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The House Oversight Committee has made public a collection of roughly 70 photographs from the estate of late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

This represents the third release from a cache of in excess of 95,000 images the body has secured from Epstein's estate. It includes pictures of excerpts from the literary work Lolita scrawled across a female's body, and redacted images of female overseas passports.

This release arrives mere hours before the 19th of December due date for the Department of Justice to release each documents related to its inquiry into Epstein.

"These photos bring up more questions about precisely what the Justice Department has in its possession," said the Democratic lead of the panel, Robert Garcia.

What's in the Photographs Disclosed

Some of the photographs published on this week depict Epstein speaking with academic and activist Noam Chomsky aboard a private jet; Bill Gates standing beside a woman whose face 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 newest affluent, prominent individuals to be seen in Epstein's estate photos disclosed by the committee - earlier released pictures also include US President Donald Trump and past president Bill Clinton, as well as movie director Woody Allen, previous US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, counsel Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and others.

Appearing in the images is does not constitute proof of any wrongdoing, and a number of the pictured individuals have said they were not participating in Epstein's illegal activity.

In a announcement issued alongside the photograph release, Democratic members on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein estate did not supply background information or timings for the photographs.

"Photographs were chosen to furnish the public with transparency into a representative sample of the photographs received from the property, and to provide understanding into Epstein's network and his extremely disturbing activities," the statement says.

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The publication also includes several photographs of quotes from the Vladimir Nabokov literary work Lolita penned in ink across different parts of a female's body, such as her chest, foot, pelvis, and rear. Lolita recounts the tale of a minor who was exploited by a older literature professor.

A particular quote from the novel inscribed across a woman's chest states, "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".

There are also a series of photographs of female passports and official papers from nations globally, like Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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The majority of the data on the IDs, like names and DOBs, is redacted but the panel indicated in a announcement that the passports pertain to "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators were involved with".

Another image features Epstein sitting at a desk intimately in the company of three women whose faces have been redacted - one individual has her hand on Epstein's chest under his shirt, and another is leaning to examine a close-by device. Epstein can be seen to be assisting the third fasten a wristband.

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A further photo made public is a capture of SMS messages from an unidentified sender who claims they have been provided "a number of girls" and are requesting "$1000 per girl".

Photograph Publication Comes Ahead of DOJ Due Date

The panel has a vast number of photographs in its possession from the Epstein estate, which are "both graphic and everyday," its press release on Thursday noted.

The Congressional committee first legally compelled the property of Epstein, who died in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while pending legal proceedings on allegations of human trafficking, in August.

The images and files the Epstein estate submitted to the panel are separate from what is commonly called "Epstein-related records". Those files are records in the DOJ's possession associated with its own investigation into Epstein.

Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which the President signed into law last month, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to publish its files. The extent of what is found in the DOJ's files is not publicly known, and it's likely that a large amount of the content will be significantly censored, similar to Congressional materials