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The House investigative committee has made public a set of roughly 70 images secured from the holdings of former found guilty sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This marks the latest in a series of release from a larger collection of more than 95,000 photographs the body has secured from Epstein's estate. It includes images of quotes from the novel Lolita written across a female's body, and censored photos of female foreign passports.

This disclosure comes mere hours before the 19 December due date for the Department of Justice to release all records related to its probe into Epstein.

"These photographs pose more inquiries about what exactly the Justice Department has in its possession," stated the Democratic lead of the panel, Robert Garcia.

What's in the Photographs Released

Some of the images published on recently feature Epstein speaking with academic and activist Noam Chomsky on a private jet; Bill Gates standing beside a female whose features is redacted; Steve Bannon seated at a table facing Epstein, and ex- Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a evening meal.

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These are the newest affluent, influential men to be seen in Epstein's estate photographs published by the oversight panel - earlier disclosed photos also include US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as director Woody Allen, previous US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and other figures.

Showing up in the photographs is is not considered indication of any wrongdoing, and many of the photographed men have said they were in no way involved in Epstein's illegal activity.

In a press release accompanying the photograph release, Democratic members on the US House Oversight Committee noted the Epstein estate did not supply explanatory details or timeframes for the pictures.

"Images were chosen to furnish the public with clarity into a representative sample of the photographs acquired from the holdings, and to give perspectives into Epstein's associates and his profoundly troubling activities," the announcement reads.

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The release also features a number of photos of quotes from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita inscribed in ink across several locations of a woman's body, including her upper body, lower extremity, hip, and rear. Lolita recounts the tale of a adolescent who was exploited by a older literature professor.

An example of a excerpt from the work scrawled across a female's chest says, "Lo-lee-ta: the point of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the palate to alight, at three, on the teeth".

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

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The majority of the information on the documents, such as identities and dates of birth, is censored but the House Oversight Committee said in a announcement that the passports belong to "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were interacting with".

A further photo shows Epstein positioned at a workstation in close proximity flanked by three individuals whose identities have been obscured - a first has her palm on Epstein's torso under his clothing, and another individual is leaning to view a nearby computer. Epstein can be seen to be aiding the third individual fasten a wristband.

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Another image released is a image of text messages from an unknown sender who states they have been sent "several females" and are asking for "$$1,000 for each individual".

Photo Release Occurs Prior to DOJ Deadline

The panel has thousands of photographs in its custody from the Epstein estate, which are "simultaneously disturbing and everyday," its press release on Thursday clarified.

The Congressional committee first issued a subpoena to the property of Epstein, who was found dead in a New York prison in 2019 while pending legal proceedings on charges of sex trafficking crimes, in August.

The images and records the Epstein property provided to the committee are different than what is largely called "the Epstein files". Those files are records under the Department of Justice's control related to its own inquiry into Epstein.

In accordance with the Transparency Act, which the President made law in November, the DOJ has until 19 December to release its records. The scope of what's included in the DOJ's documents is unknown, and it's likely that a significant portion of the material will be extensively obscured, akin to the committee's materials