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The House Oversight Committee has published a set of approximately 70 images secured from the holdings of former adjudicated sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This represents the third publication from a tranche of more than 95,000 images the panel has acquired from Epstein's holdings. It includes images of quotes from the novel Lolita scrawled across a woman's body, and obscured photos of women's international passports.

This disclosure occurs mere hours before the December 19th cut-off for the DOJ to make public every files related to its investigation into Epstein.

"These images pose more queries about what exactly the DOJ has in its holdings," stated the senior Democrat of the committee, Robert Garcia.

Contents in the Photos Made Public

A number of the photos released on recently show Epstein speaking with professor and activist Noam Chomsky aboard a personal aircraft; Bill Gates positioned beside a woman whose face is redacted; Steve Bannon seated at a desk opposite Epstein, and ex- Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a evening meal.

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These are the newest high-net-worth, influential men to be seen in Epstein's estate images disclosed by the House Oversight Committee - earlier disclosed photos also depict US President Donald Trump and past president Bill Clinton, as well as film director Woody Allen, previous US treasury secretary Larry Summers, attorney Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and additional individuals.

Being pictured in the photos is not indication of any illegal activity, and many of the pictured individuals have stated they were not participating in Epstein's unlawful actions.

In a announcement issued alongside the image release, Democratic members on the US House Oversight Committee stated the Epstein estate did not offer explanatory details or timings for the pictures.

"Photographs were chosen to offer the American people with openness into a representative sample of the photos received from the property, and to offer understanding into Epstein's network and his exceptionally troubling activities," the announcement states.

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The disclosure also contains several images of quotes from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita penned in ink across various areas of a woman's body, like her upper body, lower extremity, hipbone, and rear. Lolita tells the story of a adolescent who was exploited by a adult literature professor.

A particular excerpt from the novel inscribed across a woman's torso reads, "Lo-lee-ta: the end of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth".

Additionally, there are a collection of images of women's identification and identification documents from nations globally, like Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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A large portion of the data on the documents, such as identities and dates of birth, is censored but the panel stated in a statement that the passports are associated with "individuals whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators were interacting with".

Another photograph shows Epstein seated at a workstation in close proximity flanked by three women whose faces have been redacted - one individual has her palm on Epstein's chest under his shirt, and another individual is crouching to look at a close-by computer. Epstein appears to be assisting the third individual put on a wristband.

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Another photograph disclosed is a screenshot of SMS messages from an unnamed person who says they have been sent "some girls" and are asking for "$$1,000 per female".

Image Release Comes Prior to DOJ Due Date

The body has thousands of photographs in its custody from the Epstein estate, which are "both disturbing and everyday," its press release on this week explained.

The Congressional committee first legally compelled the estate of Epstein, who passed away in a New York prison in 2019 while facing trial on charges of sex trafficking, in August.

The photographs and documents the Epstein estate gave to the panel are separate from what is commonly termed "Epstein-related records". Those are records under the DOJ's possession connected to its own inquiry into Epstein.

Under the Transparency Act, which Donald Trump made law in November, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to publish its records. The extent of what is found in the DOJ's records is unknown, and it's expected that a large amount of the content will be significantly censored, akin to Congressional releases