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The House Oversight Committee has made public a set of around 70 photos obtained from the property of late adjudicated sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

This marks the latest in a series of publication from a tranche of in excess of 95,000 images the body has obtained from Epstein's property. It features images of passages from the literary work Lolita written across a woman's body, and redacted photos of female overseas passports.

This action arrives hours before the December 19th due date for the Department of Justice to make public each files related to its probe into Epstein.

"These new photographs bring up further questions about precisely what the Department of Justice has in its holdings," stated the ranking member of the panel, Robert Garcia.

Contents in the Images Made Public

A number of the images made public on Thursday depict Epstein conversing with academic and activist Noam Chomsky aboard a private plane; Bill Gates standing alongside a woman whose features is redacted; Steve Bannon sitting at a table facing Epstein, and former Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner gathering.

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These are the newest affluent, influential individuals to be photographed in Epstein property images disclosed by the committee - formerly published images also show US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as film director Woody Allen, former US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, counsel Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and other figures.

Showing up in the images is is not considered proof of any misconduct, and several of the pictured individuals have asserted they were in no way participating in Epstein's criminal activity.

In a statement issued alongside the photo disclosure, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein estate's representatives did not offer background information or timeframes for the photographs.

"Images were picked to furnish the public with openness into a illustrative selection of the images received from the holdings, and to offer perspectives into Epstein's circle and his extremely disturbing behavior," the release states.

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The release also includes several photographs of excerpts from the Vladimir Nabokov literary work Lolita written in dark ink across different parts of a female's body, including her upper body, feet, hipbone, and spine. Lolita recounts the account of a adolescent who was manipulated by a middle-aged literature professor.

One passage from the work inscribed across a female's upper body states, "Lolita's name: the point of the tongue traveling of three steps down the roof of the mouth to alight, at three, on the teeth".

The release also contains a series of photos of female travel documents and official papers from countries worldwide, such as Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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A large portion of the details on the documents, like names and DOBs, is censored but the panel indicated in a statement that the passports belong to "individuals whom Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were interacting with".

An additional image features Epstein sitting at a desk closely flanked by three individuals whose faces have been obscured - a first has her hand on Epstein's chest under his shirt, and a second is crouching to look at a adjacent device. Epstein seems to be assisting the third individual put on a piece of jewelry.

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Another photo released is a image of text messages from an unidentified sender who states they have been provided "several females" and are requesting "$one thousand dollars per female".

Image Release Arrives Before DOJ Cut-off

The panel has many thousands of photographs in its possession from the Epstein holdings, which are "at once disturbing and everyday," its announcement on recently explained.

The House Oversight Committee first issued a subpoena to the property of Epstein, who passed away in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while facing trial on charges of human trafficking, in August.

The images and files the Epstein property submitted to the committee are separate from what is commonly referred to "the Epstein documents". Those are papers under the justice department's custody related to its separate investigation into Epstein.

Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump enacted recently, the DOJ has until 19 December to publish its files. The scope of what's included in the DOJ's documents is not publicly known, and it's expected that much of the information will be extensively obscured, comparable to the committee's releases