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The House investigative committee has published a collection of around 70 photographs obtained from the property of former found guilty sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This marks the latest in a series of disclosure from a tranche of over 95,000 photos the committee has obtained from Epstein's property. It includes pictures of excerpts from the literary work Lolita written across a female's body, and censored pictures of women's overseas passports.

This release arrives mere hours before the 19th of December cut-off for the Justice Department to release each records associated with its probe into Epstein.

"These new photographs bring up additional questions about what exactly the DOJ has in its possession," stated the Democratic lead of the committee, Robert Garcia.

Contents in the Photographs Made Public

Some of the images made public on recently feature Epstein speaking with scholar and advocate Noam Chomsky inside a private jet; Bill Gates positioned beside a individual whose face is censored; Steve Bannon seated at a table opposite Epstein, and former Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner gathering.

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These are the latest high-net-worth, powerful men to be seen in Epstein property images released by the committee - earlier disclosed images also depict US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as film director Woody Allen, previous US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, counsel Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and others.

Being pictured in the photos is is not considered evidence of any misconduct, and several of the pictured individuals have asserted they were never implicated in Epstein's illegal activity.

In a statement accompanying the photo publication, Lawmakers on the US House Oversight Committee noted the Epstein estate did not provide context or dates for the photographs.

"Photographs were selected to provide the American people with clarity into a representative sample of the photos received from the estate, and to give understanding into Epstein's circle and his profoundly troubling activities," the release states.

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The disclosure also features multiple photographs of quotes from the Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita inscribed in ink across several locations of a woman's body, like her torso, feet, hipbone, and rear. Lolita tells the tale of a minor who was groomed by a adult literature professor.

A particular passage from the work written across a woman's upper body states, "Lolita's name: the end of the tongue traveling of three steps down the roof of the mouth to alight, at three, on the teeth".

Additionally, there are a series of photos of women's identification and ID papers from countries globally, like Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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Most of the data on the documents, including identities and birth dates, is censored but the panel indicated in a press release that the passports pertain to "women whom Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were engaging".

Another photograph shows Epstein seated at a desk closely surrounded by three female figures whose faces have been censored - a first has her hand on Epstein's torso under his shirt, and another is bending to examine a close-by device. Epstein appears to be assisting the third individual fasten a wristband.

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A further photo made public is a image of SMS messages from an unidentified person who states they have been supplied "a number of girls" and are asking for "$1000 per female".

Image Disclosure Occurs Prior to DOJ Deadline

The committee has many thousands of images in its custody from the Epstein property, which are "simultaneously explicit and ordinary," its statement on this week clarified.

The Congressional committee first legally compelled the estate of Epstein, who passed away in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking crimes, in August.

The images and documents the Epstein estate gave to the panel are different than what is often referred to "the Epstein files". Those files are papers within the DOJ's control connected to its own probe into Epstein.

Pursuant to the recently passed law, which President Trump enacted recently, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to release its records. The scope of what is found in the DOJ's files is unknown, and it's expected that much of the material will be extensively censored, comparable to Congressional materials