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The House investigative committee has published a batch of approximately 70 images obtained from the property of deceased adjudicated sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
This constitutes the third such publication from a tranche of in excess of 95,000 photos the committee has obtained from Epstein's estate. It contains photographs of quotes from the novel Lolita inscribed across a female's body, and redacted pictures of women's foreign passports.
This disclosure arrives hours before the 19th of December cut-off for the Department of Justice to make public every records associated with its inquiry into Epstein.
"These new photos raise additional inquiries about exactly what the Justice Department has in its custody," said the senior Democrat of the committee, Robert Garcia.
A number of the photos released on Thursday show Epstein speaking with academic and activist Noam Chomsky inside a personal aircraft; Bill Gates seen beside a woman whose identity is censored; Steve Bannon sitting at a workstation across from Epstein, and former Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner gathering.
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These are the most recent affluent, influential individuals to be pictured in Epstein's estate photos released by the House Oversight Committee - earlier published pictures also include US President Donald Trump and past president Bill Clinton, as well as movie director Woody Allen, former US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, attorney Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and additional individuals.
Showing up in the photos is does not constitute indication of any wrongdoing, and a number of the featured figures have asserted they were in no way implicated in Epstein's illegal activity.
In a announcement accompanying the photograph publication, Democratic members on the US House Oversight Committee noted the Epstein property holders did not offer background information or timeframes for the photographs.
"Photographs were picked to furnish the American people with transparency into a illustrative selection of the photographs acquired from the estate, and to provide insights into Epstein's associates and his exceptionally disturbing behavior," the statement reads.
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The release also contains several photographs of excerpts from the Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita penned in ink across different parts of a woman's body, such as her torso, foot, pelvis, and back. Lolita recounts the tale of a adolescent who was manipulated by a older literature professor.
One quote from the work written across a female's upper body says, "Lo-lee-ta: the end of the tongue traveling of three steps down the mouth to alight, at three, on the teeth".
Additionally, there are a series of images of women's passports and identification documents from nations globally, like Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.
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A large portion of the details on the papers, including identities and DOBs, is obscured but the committee said in a announcement that the travel documents are associated with "women whom Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were interacting with".
Another image shows Epstein sitting at a workstation closely in the company of three individuals whose identities have been censored - one individual has her hand on Epstein's upper body under his clothing, and another is crouching to view a close-by laptop. Epstein can be seen to be assisting the third attach a piece of jewelry.
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A further photograph released is a screenshot of digital messages from an unidentified sender who claims they have been provided "a number of girls" and are asking for "$one thousand dollars per female".
The committee has thousands of images in its custody from the Epstein estate, which are "both explicit and ordinary," its press release on this week noted.
The Congressional committee first legally compelled the estate of Epstein, who died in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while awaiting trial on accusations of human trafficking, in August.
The images and records the Epstein estate submitted to the committee are separate from what is commonly termed "the Epstein documents". Those are papers within the Department of Justice's control related to its independent inquiry into Epstein.
Pursuant to the recently passed law, which the President made law in November, the DOJ has until the date of 19 December to release its documents. The scope of the contents found in the DOJ's records is not publicly known, and it's likely that much of the information will be extensively obscured, akin to House Oversight Committee documents
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