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The House Oversight Committee has published a set of around 70 photographs obtained from the property of late adjudicated sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This marks the third disclosure from a cache of over 95,000 photographs the panel has obtained from Epstein's estate. It includes photographs of quotes from the novel Lolita written across a woman's body, and obscured pictures of women's foreign passports.

This disclosure occurs just hours before the 19 December cut-off for the DOJ to make public all documents connected to its investigation into Epstein.

"These latest photos raise more inquiries about precisely what the Department of Justice has in its possession," stated the Democratic lead of the committee, Robert Garcia.

What is in the Photographs Made Public

Several of the photographs published on Thursday feature Epstein in discussion with academic and activist Noam Chomsky inside a private plane; Bill Gates standing alongside a individual whose identity is obscured; Steve Bannon seated at a table facing Epstein, and previous Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner event.

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These are the latest high-net-worth, prominent men to be seen in Epstein's estate photographs released by the House Oversight Committee - earlier disclosed photos also depict US President Donald Trump and past president Bill Clinton, as well as movie director Woody Allen, ex- US treasury secretary Larry Summers, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and additional individuals.

Showing up in the photographs is is not considered evidence of any wrongdoing, and a number of the photographed men have said they were not participating in Epstein's unlawful actions.

In a statement issued alongside the photograph disclosure, Lawmakers on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein estate did not offer explanatory details or dates for the photographs.

"Photos were selected to furnish the American people with clarity into a typical cross-section of the photos obtained from the property, and to provide understanding into Epstein's circle and his profoundly disturbing behavior," the release states.

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The disclosure also includes several photos of excerpts from the Vladimir Nabokov literary work Lolita written in ink across several locations of a woman's body, such as her chest, foot, hipbone, and spine. Lolita narrates the story of a young girl who was manipulated by a older literature professor.

One quote from the book inscribed across a woman's torso reads, "Lolita's name: the tip 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 travel documents and identification documents from nations globally, including Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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A large portion of the details on the IDs, including identities and birth dates, is censored but the panel said in a announcement that the passports are associated with "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators were interacting with".

A further photo shows Epstein positioned at a table in close proximity in the company of three women whose features have been censored - one has her palm on Epstein's torso under his clothing, and another is crouching to examine a adjacent device. Epstein can be seen to be helping the third fasten a piece of jewelry.

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Another image made public is a capture of text messages from an unknown individual who claims they have been sent "several females" and are asking for "$$1,000 for each individual".

Photo Release Arrives Ahead of DOJ Due Date

The body has many thousands of photographs in its custody from the Epstein estate, which are "both graphic and mundane," its press release on recently clarified.

The oversight panel first issued a subpoena to the holdings of Epstein, who passed away in a New York prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking crimes, in August.

The images and documents the Epstein estate's representatives provided to the body are separate from what is often referred to "the Epstein documents". Those files are records within the justice department's control associated with its independent inquiry into Epstein.

Under the Transparency Act, which the President signed into law last month, the DOJ has until 19 December to publish its records. The extent of what's included in the DOJ's files is not publicly known, and it's likely that much of the content will be extensively obscured, similar to House Oversight Committee releases