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The House investigative committee has made public a batch of approximately 70 images secured from the holdings of late convicted individual convicted of sex crimes Jeffrey Epstein.

This represents the third release from a cache of in excess of 95,000 images the body has secured from Epstein's estate. It includes pictures of excerpts from the literary work Lolita written across a woman's body, and redacted pictures of women's foreign passports.

This action comes hours before the 19th of December due date for the DOJ to disclose all records related to its inquiry into Epstein.

"These new images pose further questions about exactly what the DOJ has in its holdings," stated the Democratic lead of the committee, Robert Garcia.

What's in the Photos Released

A number of the images published on recently feature Epstein conversing with scholar and advocate Noam Chomsky on a private jet; Bill Gates positioned beside a individual whose face is redacted; Steve Bannon positioned at a workstation opposite Epstein, and former Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner gathering.

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These are the latest high-net-worth, prominent individuals to be photographed in Epstein's estate images released by the committee - previously disclosed pictures also include US President Donald Trump and ex-president Bill Clinton, as well as movie director Woody Allen, previous US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, counsel Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and others.

Appearing in the images is not evidence of any misconduct, and several of the pictured men have stated they were never involved in Epstein's criminal activity.

In a press release accompanying the image publication, Democratic members on the US House Oversight Committee noted the Epstein property holders did not offer background information or timeframes for the photographs.

"Photographs were chosen to furnish the American people with clarity into a representative sample of the photographs obtained from the holdings, and to provide perspectives into Epstein's network and his profoundly disturbing activities," the release reads.

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The disclosure also features a number of photos of passages from the Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita written in dark ink across various areas of a female's body, including her torso, foot, hipbone, and rear. Lolita tells the account of a adolescent who was groomed by a adult literature professor.

A particular quote from the book scrawled across a female's torso states, "Lolita: the point of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to alight, at three, on the teeth".

Additionally, there are a number of photos of female passports and official papers from countries globally, including Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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A large portion of the details on the papers, such as identities and DOBs, is obscured but the House Oversight Committee said in a press release that the passports are associated with "women whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators were involved with".

An additional photo shows Epstein sitting at a desk in close proximity in the company of three individuals whose identities have been censored - a first has her hand on Epstein's upper body under his shirt, and another is leaning to view a adjacent device. Epstein can be seen to be helping the third individual fasten a bracelet.

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Another image disclosed is a image of text messages from an unidentified sender who states they have been sent "several females" and are demanding "$$1,000 per female".

Photo Publication Comes Ahead of DOJ Deadline

The committee has a vast number of images in its custody from the Epstein property, which are "both disturbing and ordinary," its statement on recently explained.

The House Oversight Committee first legally compelled the property of Epstein, who died in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while awaiting trial on accusations of sex trafficking crimes, in August.

The photographs and files the Epstein estate submitted to the panel are separate from what is commonly termed "the Epstein documents". Those are documents under the Department of Justice's custody related to its separate investigation into Epstein.

In accordance with the recently passed law, which the President made law recently, the DOJ has until 19 December to disclose its records. The extent of the contents contained in the DOJ's files is not publicly known, and it's probable that a significant portion of the content will be heavily redacted, akin to House Oversight Committee documents