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The House investigative committee has released a collection of approximately 70 photographs from the estate of former convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

This marks the third such publication from a larger collection of more than 95,000 photos the body has acquired from Epstein's holdings. It contains images of quotes from the book Lolita written across a woman's body, and censored pictures of women's international passports.

This disclosure arrives hours before the 19 December deadline for the DOJ to make public each documents related to its probe into Epstein.

"These new photos bring up further queries about exactly what the Department of Justice has in its custody," remarked the Democratic lead of the committee, Robert Garcia.

What is in the Images Disclosed

Some of the photos released on Thursday depict Epstein speaking with scholar and advocate Noam Chomsky aboard a private plane; Bill Gates standing alongside a individual whose identity is redacted; Steve Bannon positioned at a workstation opposite Epstein, and previous Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner event.

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These are the latest affluent, prominent figures to be photographed in Epstein property images released by the House Oversight Committee - previously published pictures also depict US President Donald Trump and ex-president Bill Clinton, as well as movie director Woody Allen, previous US treasury secretary Larry Summers, counsel Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and other figures.

Showing up in the photographs is does not constitute indication of any misconduct, and a number of the photographed individuals have asserted they were never implicated in Epstein's illegal activity.

In a statement issued alongside the photograph publication, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee stated the Epstein property holders did not offer context or dates for the images.

"Images were chosen to offer the general populace with clarity into a representative sample of the photos obtained from the property, and to provide perspectives into Epstein's circle and his profoundly disturbing behavior," the release states.

Oversight Panel

The release also features several photographs of passages from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita written in dark ink across several locations of a female's body, such as her chest, foot, hipbone, and back. Lolita narrates the account of a young girl who was exploited by a older literature professor.

A particular passage from the book scrawled across a female's upper body states, "Lolita's name: the point of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the roof of the mouth to alight, at three, on the teeth".

Additionally, there are a number of photographs of female identification and official papers from countries globally, including Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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A large portion of the data on the papers, such as names and DOBs, is censored but the panel indicated in a announcement that the travel documents belong to "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were engaging".

A further photo depicts Epstein sitting at a table intimately in the company of three female figures whose identities have been censored - one has her hand on Epstein's upper body under his clothing, and another is leaning to view a close-by device. Epstein appears to be assisting the third attach a wristband.

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A further photo disclosed is a screenshot of SMS messages from an unknown person who says they have been sent "several females" and are demanding "$1000 per girl".

Image Disclosure Occurs Prior to DOJ Cut-off

The panel has many thousands of images in its holdings from the Epstein holdings, which are "both explicit and everyday," its press release on recently noted.

The Congressional committee first subpoenaed the estate of Epstein, who was found dead in a New York jail in 2019 while pending legal proceedings on charges of sex trafficking crimes, in August.

The photographs and documents the Epstein estate gave to the panel are distinct from what is often termed "the Epstein documents". That material are papers within the DOJ's custody connected to its own investigation into Epstein.

Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which the President made law recently, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to release its documents. The extent of what's included in the DOJ's files is unknown, and it's likely that much of the content will be significantly obscured, comparable to House Oversight Committee materials