Giuffre Family Members Appear in Ad Targeting Colorado Republican Over Epstein Vote
The ad marks an instance where a victim's relatives have directly entered a congressional race to contest a sitting member's procedural vote on disclosure legislation.
The brother and sister-in-law of the late Virginia Giuffre, a named victim of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking network, appeared in a political advertisement released Monday targeting Rep. Jeff Crank (R-CO) for a vote they characterize as opposing disclosure of Epstein-related records, according to the Washington Examiner.
Sky Roberts, Giuffre's brother, and Amanda Roberts, his wife, appear in the advertisement, which was released by Jessica Killin, the Democratic challenger running to unseat Crank in Colorado's 5th Congressional District. The district, which covers Colorado Springs and surrounding El Paso County, has been held by Republicans for decades.
The advertisement directly links Crank's vote to what the Roberts family describes as a failure to release government records connected to Epstein. The specific legislative vehicle at issue is a congressional procedural vote on Epstein file disclosure. The precise roll call number and date of the vote referenced in the ad were not identified in the available source material. The official House Clerk's office maintains a complete public roll call record at clerk.house.gov, which would contain the specific vote and Crank's recorded position.
Virginia Giuffre died in April 2025. She had been among the most prominent accusers associated with Epstein's network and had filed civil litigation that named multiple public figures. Her death drew renewed attention to the status of sealed and unreleased records connected to federal investigations and civil proceedings involving Epstein.
Crank, first elected in 2022, represents a district that voted Republican by double digits in recent presidential cycles. Federal Election Commission filings for the 2026 cycle show Crank has been an active fundraiser, though the precise cash-on-hand totals for both Crank and Killin as of the most recent FEC quarterly deadline would need to be confirmed against the FEC's public filing portal at fec.gov to assess the competitiveness of the race in financial terms.
Killin's campaign releasing the advertisement through the Roberts family is a standard third-party testimonial format in congressional advertising. Whether any outside political action committee is financing the ad buy, and at what dollar amount, would be disclosed in FEC independent expenditure filings, which are publicly searchable. No such filing data was included in the available source material.
The use of crime victims' family members in political advertising has appeared in prior congressional cycles on both sides of the aisle. In competitive House races, advertising featuring named individuals associated with high-profile criminal cases has been used by candidates in both parties to draw contrasts on law enforcement and transparency issues.
The broader question of Epstein-related congressional disclosure has been a recurring issue in the current Congress. Legislation and amendments related to the release of Epstein files have been debated in both chambers, with votes split along lines that do not follow a strict party pattern, according to prior congressional record coverage. The specific amendment or bill Crank is alleged to have voted against has not been identified by name or bill number in the available source material.
Crank's office had not issued a public statement responding to the advertisement as of the publication of the Washington Examiner report. His position on Epstein disclosure legislation, beyond the single vote cited in the ad, is not reflected in the available source material.
What remains unknown is the precise bill or amendment number at issue, the full dollar amount of the ad buy, whether any super PAC is coordinating the campaign's messaging, and whether Crank has submitted any written response for the public record. The House Clerk's roll call archive, FEC independent expenditure database, and any floor statements entered by Crank into the Congressional Record would answer those questions.