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The Congressional oversight panel has published a set of roughly 70 images secured from the holdings of late adjudicated sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This marks the third publication from a larger collection of over 95,000 photos the body has acquired from Epstein's holdings. It contains images of quotes from the book Lolita scrawled across a female's body, and censored pictures of women's international passports.

This disclosure arrives hours before the 19 December due date for the DOJ to disclose each files associated with its investigation into Epstein.

"These photographs bring up further queries about precisely what the Department of Justice has in its holdings," remarked the ranking member of the committee, Robert Garcia.

What is in the Photographs Made Public

Several of the photos published on Thursday feature Epstein conversing with professor and activist Noam Chomsky aboard a private plane; Bill Gates seen next to a individual whose identity is obscured; Steve Bannon seated at a table opposite Epstein, and previous Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a evening meal.

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

Showing up in the photos is does not constitute proof of any wrongdoing, and several of the featured individuals have stated they were never implicated in Epstein's illegal activity.

In a statement issued alongside the photograph release, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee noted the Epstein estate's representatives did not supply explanatory details or timeframes for the images.

"Photographs were selected to offer the American people with transparency into a typical cross-section of the photographs obtained from the property, and to give insights into Epstein's associates and his exceptionally troubling behavior," the release states.

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The release also includes a number of images of passages from the Vladimir Nabokov literary work Lolita inscribed in dark ink across different parts of a woman's body, like her chest, lower extremity, hip, and back. Lolita tells the story of a young girl who was exploited by a older literature professor.

One quote from the book inscribed across a female's torso says, "Lo-lee-ta: the end of the tongue traveling of three steps down the mouth to tap, at three, on the teeth".

Additionally, there are a number of photographs of women's travel documents and ID papers from states around the world, such as Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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A large portion of the data on the IDs, such as identities and DOBs, is redacted but the panel said in a statement that the passports belong to "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators were interacting with".

A further photo shows Epstein sitting at a desk in close proximity flanked by three women whose faces have been obscured - a first has her hand on Epstein's torso under his clothing, and another is leaning to look at a nearby device. Epstein seems to be assisting the final person attach a piece of jewelry.

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Another photo disclosed is a image of SMS messages from an unknown individual who claims they have been sent "some girls" and are asking for "$1000 per girl".

Photo Release Comes Prior to DOJ Deadline

The committee has many thousands of photos in its custody from the Epstein estate, which are "simultaneously graphic and ordinary," its press release on Thursday explained.

The oversight panel first legally compelled the estate of Epstein, who passed away in a New York jail in 2019 while facing trial on charges of human trafficking, in August.

The images and records the Epstein estate gave to the body are different than what is commonly referred to "Epstein-related records". Those are records under the DOJ's possession related to its independent probe into Epstein.

Pursuant to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump enacted last month, the DOJ has until 19 December to publish its documents. The full nature of what's contained in the DOJ's files is unclear, and it's expected that much of the information will be significantly censored, similar to House Oversight Committee releases