The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives has voted to force the release of Justice Department files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an outcome President Donald Trump opposed for months before giving his approval.

Two days after Trump's abrupt about-face, the vote passed by 427-1, sending a resolution requiring the release of all unclassified records on Epstein to the Senate.

The public and increasingly bitter feud among Republicans over the Epstein files has fractured relations between Trump and some of his most ardent supporters.

Before the vote, about two dozen survivors of Epstein's alleged abuse joined a trio of Democratic and Republican lawmakers outside the US Capitol to urge the release of the records.

The women held photographs of themselves at

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