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The House investigative committee has published a collection of approximately 70 images secured from the holdings of former adjudicated sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This represents the third publication from a tranche of more than 95,000 photos the panel has secured from Epstein's estate. It includes images of excerpts from the book Lolita scrawled across a woman's body, and redacted photos of women's overseas passports.

This action arrives hours before the 19 December due date for the DOJ to make public all files connected to its investigation into Epstein.

"These new photographs pose additional queries about what exactly the Department of Justice has in its possession," remarked the ranking member of the committee, Robert Garcia.

What is in the Photos Released

Some of the photographs made public on this week depict Epstein conversing with professor and activist Noam Chomsky inside a private jet; Bill Gates positioned next to a female whose features is censored; Steve Bannon positioned at a workstation opposite Epstein, and previous Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner gathering.

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These are the newest high-net-worth, prominent individuals to be seen in Epstein property images published by the oversight panel - earlier released images also depict US President Donald Trump and ex-president Bill Clinton, as well as director Woody Allen, previous US treasury secretary Larry Summers, attorney Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and other figures.

Appearing in the images is does not constitute indication of any illegal activity, and many of the pictured individuals have stated they were in no way implicated in Epstein's illegal activity.

In a press release issued alongside the photograph disclosure, Democratic members on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein estate's representatives did not provide context or timings for the pictures.

"Photos were selected to furnish the general populace with openness into a typical cross-section of the images acquired from the holdings, and to provide perspectives into Epstein's network and his exceptionally troubling activities," the announcement says.

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The disclosure also includes a number of images of excerpts from the Vladimir Nabokov literary work Lolita penned in ink across several locations of a woman's body, including her torso, feet, hip, and rear. Lolita recounts the tale of a minor who was manipulated by a middle-aged literature professor.

An example of a excerpt from the book written across a female's upper body states, "Lo-lee-ta: the end of the tongue traveling of three steps down the mouth to land, at three, on the teeth".

Additionally, there are a series of images of women's travel documents and ID papers from countries worldwide, like Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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Most of the data on the documents, including identities and DOBs, is obscured but the committee said in a announcement that the travel documents are associated with "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators were engaging".

An additional image depicts Epstein sitting at a desk intimately in the company of three women whose features have been obscured - a first has her hand on Epstein's upper body under his clothing, and a second is crouching to examine a nearby computer. Epstein can be seen to be assisting the third put on a wristband.

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Another image disclosed is a screenshot of text messages from an unidentified individual who says they have been provided "a number of girls" and are requesting "$1000 per girl".

Photo Disclosure Occurs Before DOJ Cut-off

The body has a vast number of images in its possession from the Epstein holdings, which are "at once graphic and mundane," its statement on Thursday noted.

The Congressional committee first subpoenaed the property of Epstein, who was found dead in a New York prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on allegations of sex trafficking crimes, in August.

The photos and records the Epstein estate provided to the committee are distinct from what is commonly referred to "Epstein-related records". That material are records within the Department of Justice's custody connected to its independent inquiry into Epstein.

Pursuant to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump made law last month, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to release its records. The extent of what is included in the DOJ's documents is unknown, and it's expected that a large amount of the information will be significantly obscured, akin to the committee's releases