🔗 Share this article Congressional Democrats Disclose Newest Collection of Jeffrey Epstein Images as Department of Justice Time Limit Approaches Investigative Body The Congressional oversight panel has released a batch of approximately 70 photographs obtained from the property of former adjudicated sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. This marks the third release from a larger collection of in excess of 95,000 images the committee has obtained from Epstein's estate. It includes images of excerpts from the book Lolita written across a female's body, and censored pictures of female international passports. This action occurs just hours before the 19 December due date for the DOJ to disclose every documents related to its investigation into Epstein. "These latest photographs raise additional queries about exactly what the DOJ has in its custody," remarked the ranking member of the committee, Robert Garcia. What is in the Photos Disclosed Some of the images released on this week feature Epstein conversing with professor and activist Noam Chomsky aboard a private jet; Bill Gates seen next to a woman whose identity is censored; Steve Bannon seated at a workstation facing Epstein, and former Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a evening meal. Committee These are the most recent affluent, prominent figures to be seen in Epstein property photos released by the House Oversight Committee - previously released photos also show US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as film director Woody Allen, previous US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and other figures. Appearing in the images is does not constitute indication of any misconduct, and a number of the photographed figures have stated they were never involved in Epstein's criminal activity. In a statement issued alongside the photograph release, Democratic members on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein estate's representatives did not offer context or dates for the pictures. "Images were picked to provide the public with transparency into a illustrative selection of the photographs obtained from the property, and to provide understanding into Epstein's network and his profoundly troubling actions," the release reads. Committee The release also contains a number of photographs of excerpts from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita inscribed in black ink across different parts of a woman's body, including her torso, foot, hip, and back. Lolita narrates the account of a young girl who was groomed by a middle-aged literature professor. One quote from the novel written across a woman's torso says, "Lo-lee-ta: the end of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the mouth to tap, at three, on the teeth". Additionally, there are a series of photographs of women's travel documents and identification documents from nations worldwide, such as Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine. Investigative Body The majority of the data on the papers, including identities and birth dates, is obscured but the panel indicated in a announcement that the travel documents are associated with "individuals whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators were engaging". Another image features Epstein positioned at a workstation intimately flanked by three female figures whose faces have been redacted - a first has her hand on Epstein's upper body under his clothing, and a second is leaning to look at a adjacent computer. Epstein can be seen to be assisting the third attach a piece of jewelry. Investigative Body An additional photograph disclosed is a capture of text messages from an unidentified person who claims they have been provided "several females" and are asking for "$$1,000 per female". Photo Disclosure Comes Before DOJ Cut-off The body has a vast number of photos in its custody from the Epstein holdings, which are "both graphic and ordinary," its statement on recently explained. The Congressional committee first legally compelled the holdings of Epstein, who was found dead in a New York prison in 2019 while pending legal proceedings on charges of sex trafficking crimes, in August. The photos and files the Epstein property provided to the committee are separate from what is commonly termed "the Epstein files". Those files are papers in the DOJ's control associated with its independent investigation into Epstein. In accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump enacted recently, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to release its records. The extent of what is found in the DOJ's files is unknown, and it's probable that a large amount of the content will be heavily redacted, akin to House Oversight Committee materials