Lawmakers Disclose Latest Set of Jeffrey Epstein Photos as DOJ Deadline Nears

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The Congressional oversight panel has released a set of approximately 70 photographs secured from the holdings of late adjudicated sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This constitutes the third publication from a cache of over 95,000 photographs the committee has obtained from Epstein's estate. It features photographs of quotes from the novel Lolita inscribed across a woman's body, and redacted photos of female foreign passports.

This disclosure occurs just hours before the December 19th deadline for the DOJ to release all files associated with its inquiry into Epstein.

"These latest images pose further questions about what exactly the Justice Department has in its custody," stated the Democratic lead of the panel, Robert Garcia.

What is in the Photos Disclosed

Some of the photos released on Thursday show Epstein conversing with scholar and advocate Noam Chomsky on a private jet; Bill Gates standing alongside a female whose identity is redacted; Steve Bannon seated at a desk across from Epstein, and former Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner event.

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These are the newest high-net-worth, prominent figures to be seen in Epstein estate photos disclosed by the House Oversight Committee - formerly published images also depict US President Donald Trump and past president Bill Clinton, as well as movie director Woody Allen, ex- US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, counsel Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and others.

Showing up in the photos is not evidence of any wrongdoing, and a number of the pictured men have stated they were not implicated in Epstein's criminal activity.

In a announcement accompanying the image release, Democratic members on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein property holders did not provide background information or dates for the images.

"Photographs were selected to offer the American people with transparency into a representative sample of the images acquired from the holdings, and to provide perspectives into Epstein's circle and his profoundly troubling actions," the statement states.

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The release also contains multiple photographs of excerpts from the Vladimir Nabokov literary work Lolita written in dark ink across different parts of a woman's body, such as her upper body, feet, hip, and back. Lolita recounts the story of a minor who was exploited by a older literature professor.

An example of a excerpt from the book inscribed across a female's upper body states, "Lolita's name: the point of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to alight, at three, on the teeth".

There are also a collection of photographs of women's identification and ID papers from states around the world, like Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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A large portion of the details on the papers, such as names and birth dates, is censored but the committee said in a press release that the travel documents belong to "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators were involved with".

An additional photograph shows Epstein seated at a desk closely flanked by three female figures whose identities have been redacted - one has her hand on Epstein's upper body under his shirt, and a second is bending to view a nearby laptop. Epstein appears to be assisting the third attach a bracelet.

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An additional photo released is a image of SMS messages from an unknown person who claims they have been provided "several females" and are requesting "$1000 for each individual".

Photograph Publication Comes Before DOJ Deadline

The body has many thousands of photos in its possession from the Epstein property, which are "both explicit and everyday," its statement on recently noted.

The House Oversight Committee first issued a subpoena to the holdings of Epstein, who died in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while facing trial on allegations of sex trafficking crimes, in August.

The photographs and documents the Epstein estate gave to the panel are different than what is often called "the Epstein files". Those are documents within the justice department's control related to its separate inquiry into Epstein.

In accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump signed into law in November, the DOJ has until 19 December to disclose its documents. The scope of what is found in the DOJ's files is not publicly known, and it's likely that a large amount of the content will be heavily redacted, comparable to the committee's releases