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The House investigative committee has made public a collection of around 70 photographs obtained from the property of late found guilty sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This represents the latest in a series of release from a larger collection of in excess of 95,000 photos the panel has acquired from Epstein's property. It features photographs of passages from the book Lolita scrawled across a woman's body, and redacted photos of female foreign passports.

This release occurs mere hours before the December 19th due date for the DOJ to release every documents connected to its investigation into Epstein.

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

Contents in the Photos Made Public

Several of the images published on Thursday feature Epstein speaking with professor and activist Noam Chomsky on a personal aircraft; Bill Gates positioned beside a individual whose face is obscured; Steve Bannon sitting at a desk across from Epstein, and former Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a evening meal.

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These are the most recent wealthy, powerful men to be seen in Epstein property photos disclosed by the oversight panel - previously disclosed pictures also include US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as director Woody Allen, former US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, counsel Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and other figures.

Showing up in the photographs is is not considered evidence of any illegal activity, and many of the featured men have stated they were never implicated in Epstein's unlawful actions.

In a statement accompanying the photograph publication, Democratic members on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein estate's representatives did not offer explanatory details or dates for the images.

"Photographs were selected to provide the general populace with clarity into a illustrative selection of the photos received from the estate, and to provide insights into Epstein's associates and his extremely disturbing behavior," the statement says.

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The disclosure also features multiple images of quotes from the Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita penned in black ink across different parts of a female's body, such as her torso, foot, hipbone, and spine. Lolita recounts the story of a adolescent who was groomed by a adult literature professor.

An example of a passage from the book scrawled across a woman's upper body reads, "Lo-lee-ta: the end of the tongue traveling of three steps down the palate to alight, at three, on the teeth".

Additionally, there are a collection of photos of women's passports and identification documents from states worldwide, like Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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A large portion of the information on the papers, such as names and birth dates, is censored but the panel indicated in a press release that the passports pertain to "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were interacting with".

Another image depicts Epstein seated at a workstation in close proximity surrounded by three women whose identities have been redacted - one individual has her hand on Epstein's torso under his clothing, and another is bending to look at a adjacent device. Epstein appears to be aiding the final person attach a wristband.

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A further photograph made public is a screenshot of text messages from an unnamed person who claims they have been supplied "a number of girls" and are demanding "$one thousand dollars per female".

Image Disclosure Occurs Ahead of DOJ Cut-off

The panel has many thousands of images in its holdings from the Epstein property, which are "at once explicit and ordinary," its press release on this week noted.

The House Oversight Committee first issued a subpoena to the estate of Epstein, who died in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while facing trial on allegations of sex trafficking, in August.

The images and files the Epstein estate's representatives gave to the panel are distinct from what is often called "Epstein-related records". Those files are papers within the Department of Justice's control associated with its independent inquiry into Epstein.

Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump signed into law recently, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to release its files. The extent of what's contained in the DOJ's documents is not publicly known, and it's expected that much of the material will be heavily obscured, akin to Congressional documents