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The House investigative committee has published a collection of around 70 photos obtained from the property of late found guilty sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

This represents the third such release from a larger collection of over 95,000 images the body has obtained from Epstein's estate. It includes pictures of excerpts from the novel Lolita inscribed across a female's body, and censored pictures of women's international passports.

This disclosure occurs just hours before the December 19th cut-off for the DOJ to make public each files related to its probe into Epstein.

"These new images pose further inquiries about precisely what the Department of Justice has in its possession," said the ranking member of the committee, Robert Garcia.

What's in the Photographs Disclosed

Some of the photographs published on Thursday depict Epstein in discussion with academic and activist Noam Chomsky inside a personal aircraft; Bill Gates positioned alongside a individual whose features is redacted; Steve Bannon positioned at a table opposite Epstein, and ex- Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner gathering.

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These are the latest high-net-worth, influential figures to be pictured in Epstein estate images published by the committee - formerly published pictures also include US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as director Woody Allen, former US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, attorney Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and others.

Being pictured in the photographs is not proof of any illegal activity, and a number of the photographed individuals have said they were in no way participating in Epstein's criminal activity.

In a statement issued alongside the photo release, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein property holders did not offer context or dates for the photographs.

"Photos were chosen to offer the general populace with clarity into a typical cross-section of the photographs obtained from the holdings, and to offer perspectives into Epstein's circle and his profoundly troubling behavior," the announcement states.

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The publication also features several images of passages from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita penned in dark ink across different parts of a female's body, like her chest, lower extremity, hipbone, and back. Lolita recounts the account of a young girl who was manipulated by a older literature professor.

An example of a excerpt from the novel scrawled across a woman's chest reads, "Lolita's name: the end of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the mouth to alight, at three, on the teeth".

Additionally, there are a collection of photos of female passports and official papers from countries globally, including Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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Most of the details on the IDs, such as names and birth dates, is censored but the committee said in a press release that the passports pertain to "individuals whom Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were engaging".

Another photo shows Epstein seated at a workstation intimately flanked by three women whose faces have been obscured - one individual has her hand on Epstein's chest under his garment, and another is bending to look at a adjacent laptop. Epstein seems to be assisting the third individual attach a piece of jewelry.

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A further photo released is a capture of digital messages from an unnamed individual who says they have been supplied "a number of girls" and are demanding "$$1,000 per female".

Photo Release Arrives Before DOJ Deadline

The body has many thousands of images in its custody from the Epstein holdings, which are "at once explicit and everyday," its announcement on this week clarified.

The Congressional committee first subpoenaed the property of Epstein, who was found dead in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while awaiting trial on accusations of sex trafficking crimes, in August.

The photos and documents the Epstein property provided to the body are different than what is commonly called "Epstein-related records". That material are papers in the Department of Justice's control connected to its own investigation into Epstein.

In accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump made law recently, the DOJ has until 19 December to publish its records. The extent of the contents found in the DOJ's documents is unclear, and it's probable that much of the content will be significantly obscured, similar to the committee's documents