đź”— Share this article Democrats Unveil Most Recent Set of Epstein Photos as Justice Department Cut-off Date Nears Oversight Panel The Congressional oversight panel has published a batch of roughly 70 images obtained from the property of late adjudicated sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. This constitutes the latest in a series of release from a cache of over 95,000 photos the committee has secured from Epstein's property. It contains pictures of quotes from the book Lolita written across a female's body, and censored photos of women's foreign passports. This release occurs hours before the 19 December deadline for the Department of Justice to release all records related to its investigation into Epstein. "These photos bring up further queries about exactly what the DOJ has in its custody," said the Democratic lead of the committee, Robert Garcia. What is in the Photographs Released A number of the photographs released on Thursday depict Epstein in discussion with professor and activist Noam Chomsky aboard a private jet; Bill Gates standing alongside a female whose face is obscured; Steve Bannon positioned at a workstation facing Epstein, and ex- Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner gathering. Oversight Panel These are the latest wealthy, powerful figures to be seen in Epstein property photographs released by the House Oversight Committee - earlier published images also show US President Donald Trump and ex-president Bill Clinton, as well as director Woody Allen, ex- US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, attorney Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and other figures. Showing up in the photographs is not indication of any misconduct, and many of the featured figures have asserted they were never implicated in Epstein's unlawful actions. In a statement released with the image release, Lawmakers on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein estate's representatives did not offer explanatory details or dates for the images. "Photographs were selected to offer the public with openness into a illustrative selection of the photos obtained from the estate, and to offer perspectives into Epstein's circle and his exceptionally disturbing actions," the statement states. Oversight Panel The publication also features a number of photos of quotes from the Vladimir Nabokov literary work Lolita written in dark ink across different parts of a female's body, such as her torso, lower extremity, hipbone, and rear. Lolita narrates the tale of a minor who was exploited by a middle-aged literature professor. An example of a quote from the book scrawled across a female's chest reads, "Lo-lee-ta: the point of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the roof of the mouth to alight, at three, on the teeth". There are also a series of images of female passports and official papers from states around the world, like Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine. Oversight Panel The majority of the information on the IDs, like identities and DOBs, is redacted but the committee said in a statement that the passports are associated with "individuals whom Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were involved with". An additional photo depicts Epstein positioned at a table in close proximity flanked by three female figures whose features have been redacted - a first has her hand on Epstein's chest under his garment, and another is crouching to view a nearby computer. Epstein appears to be aiding the third attach a piece of jewelry. Oversight Panel A further image made public is a screenshot of digital messages from an unidentified individual who claims they have been sent "some girls" and are asking for "$one thousand dollars per girl". Photograph Publication Arrives Prior to DOJ Cut-off The body has many thousands of photos in its possession from the Epstein property, which are "simultaneously graphic and everyday," its statement on Thursday clarified. The oversight panel first legally compelled the holdings of Epstein, who died in a New York jail in 2019 while pending legal proceedings on charges of sex trafficking, in August. The photographs and records the Epstein property submitted to the body are separate from what is largely called "the Epstein files". Those are documents within the DOJ's control related to its own probe into Epstein. Pursuant to the Transparency Act, which Donald Trump signed into law in November, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to disclose its records. The scope of what is included in the DOJ's documents is unclear, and it's expected that a significant portion of the material will be heavily censored, akin to Congressional documents