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The House Oversight Committee has made public a collection of around 70 photographs secured from the holdings of late adjudicated sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

This marks the third such publication from a cache of in excess of 95,000 photographs the body has secured from Epstein's property. It includes images of quotes from the novel Lolita written across a female's body, and obscured photos of women's foreign passports.

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

"These new photographs raise more questions about exactly what the DOJ has in its custody," stated the Democratic lead of the panel, Robert Garcia.

Contents in the Images Released

Several of the photographs made public on Thursday show Epstein in discussion with professor and activist Noam Chomsky on a private plane; Bill Gates seen next to a individual whose features is redacted; Steve Bannon sitting at a table opposite Epstein, and ex- Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner event.

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These are the newest affluent, powerful individuals to be photographed in Epstein property images published by the House Oversight Committee - earlier released photos also show US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as movie director Woody Allen, ex- US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and additional individuals.

Being pictured in the images is not proof of any misconduct, and a number of the pictured figures have stated they were not involved in Epstein's illegal activity.

In a statement issued alongside the image publication, Democratic members on the US House Oversight Committee stated the Epstein estate's representatives did not provide explanatory details or timeframes for the images.

"Photos were selected to offer the public with transparency into a typical cross-section of the photos obtained from the holdings, and to give insights into Epstein's network and his exceptionally alarming activities," the announcement states.

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The release also features multiple images of passages from the Vladimir Nabokov literary work Lolita inscribed in dark ink across various areas of a woman's body, such as her chest, lower extremity, hipbone, and spine. Lolita recounts the account of a young girl who was exploited by a adult literature professor.

A particular passage from the book scrawled across a female's chest reads, "Lolita: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the roof of the mouth to tap, at three, on the teeth".

The release also contains a collection of photos of female identification and identification documents from states worldwide, like Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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The majority of the information on the IDs, including names and birth dates, is censored but the panel stated in a press release that the travel documents pertain to "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators were involved with".

A further image shows Epstein sitting at a table closely flanked by three individuals whose identities have been censored - one individual has her palm on Epstein's upper body under his clothing, and another is crouching to view a close-by device. Epstein seems to be assisting the final person fasten a bracelet.

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An additional photo released is a screenshot of SMS messages from an unidentified sender who claims they have been provided "a number of girls" and are asking for "$one thousand dollars for each individual".

Photo Disclosure Occurs Before DOJ Due Date

The panel has many thousands of images in its possession from the Epstein property, which are "both explicit and everyday," its announcement on Thursday clarified.

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

The photographs and documents the Epstein estate's representatives submitted to the panel are separate from what is largely referred to "the Epstein files". Those are papers under the DOJ's custody related to its separate inquiry into Epstein.

Pursuant to the Transparency Act, which President Trump made law recently, the DOJ has until 19 December to release its documents. The extent of what is contained in the DOJ's files is not publicly known, and it's probable that a significant portion of the material will be significantly obscured, similar to the committee's releases