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The House Oversight Committee has released a set of approximately 70 photographs obtained from the property of deceased found guilty sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This constitutes the third such release from a cache of in excess of 95,000 images the committee has obtained from Epstein's property. It features images of passages from the literary work Lolita written across a female's body, and obscured photos of women's foreign passports.

This action comes mere hours before the December 19th due date for the Justice Department to disclose all records associated with its probe into Epstein.

"These latest photographs raise more queries about exactly what the DOJ has in its holdings," said the Democratic lead of the committee, Robert Garcia.

Contents in the Photographs Made Public

A number of the photos released on this week depict Epstein speaking with professor and activist Noam Chomsky aboard a private jet; Bill Gates positioned alongside a woman whose features is censored; Steve Bannon sitting at a workstation facing Epstein, and ex- Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner event.

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These are the latest high-net-worth, influential individuals to be pictured in Epstein property photographs disclosed by the House Oversight Committee - formerly released photos also depict US President Donald Trump and past president Bill Clinton, as well as movie director Woody Allen, former US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and others.

Showing up in the photographs is does not constitute proof of any wrongdoing, and several of the pictured individuals have said they were in no way participating in Epstein's illegal activity.

In a statement issued alongside the photo disclosure, Lawmakers on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein estate's representatives did not offer context or timeframes for the pictures.

"Images were chosen to provide the public with transparency into a representative sample of the photos obtained from the holdings, and to offer insights into Epstein's associates and his extremely disturbing behavior," the statement states.

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The release also includes several photographs of quotes from the Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita penned in dark ink across various areas of a female's body, including her chest, lower extremity, pelvis, and back. Lolita recounts the account of a adolescent who was groomed by a adult literature professor.

One passage from the novel inscribed across a female's upper body reads, "Lolita's name: the point of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the roof of the mouth to land, at three, on the teeth".

The release also contains a number of photographs of women's passports and official papers from states globally, including Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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A large portion of the information on the documents, including identities and birth dates, is obscured but the panel said in a announcement that the passports are associated with "women whom Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were involved with".

Another image shows Epstein positioned at a table closely flanked by three female figures whose identities have been redacted - one individual has her hand on Epstein's torso under his clothing, and another individual is crouching to look at a adjacent computer. Epstein seems to be helping the final person put on a wristband.

Investigative Body

A further image disclosed is a screenshot of SMS messages from an unidentified individual who says they have been supplied "several females" and are asking for "$$1,000 for each individual".

Photo Release Arrives Prior to DOJ Deadline

The body has thousands of photos in its custody from the Epstein holdings, which are "both disturbing and everyday," its statement on this week explained.

The oversight panel first subpoenaed the holdings of Epstein, who was found dead in a New York jail in 2019 while pending legal proceedings on allegations of sex trafficking crimes, in August.

The photographs and documents the Epstein property gave to the body are different than what is commonly called "the Epstein files". Those files are papers within the justice department's possession connected to its separate inquiry into Epstein.

Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump enacted in November, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to disclose its documents. The scope of the contents included in the DOJ's records is unclear, and it's probable that a large amount of the material will be significantly censored, comparable to the committee's materials