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The Congressional oversight panel has released a collection of approximately 70 images obtained from the property of deceased convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This represents the third disclosure from a tranche of more than 95,000 photos the body has acquired from Epstein's property. It features photographs of excerpts from the book Lolita inscribed across a female's body, and censored pictures of female overseas passports.

This release comes mere 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 photographs raise further inquiries about exactly what the Department of Justice has in its holdings," stated the ranking member of the committee, Robert Garcia.

What is in the Images Made Public

A number of the photographs released on Thursday show Epstein speaking with scholar and advocate Noam Chomsky on a private jet; Bill Gates positioned alongside a female whose identity is censored; Steve Bannon seated at a desk opposite Epstein, and ex- Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a evening meal.

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These are the newest affluent, influential men to be seen in Epstein estate photographs published by the oversight panel - earlier published photos also show US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as director Woody Allen, previous US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, attorney Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and others.

Being pictured in the photographs is not evidence of any misconduct, and several of the pictured men have asserted they were in no way participating in Epstein's illegal activity.

In a press release released with the image release, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein estate did not provide context or timeframes for the photographs.

"Images were selected to furnish the American people with transparency into a representative sample of the images acquired from the estate, and to offer insights into Epstein's circle and his profoundly troubling actions," the statement reads.

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The release also features multiple images of passages from the Vladimir Nabokov literary work Lolita written in ink across several locations of a female's body, like her torso, foot, hip, and back. Lolita recounts the story of a young girl who was exploited by a middle-aged literature professor.

An example of a passage from the book scrawled across a female's torso reads, "Lolita: the tip of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the palate to alight, at three, on the teeth".

Additionally, there are a series of photographs of female identification and official papers from states globally, like Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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The majority of the data on the documents, like identities and DOBs, is redacted but the House Oversight Committee indicated in a announcement that the travel documents pertain to "women whom Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were interacting with".

An additional image features Epstein positioned at a workstation intimately surrounded by three female figures whose features have been obscured - one individual has her palm on Epstein's torso under his garment, and another is bending to look at a nearby computer. Epstein can be seen to be assisting the third put on a wristband.

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A further image released is a screenshot of SMS messages from an unknown sender who states they have been sent "some girls" and are requesting "$one thousand dollars per female".

Photo Disclosure Comes Prior to DOJ Due Date

The panel has thousands of photographs in its possession from the Epstein holdings, which are "at once graphic and ordinary," its press release on recently explained.

The Congressional committee first subpoenaed the estate of Epstein, who was found dead in a New York prison in 2019 while pending legal proceedings on charges of sex trafficking, in August.

The images and files the Epstein estate's representatives submitted to the panel are different than what is largely called "the Epstein documents". Those are records under the justice department's possession related to its independent probe into Epstein.

In accordance with the recently passed law, which President Trump enacted last month, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to publish its records. The full nature of the contents found in the DOJ's files is not publicly known, and it's likely that much of the information will be heavily censored, comparable to House Oversight Committee materials