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The Congressional oversight panel has made public a collection of approximately 70 photographs secured from the holdings of deceased convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This marks the third such disclosure from a cache of in excess of 95,000 photos the panel has acquired from Epstein's holdings. It contains pictures of excerpts from the novel Lolita inscribed across a female's body, and obscured pictures of female international passports.

This disclosure comes just hours before the 19th of December cut-off for the Justice Department to make public every files related to its investigation into Epstein.

"These new photographs raise further inquiries about what exactly the Department of Justice has in its custody," stated the ranking member of the panel, Robert Garcia.

What is in the Images Disclosed

Several of the photos made public on Thursday depict Epstein in discussion with scholar and advocate Noam Chomsky inside a personal aircraft; Bill Gates standing next to a female whose face is obscured; Steve Bannon sitting at a desk facing Epstein, and ex- Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner gathering.

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These are the most recent wealthy, powerful men to be pictured in Epstein property photos disclosed by the committee - earlier released photos also show US President Donald Trump and ex-president Bill Clinton, as well as film director Woody Allen, previous US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and others.

Appearing in the photos is does not constitute proof of any misconduct, and many of the pictured figures have asserted they were in no way involved in Epstein's criminal activity.

In a announcement issued alongside the image disclosure, Democratic members on the US House Oversight Committee stated the Epstein estate's representatives did not provide explanatory details or dates for the images.

"Photographs were chosen to furnish the American people with transparency into a illustrative selection of the images received from the property, and to offer insights into Epstein's circle and his exceptionally disturbing activities," the statement reads.

Investigative Body

The publication also contains multiple photos of passages from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita penned in dark ink across several locations of a woman's body, such as her chest, feet, pelvis, and rear. Lolita narrates the account of a adolescent who was groomed by a adult literature professor.

One quote from the novel written across a woman's upper body says, "Lo-lee-ta: the end of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the mouth to alight, at three, on the teeth".

There are also a series of photographs of female identification and identification documents from states globally, such as Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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The majority of the information on the documents, like identities and DOBs, is censored but the panel indicated in a announcement that the travel documents pertain to "women whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators were involved with".

A further photograph shows Epstein positioned at a desk closely in the company of three individuals whose identities have been censored - one has her hand on Epstein's chest under his garment, and another is bending to view a adjacent computer. Epstein seems to be assisting the third fasten a piece of jewelry.

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Another photo made public is a capture of SMS messages from an unknown person who claims they have been supplied "several females" and are demanding "$1000 per female".

Photograph Publication Occurs Prior to DOJ Cut-off

The body has thousands of photographs in its custody from the Epstein estate, which are "both disturbing and ordinary," its statement on Thursday noted.

The House Oversight Committee first legally compelled the estate of Epstein, who died in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while pending legal proceedings on allegations of sex trafficking crimes, in August.

The photographs and records the Epstein estate provided to the body are distinct from what is largely called "Epstein-related records". Those are records under the Department of Justice's control related to its own probe into Epstein.

Under the recently passed law, which the President made law last month, the DOJ has until the date of 19 December to disclose its files. The scope of the contents included in the DOJ's records is not publicly known, and it's probable that much of the material will be heavily redacted, akin to House Oversight Committee documents