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The Congressional oversight panel has released a batch of roughly 70 images obtained from the property of late convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This constitutes the third such publication from a larger collection of in excess of 95,000 photos the body has secured from Epstein's holdings. It contains pictures of quotes from the book Lolita written across a woman's body, and obscured pictures of female international passports.

This disclosure occurs hours before the December 19th cut-off for the Justice Department to make public every documents connected to its investigation into Epstein.

"These photos raise additional inquiries about what exactly the Department of Justice has in its possession," stated the senior Democrat of the committee, Robert Garcia.

Contents in the Photos Made Public

Several of the images made public on Thursday depict Epstein speaking with professor and activist Noam Chomsky on a personal aircraft; Bill Gates positioned beside a woman whose features is obscured; Steve Bannon sitting at a workstation opposite Epstein, and previous Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner event.

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These are the newest affluent, powerful individuals to be seen in Epstein property photographs published by the oversight panel - previously released pictures also depict US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as director Woody Allen, previous US treasury secretary Larry Summers, counsel Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and others.

Showing up in the photographs is not proof of any illegal activity, and several of the pictured men have stated they were not involved in Epstein's illegal activity.

In a press release released with the photo publication, Democratic members on the US House Oversight Committee noted the Epstein estate did not provide context or timings for the images.

"Photos were chosen to offer the American people with clarity into a typical cross-section of the images obtained from the estate, and to give insights into Epstein's circle and his exceptionally alarming activities," the release states.

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The publication also contains multiple photographs of excerpts from the Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita written in dark ink across several locations of a female's body, like her upper body, foot, pelvis, and back. Lolita narrates the account of a adolescent who was manipulated by a middle-aged literature professor.

One excerpt from the novel written across a woman's upper body states, "Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue traveling of three steps down the palate to land, at three, on the teeth".

The release also contains a number of photos of women's travel documents and ID papers from nations globally, including Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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Most of the data on the documents, including identities and dates of birth, is obscured but the panel stated in a press release that the travel documents pertain to "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators were interacting with".

A further image shows Epstein seated at a desk closely flanked by three women whose features have been redacted - a first has her hand on Epstein's torso under his garment, and another is leaning to look at a adjacent computer. Epstein can be seen to be assisting the final person fasten a wristband.

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A further photo disclosed is a screenshot of digital messages from an unnamed person who claims they have been supplied "some girls" and are demanding "$one thousand dollars per female".

Photo Publication Occurs Ahead of DOJ Deadline

The panel has many thousands of photographs in its holdings from the Epstein estate, which are "both graphic and ordinary," its announcement on recently clarified.

The House Oversight Committee first legally compelled the holdings of Epstein, who passed away 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 property gave to the committee are different than what is often called "the Epstein documents". Those are papers under the DOJ's control associated with its separate probe into Epstein.

Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Donald Trump enacted last month, the DOJ has until 19 December to publish its files. The full nature of what's contained in the DOJ's files is not publicly known, and it's likely that a significant portion of the information will be significantly censored, comparable to the committee's materials