Democrats Disclose Most Recent Set of Jeffrey Epstein Photographs as DOJ Cut-off Date Looms

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The House investigative committee has released a collection of around 70 photographs from the estate of late adjudicated individual convicted of sex crimes Jeffrey Epstein.

This represents the third release from a tranche of more than 95,000 photos the panel has secured from Epstein's estate. It contains pictures of quotes from the literary work Lolita scrawled across a woman's body, and redacted images of women's international passports.

This disclosure arrives just hours before the 19th of December cut-off for the Department of Justice to make public each files related to its inquiry into Epstein.

"These latest images raise further queries about exactly what the Justice Department has in its custody," said the senior Democrat of the panel, Robert Garcia.

What's in the Images Disclosed

A number of the photos published on Thursday show Epstein in discussion with scholar and advocate Noam Chomsky inside a personal aircraft; Bill Gates standing alongside a woman whose face is redacted; Steve Bannon seated at a workstation opposite Epstein, and former Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner event.

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These are the latest wealthy, influential individuals to be seen in Epstein property photos disclosed by the oversight panel - formerly released photos also include US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as director Woody Allen, ex- US treasury secretary Larry Summers, attorney Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and other figures.

Showing up in the photos is not proof of any misconduct, and a number of the featured men have stated they were in no way participating in Epstein's unlawful actions.

In a press release issued alongside the photograph release, Lawmakers on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein property holders did not provide background information or dates for the photographs.

"Photos were selected to furnish the public with openness into a illustrative selection of the photographs acquired from the property, and to provide understanding into Epstein's associates and his exceptionally disturbing actions," the release states.

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The publication also contains multiple photographs of quotes from the Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita written in ink across several locations of a female's body, including her upper body, foot, hipbone, and back. Lolita recounts the account of a young girl who was exploited by a adult literature professor.

An example of a quote from the work scrawled across a woman's torso states, "Lolita's name: the end of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the roof of the mouth to land, at three, on the teeth".

The release also contains a series of images of female passports and identification documents from countries worldwide, like Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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The majority of the information on the IDs, including identities and dates of birth, is redacted but the committee indicated in a press release that the travel documents are associated with "women whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators were involved with".

A further image depicts Epstein positioned at a table in close proximity in the company of three women whose identities have been redacted - a first has her hand on Epstein's torso under his shirt, and another is leaning to examine a adjacent laptop. Epstein appears to be helping the final person attach a piece of jewelry.

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Another photo disclosed is a image of text messages from an unnamed person who states they have been supplied "a number of girls" and are demanding "$one thousand dollars per girl".

Photo Disclosure Occurs Ahead of DOJ Due Date

The committee has many thousands of photographs in its custody from the Epstein holdings, which are "simultaneously graphic and everyday," its press release on recently clarified.

The House Oversight Committee first subpoenaed the estate of Epstein, who passed away in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while pending legal proceedings on accusations of human trafficking, in August.

The images and documents the Epstein estate's representatives submitted to the body are separate from what is often termed "the Epstein files". Those files are records within the Department of Justice's control connected to its own probe into Epstein.

Pursuant to the recently passed law, which President Trump signed into law in November, the DOJ has until the date of 19 December to release its files. The extent of what's found in the DOJ's documents is not publicly known, and it's probable that much of the content will be heavily redacted, similar to the committee's documents