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Oversight Panel

The House investigative committee has released a set of around 70 photos from the estate of deceased found guilty sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This constitutes the third such release from a cache of in excess of 95,000 photographs the body has acquired from Epstein's property. It includes pictures of excerpts from the novel Lolita inscribed across a female's body, and censored images of women's overseas passports.

This disclosure arrives hours before the 19th of December deadline for the Department of Justice to release all documents connected to its probe into Epstein.

"These photos pose further questions about what exactly the Department of Justice has in its holdings," stated the ranking member of the committee, Robert Garcia.

Contents in the Images Made Public

Several of the photos released on this week show Epstein in discussion with academic and activist Noam Chomsky aboard a private plane; Bill Gates positioned beside a individual whose identity is obscured; Steve Bannon sitting at a table across from Epstein, and ex- Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a evening meal.

Investigative Body

These are the latest wealthy, powerful individuals to be photographed in Epstein's estate images released by the committee - earlier disclosed images also include US President Donald Trump and past president Bill Clinton, as well as director Woody Allen, former US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and additional individuals.

Showing up in the photos is does not constitute indication of any illegal activity, and many of the photographed individuals have asserted they were not involved in Epstein's criminal activity.

In a statement accompanying the image disclosure, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein property holders did not provide background information or dates for the pictures.

"Photos were selected to furnish the public with openness into a illustrative selection of the photographs obtained from the property, and to give insights into Epstein's circle and his exceptionally troubling behavior," the statement reads.

Committee

The disclosure also features multiple photographs of quotes from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita penned in ink across several locations of a woman's body, including her upper body, feet, hipbone, and back. Lolita recounts the story of a adolescent who was manipulated by a middle-aged literature professor.

One passage from the novel written across a woman's upper body says, "Lolita's name: the end of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the roof of the mouth to tap, at three, on the teeth".

There are also a collection of photographs of female passports and identification documents from states globally, such as Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

Committee

A large portion of the data on the papers, including identities and birth dates, is obscured but the committee indicated in a statement that the travel documents pertain to "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators were engaging".

Another image features Epstein positioned at a workstation in close proximity surrounded by three women whose faces have been redacted - a first has her palm on Epstein's chest under his shirt, and a second is crouching to view a adjacent device. Epstein can be seen to be aiding the final person put on a wristband.

Committee

An additional photograph disclosed is a capture of text messages from an unknown sender who claims they have been provided "several females" and are requesting "$one thousand dollars for each individual".

Image Release Arrives Ahead of DOJ Due Date

The panel has thousands of photos in its possession from the Epstein estate, which are "both graphic and ordinary," its statement on recently clarified.

The oversight panel first legally compelled the property of Epstein, who died in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking, in August.

The photographs and records the Epstein property provided to the committee are distinct from what is commonly called "Epstein-related records". Those are records within the DOJ's possession associated with its independent investigation into Epstein.

Pursuant to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump enacted in November, the DOJ has until 19 December to publish its files. The extent of what's found in the DOJ's files is not publicly known, and it's expected that a large amount of the content will be extensively obscured, akin to House Oversight Committee releases