🔗 Share this article Lawmakers Release Newest Set of Epstein Photographs as DOJ Deadline Looms Investigative Body The Congressional oversight panel has made public a set of approximately 70 images from the estate of deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. This represents the third release from a larger collection of more than 95,000 photographs the body has secured from Epstein's property. It includes images of quotes from the book Lolita written across a woman's body, and redacted images of women's international passports. This disclosure occurs just hours before the 19 December deadline for the Justice Department to make public every records connected to its inquiry into Epstein. "These new photos bring up more inquiries about what exactly the DOJ has in its holdings," said the Democratic lead of the panel, Robert Garcia. Contents in the Photos Released Some of the images made public on this week depict Epstein speaking with scholar and advocate Noam Chomsky aboard a personal aircraft; Bill Gates positioned beside a woman whose face is obscured; Steve Bannon seated at a table facing Epstein, and previous Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner gathering. Committee These are the latest high-net-worth, prominent men to be photographed in Epstein's estate images disclosed by the oversight panel - earlier published photos also include US President Donald Trump and ex-president Bill Clinton, as well as movie director Woody Allen, former US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, counsel Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and other figures. Being pictured in the photos is not evidence of any wrongdoing, and several of the photographed men have asserted they were not participating in Epstein's illegal activity. In a announcement released with the image publication, Lawmakers on the US House Oversight Committee stated the Epstein estate's representatives did not provide explanatory details or dates for the images. "Images were picked to offer the American people with transparency into a typical cross-section of the photos obtained from the estate, and to give perspectives into Epstein's circle and his extremely disturbing behavior," the release states. Investigative Body The disclosure also contains several photos of passages from the Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita inscribed in dark ink across different parts of a female's body, such as her chest, foot, hipbone, and rear. Lolita narrates the tale of a adolescent who was exploited by a middle-aged literature professor. An example of a excerpt from the book written across a woman's torso says, "Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue traveling of three steps down the mouth to tap, at three, on the teeth". There are also a collection of images of women's passports and identification documents from countries around the world, such as Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine. Committee Most of the information on the IDs, like names and dates of birth, is redacted but the House Oversight Committee stated in a press release that the travel documents belong to "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were engaging". A further photo features Epstein positioned at a workstation intimately surrounded by three female figures whose features have been censored - one has her palm on Epstein's chest under his clothing, and another is leaning to examine a close-by laptop. Epstein seems to be assisting the third individual put on a bracelet. Investigative Body A further photograph disclosed is a capture of SMS messages from an unknown person who states they have been supplied "several females" and are demanding "$1000 for each individual". Image Release Comes Before DOJ Due Date The committee has thousands of images in its holdings from the Epstein property, which are "at once disturbing and mundane," its press release on Thursday clarified. The Congressional committee first legally compelled the holdings of Epstein, who died in a New York jail in 2019 while facing trial on allegations of human trafficking, in August. The images and records the Epstein estate's representatives submitted to the panel are separate from what is often called "the Epstein files". That material are documents under the DOJ's control related to its own probe into Epstein. Pursuant to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump enacted recently, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to disclose its files. The full nature of what is included in the DOJ's files is unknown, and it's expected that a significant portion of the material will be significantly obscured, akin to House Oversight Committee releases