she was 28 and an aspiring Victoria’s Secret model.

Arden, speaking at a news conference Monday at the side of her attorney Gloria Allred, said Epstein told her he was a model scout for the Victoria’s Secret catalogue and invited Arden to his hotel room to look at her portfolio.

The actress said that after Epstein asked her to sit closer, “he started touching me … and said, ‘Let me manhandle you.’ It was becoming apparent I wo

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