🔗 Share this article Congressional Democrats Release Most Recent Batch of Epstein Photographs as DOJ Cut-off Date Nears Committee The House Oversight Committee has made public a batch of around 70 photos secured from the holdings of deceased adjudicated sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. This marks the third such disclosure from a cache of more than 95,000 photos the body has obtained from Epstein's holdings. It contains photographs of passages from the literary work Lolita written across a female's body, and redacted pictures of female international passports. This release occurs hours before the December 19th cut-off for the Department of Justice to disclose every files related to its investigation into Epstein. "These new photographs bring up more queries about exactly what the Justice Department has in its custody," remarked the Democratic lead of the committee, Robert Garcia. What's in the Photos Disclosed A number of the photos released on Thursday show Epstein conversing with scholar and advocate Noam Chomsky inside a private jet; Bill Gates seen alongside a female whose face is redacted; Steve Bannon seated at a desk opposite Epstein, and ex- Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner event. Committee These are the most recent wealthy, powerful individuals to be photographed in Epstein's estate photographs disclosed by the committee - earlier published images also depict US President Donald Trump and ex-president Bill Clinton, as well as director Woody Allen, ex- US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and other figures. Showing up in the photographs is not evidence of any misconduct, and several of the photographed individuals have stated they were not implicated in Epstein's unlawful actions. In a announcement issued alongside the photograph disclosure, Lawmakers on the US House Oversight Committee noted the Epstein property holders did not provide explanatory details or timings for the images. "Photographs were chosen to furnish the public with transparency into a representative sample of the images obtained from the estate, and to give understanding into Epstein's circle and his extremely disturbing activities," the release says. Investigative Body The disclosure also features multiple images of excerpts from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita inscribed in dark ink across several locations of a female's body, including her torso, lower extremity, pelvis, and spine. Lolita narrates the account of a adolescent who was groomed by a adult literature professor. An example of a quote from the novel inscribed across a female's torso reads, "Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the roof of the mouth to alight, at three, on the teeth". There are also a number of photographs of women's travel documents and official papers from countries worldwide, including Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine. Committee Most of the data on the IDs, like identities and birth dates, is redacted but the House Oversight Committee indicated in a statement that the travel documents pertain to "women whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators were involved with". A further photo depicts Epstein seated at a workstation intimately in the company of three women whose identities have been obscured - one has her palm on Epstein's torso under his shirt, and another is crouching to view a close-by laptop. Epstein seems to be aiding the final person attach a wristband. Oversight Panel Another image made public is a image of text messages from an unidentified sender who says they have been supplied "some girls" and are demanding "$$1,000 per girl". Photo Disclosure Comes Before DOJ Cut-off The panel has many thousands of photos in its holdings from the Epstein holdings, which are "simultaneously disturbing and mundane," its press release on Thursday explained. The oversight panel first subpoenaed the holdings of Epstein, who died in a New York prison in 2019 while facing trial on accusations of sex trafficking, in August. The photos and documents the Epstein estate's representatives submitted to the committee are distinct from what is commonly referred to "the Epstein files". That material are papers under the DOJ's control related to its separate probe into Epstein. Under the Transparency Act, which the President enacted in November, the DOJ has until the date of 19 December to disclose its records. The extent of what's included in the DOJ's records is unclear, and it's probable that much of the content will be extensively obscured, similar to the committee's releases