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The Congressional oversight panel has made public a batch of approximately 70 photographs obtained from the property of late found guilty sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

This represents the third disclosure from a larger collection of over 95,000 photos the committee has obtained from Epstein's holdings. It includes pictures of passages from the novel Lolita inscribed across a female's body, and obscured photos of female overseas passports.

This release comes hours before the 19 December due date for the Justice Department to disclose each records associated with its probe into Epstein.

"These new images bring up more queries about precisely what the Justice Department has in its possession," stated the Democratic lead of the panel, Robert Garcia.

Contents in the Images Disclosed

Several of the photos made public on this week show Epstein conversing with scholar and advocate Noam Chomsky aboard a personal aircraft; Bill Gates positioned next to a woman whose face is redacted; Steve Bannon positioned at a desk opposite Epstein, and former Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner event.

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These are the latest wealthy, influential figures to be pictured in Epstein property photographs released by the oversight panel - previously published photos also include US President Donald Trump and ex-president Bill Clinton, as well as film director Woody Allen, former US treasury secretary Larry Summers, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and additional individuals.

Showing up in the photos is not proof of any illegal activity, and a number of the pictured figures have asserted they were not involved in Epstein's criminal activity.

In a announcement issued alongside the photograph publication, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee noted the Epstein estate did not offer explanatory details or dates for the images.

"Photographs were picked to offer the public with clarity into a illustrative selection of the photographs received from the property, and to provide understanding into Epstein's associates and his extremely disturbing actions," the announcement reads.

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The release also includes several photos of quotes from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita penned in black ink across various areas of a woman's body, such as her upper body, foot, pelvis, and back. Lolita tells the account of a adolescent who was manipulated by a adult literature professor.

One excerpt from the book scrawled across a female's upper body reads, "Lolita's name: the end of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the mouth to alight, at three, on the teeth".

There are also a collection of images of women's identification and ID papers from states globally, such as Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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The majority of the data on the papers, including identities and birth dates, is redacted but the panel said in a announcement that the travel documents pertain to "women whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators were involved with".

A further photograph features Epstein seated at a desk closely surrounded by three individuals whose faces have been redacted - a first has her hand on Epstein's torso under his clothing, and a second is leaning to view a close-by laptop. Epstein seems to be assisting the third individual put on a bracelet.

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A further photo made public is a capture of text messages from an unnamed sender who claims they have been supplied "several females" and are requesting "$one thousand dollars per female".

Photograph Publication Comes Ahead of DOJ Cut-off

The body has thousands of photos in its custody from the Epstein property, which are "at once explicit and ordinary," its announcement on recently clarified.

The Congressional committee first legally compelled the estate of Epstein, who died in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while awaiting trial on allegations of sex trafficking, in August.

The photos and documents the Epstein estate provided to the panel are separate from what is often called "the Epstein documents". Those files are papers in the Department of Justice's custody associated with its independent probe into Epstein.

Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Donald Trump made law recently, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to release its documents. The extent of what is found in the DOJ's files is not publicly known, and it's expected that a large amount of the material will be significantly redacted, akin to House Oversight Committee documents