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The Congressional oversight panel has released a batch of roughly 70 images secured from the holdings of late convicted individual convicted of sex crimes Jeffrey Epstein.

This marks the third such release from a cache of more than 95,000 photographs the panel has obtained from Epstein's estate. It features photographs of passages from the novel Lolita written across a woman's body, and censored photos of female international passports.

This disclosure comes hours before the 19 December cut-off for the Department of Justice to release each files related to its investigation into Epstein.

"These photographs pose more queries about precisely what the Justice Department has in its possession," said the senior Democrat of the panel, Robert Garcia.

What's in the Photographs Released

A number of the photos published on this week depict Epstein speaking with scholar and advocate Noam Chomsky on a private jet; Bill Gates positioned beside a individual whose features is redacted; Steve Bannon sitting at a workstation across from Epstein, and previous Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner gathering.

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These are the newest high-net-worth, powerful individuals to be pictured in Epstein property photos published by the House Oversight Committee - previously published images also include US President Donald Trump and ex-president Bill Clinton, as well as director Woody Allen, ex- US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, counsel Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and other figures.

Showing up in the images is does not constitute proof of any misconduct, and several of the pictured men have stated they were never involved in Epstein's criminal activity.

In a statement issued alongside the image release, Lawmakers on the US House Oversight Committee stated the Epstein estate's representatives did not supply explanatory details or timeframes for the images.

"Photographs were picked to provide the general populace with clarity into a representative sample of the photographs received from the property, and to provide understanding into Epstein's network and his exceptionally alarming activities," the announcement reads.

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The release also includes multiple photographs of quotes from the Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita inscribed in ink across several locations of a female's body, like her torso, lower extremity, pelvis, and rear. Lolita narrates the tale of a young girl who was exploited by a older literature professor.

An example of a quote from the novel scrawled across a woman's torso says, "Lolita's name: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the roof of the mouth to alight, at three, on the teeth".

The release also contains a number of photographs of women's identification and ID papers from nations globally, including Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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The majority of the data on the IDs, including identities and birth dates, is obscured but the House Oversight Committee indicated in a statement that the passports are associated with "individuals whom Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators were interacting with".

Another image depicts Epstein positioned at a table closely flanked by three women whose faces have been censored - a first has her hand on Epstein's upper body under his garment, and a second is leaning to look at a adjacent laptop. Epstein seems to be helping the third individual put on a wristband.

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An additional photo released is a capture of SMS messages from an unknown person who says they have been provided "some girls" and are requesting "$one thousand dollars per girl".

Photograph Disclosure Occurs Ahead of DOJ Deadline

The panel has many thousands of photographs in its possession from the Epstein property, which are "both explicit and mundane," its announcement on Thursday clarified.

The Congressional committee first subpoenaed the holdings of Epstein, who passed away in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking crimes, in August.

The photographs and documents the Epstein property submitted to the body are different than what is commonly termed "the Epstein files". Those files are records in the Department of Justice's custody associated with its separate investigation into Epstein.

In accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump enacted recently, the DOJ has until the date of 19 December to publish its files. The extent of the contents included in the DOJ's documents is unknown, and it's probable that much of the information will be significantly obscured, similar to Congressional releases