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The Congressional oversight panel has made public a batch of roughly 70 photographs obtained from the property of late found guilty individual convicted of sex crimes Jeffrey Epstein.

This represents the third such release from a larger collection of more than 95,000 photographs the committee has obtained from Epstein's holdings. It features photographs of quotes from the literary work Lolita written across a woman's body, and redacted pictures of women's foreign passports.

This disclosure occurs mere hours before the December 19th due date for the Department of Justice to release each files related to its probe into Epstein.

"These new images pose further inquiries about exactly what the Department of Justice has in its custody," stated the senior Democrat of the panel, Robert Garcia.

What's in the Photos Made Public

Several of the photographs made public on Thursday depict Epstein speaking with professor and activist Noam Chomsky inside a personal aircraft; Bill Gates seen alongside a woman whose face is censored; Steve Bannon positioned at a table facing Epstein, and former Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner event.

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These are the most recent affluent, prominent individuals to be seen in Epstein's estate photographs released by the House Oversight Committee - previously disclosed pictures also show US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as movie director Woody Allen, previous US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, attorney Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and additional individuals.

Showing up in the photographs is not proof of any misconduct, and several of the pictured individuals have asserted they were not implicated in Epstein's unlawful actions.

In a press release issued alongside the photo disclosure, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee noted the Epstein property holders did not supply explanatory details or timings for the images.

"Photographs were picked to offer the public with openness into a representative sample of the photos acquired from the estate, and to give insights into Epstein's associates and his profoundly disturbing actions," the release states.

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The release also features a number of photographs of excerpts from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita penned in dark ink across various areas of a woman's body, such as her upper body, lower extremity, hip, and back. Lolita tells the tale of a young girl who was manipulated by a adult literature professor.

An example of a excerpt from the novel scrawled across a woman's upper body says, "Lolita: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the roof of the mouth to land, at three, on the teeth".

There are also a number of photographs of female identification and identification documents from countries globally, like Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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A large portion of the information on the documents, like names and DOBs, is obscured but the panel indicated in a press release that the travel documents pertain to "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators were involved with".

A further photograph shows Epstein positioned at a desk in close proximity in the company of three women whose features have been obscured - a first has her hand on Epstein's torso under his clothing, and a second is crouching to look at a close-by device. Epstein appears to be aiding the third put on a wristband.

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Another image disclosed is a capture of SMS messages from an unnamed individual who states they have been sent "some girls" and are requesting "$one thousand dollars per girl".

Image Publication Occurs Prior to DOJ Due Date

The committee has thousands of images in its holdings from the Epstein estate, which are "simultaneously graphic and ordinary," its announcement on Thursday noted.

The Congressional committee first legally compelled the property of Epstein, who died in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while facing trial on allegations of sex trafficking crimes, in August.

The images and files the Epstein estate's representatives submitted to the panel are different than what is largely called "Epstein-related records". Those are documents within the Department of Justice's possession connected to its own inquiry into Epstein.

In accordance with the recently passed law, which Donald Trump made law in November, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to disclose its documents. The full nature of the contents found in the DOJ's documents is not publicly known, and it's probable that much of the information will be heavily obscured, comparable to Congressional releases