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The House investigative committee has released a batch of approximately 70 images obtained from the property of former found guilty sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This marks the third such publication from a larger collection of more than 95,000 photos the body has acquired from Epstein's holdings. It contains photographs of quotes from the novel Lolita written across a woman's body, and redacted pictures of women's overseas passports.

This action comes hours before the 19th of December cut-off for the Justice Department to disclose all records connected to its probe into Epstein.

"These latest photos raise additional queries about precisely what the Justice Department has in its holdings," stated the ranking member of the committee, Robert Garcia.

What's in the Photos Disclosed

Some of the photographs published on Thursday depict Epstein in discussion with professor and activist Noam Chomsky on a private jet; Bill Gates positioned beside a individual whose features is redacted; Steve Bannon sitting at a table opposite Epstein, and former Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner event.

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These are the newest wealthy, influential men to be pictured in Epstein property images released by the House Oversight Committee - earlier released pictures also show US President Donald Trump and past president Bill Clinton, as well as film director Woody Allen, previous US treasury secretary Larry Summers, attorney Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and additional individuals.

Showing up in the photographs is not evidence of any wrongdoing, and many of the pictured men have stated they were never involved in Epstein's illegal activity.

In a press release released with the photograph release, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein property holders did not offer explanatory details or timings for the images.

"Images were chosen to furnish the general populace with transparency into a illustrative selection of the photos received from the holdings, and to offer perspectives into Epstein's associates and his extremely alarming behavior," the release reads.

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The disclosure also features a number of images of passages from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita written in black ink across several locations of a woman's body, including her upper body, lower extremity, pelvis, and spine. Lolita recounts the story of a minor who was groomed by a adult literature professor.

A particular excerpt from the novel inscribed across a woman's torso reads, "Lolita: the point of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the mouth to tap, at three, on the teeth".

Additionally, there are a number of photographs of women's passports and official papers from states worldwide, including Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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Most of the information on the documents, like identities and DOBs, is censored but the committee indicated in a press release that the passports are associated with "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were involved with".

Another photograph features Epstein sitting at a desk in close proximity in the company of three female figures whose identities have been censored - one has her palm on Epstein's chest under his garment, and another individual is crouching to examine a close-by device. Epstein can be seen to be aiding the final person fasten a bracelet.

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An additional photo released is a capture of text messages from an unidentified sender who claims they have been supplied "several females" and are requesting "$one thousand dollars per girl".

Photograph Publication Comes Prior to DOJ Due Date

The committee has many thousands of images in its holdings from the Epstein property, which are "at once explicit and ordinary," its press release on Thursday explained.

The Congressional committee first issued a subpoena to the holdings of Epstein, who was found dead in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while awaiting trial on allegations of sex trafficking, in August.

The images and documents the Epstein estate provided to the panel are distinct from what is commonly termed "the Epstein files". That material are documents within the DOJ's control connected to its separate investigation into Epstein.

Pursuant to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump signed into law recently, the DOJ has until the date of 19 December to release its documents. The full nature of the contents included in the DOJ's files is not publicly known, and it's expected that a significant portion of the content will be heavily obscured, akin to Congressional documents