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The House Oversight Committee has made public a set of roughly 70 photographs from the estate of late found guilty sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

This constitutes the third such release from a tranche of more than 95,000 photographs the body has obtained from Epstein's property. It includes pictures of excerpts from the novel Lolita inscribed across a woman's body, and redacted pictures of female overseas passports.

This action comes mere hours before the 19 December due date for the DOJ to make public each documents related to its inquiry into Epstein.

"These new photographs pose further inquiries about exactly what the DOJ has in its custody," said the ranking member of the panel, Robert Garcia.

Contents in the Photos Released

Several of the images published on recently feature Epstein speaking with scholar and advocate Noam Chomsky on a private jet; Bill Gates standing alongside a woman whose identity is censored; Steve Bannon positioned at a desk opposite Epstein, and previous Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner event.

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These are the latest wealthy, influential men to be seen in Epstein's estate images published by the committee - previously released images also depict US President Donald Trump and past president Bill Clinton, as well as film director Woody Allen, previous US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, attorney Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and other figures.

Showing up in the photos is does not constitute indication of any wrongdoing, and a number of the pictured figures have stated they were not implicated in Epstein's criminal activity.

In a statement issued alongside the image publication, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee said the Epstein estate's representatives did not supply explanatory details or timings for the images.

"Photographs were selected to provide the general populace with openness into a illustrative selection of the photos received from the holdings, and to give insights into Epstein's network and his profoundly troubling behavior," the release says.

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The release also includes multiple images of excerpts from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita written in ink across different parts of a woman's body, such as her upper body, feet, hip, and back. Lolita recounts the story of a adolescent who was exploited by a older literature professor.

A particular quote from the work written across a female's torso reads, "Lo-lee-ta: the end of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the mouth to tap, at three, on the teeth".

The release also contains a number of photographs of female travel documents and ID papers from countries around the world, such as Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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A large portion of the details on the IDs, like identities and dates of birth, is redacted but the House Oversight Committee indicated in a announcement that the travel documents pertain to "individuals whom Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators were interacting with".

A further photograph depicts Epstein positioned at a workstation intimately surrounded by three women whose features have been redacted - one individual has her palm on Epstein's torso under his garment, and another individual is crouching to examine a adjacent device. Epstein seems to be assisting the third put on a wristband.

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Another image released is a image of SMS messages from an unidentified sender who claims they have been supplied "a number of girls" and are demanding "$1000 per female".

Photo Publication Occurs Ahead of DOJ Deadline

The panel has thousands of photos in its possession from the Epstein property, which are "simultaneously disturbing and mundane," its statement on Thursday clarified.

The House Oversight Committee first subpoenaed the holdings of Epstein, who died in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking, in August.

The photographs and files the Epstein estate submitted to the body are different than what is often referred to "the Epstein files". That material are records within the justice department's custody associated with its own inquiry into Epstein.

Pursuant to the recently passed law, which the President made law last month, the DOJ has until 19 December to publish its documents. The full nature of what's contained in the DOJ's records is unclear, and it's expected that a large amount of the material will be significantly redacted, comparable to Congressional releases