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The House investigative committee has made public a set of approximately 70 images obtained from the property of late adjudicated sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This constitutes the third release from a cache of in excess of 95,000 images the body has obtained from Epstein's property. It includes images of passages from the book Lolita inscribed across a woman's body, and obscured photos of female foreign passports.

This disclosure comes hours before the 19th of December due date for the Department of Justice to make public each records connected to its investigation into Epstein.

"These latest images pose more questions about what exactly the Department of Justice has in its holdings," stated the ranking member of the committee, Robert Garcia.

Contents in the Photographs Made Public

Several of the photos published on this week show Epstein speaking with academic and activist Noam Chomsky aboard a private plane; Bill Gates standing beside a individual whose identity is censored; Steve Bannon positioned at a table opposite Epstein, and previous Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a evening meal.

Committee

These are the newest affluent, influential men to be pictured in Epstein property photos published by the oversight panel - earlier released pictures also include US President Donald Trump and ex-president Bill Clinton, as well as film director Woody Allen, previous US treasury secretary Larry Summers, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and others.

Being pictured in the images is does not constitute evidence of any wrongdoing, and a number of the pictured figures have said they were never implicated in Epstein's criminal activity.

In a press release released with the photo release, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee stated the Epstein estate's representatives did not provide explanatory details or dates for the images.

"Photos were chosen to furnish the public with openness into a typical cross-section of the photos received from the property, and to give understanding into Epstein's network and his exceptionally troubling behavior," the announcement reads.

Oversight Panel

The disclosure also includes a number of photographs of passages from the Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita penned in black ink across various areas of a female's body, such as her upper body, feet, hipbone, and back. Lolita tells the tale of a minor who was groomed by a adult literature professor.

A particular quote from the book scrawled across a female's chest reads, "Lo-lee-ta: the point of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the mouth to land, at three, on the teeth".

There are also a number of images of women's identification and official papers from countries worldwide, including Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

Oversight Panel

Most of the information on the IDs, like identities and dates of birth, is censored but the committee stated in a press release that the travel documents are associated with "individuals whom Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators were engaging".

An additional image features Epstein positioned at a table intimately in the company of three women whose identities have been censored - one individual has her palm on Epstein's upper body under his clothing, and another individual is leaning to look at a close-by computer. Epstein can be seen to be helping the third individual put on a bracelet.

Investigative Body

An additional photo disclosed is a screenshot of SMS messages from an unidentified individual who says they have been sent "a number of girls" and are requesting "$one thousand dollars for each individual".

Image Release Arrives Prior to DOJ Cut-off

The body has a vast number of photographs in its custody from the Epstein holdings, which are "at once graphic and mundane," its statement on this week clarified.

The House Oversight Committee first legally compelled the holdings of Epstein, who passed away in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while facing trial on allegations of human trafficking, in August.

The photos and files the Epstein property gave to the panel are separate from what is often termed "the Epstein files". That material are documents under the DOJ's possession associated with its separate probe into Epstein.

Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Donald Trump made law in November, the DOJ has until 19 December to release its documents. The extent of the contents found in the DOJ's records is unknown, and it's probable that a large amount of the information will be extensively censored, comparable to the committee's materials