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The Congressional oversight panel has made public a batch of approximately 70 photographs from the estate of deceased adjudicated sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This constitutes the third disclosure from a larger collection of over 95,000 photos the committee has obtained from Epstein's estate. It contains pictures of excerpts from the novel Lolita written across a female's body, and censored photos of female international passports.

This release arrives hours before the 19 December due date for the DOJ to release each documents connected to its probe into Epstein.

"These latest photos raise additional questions about what exactly the DOJ has in its holdings," remarked the Democratic lead of the committee, Robert Garcia.

What is in the Images Released

A number of the photos made public on this week show Epstein in discussion with professor and activist Noam Chomsky aboard a private plane; Bill Gates standing beside a individual whose identity is obscured; Steve Bannon seated at a table across from Epstein, and former Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner gathering.

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These are the newest high-net-worth, influential men to be photographed in Epstein estate photos disclosed by the oversight panel - formerly released pictures also depict US President Donald Trump and ex-president Bill Clinton, as well as director Woody Allen, ex- US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and additional individuals.

Appearing in the images is is not considered evidence of any wrongdoing, and several of the photographed individuals have asserted they were not implicated in Epstein's criminal activity.

In a statement released with the photo release, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee noted the Epstein estate's representatives did not offer explanatory details or timeframes for the images.

"Photos were selected to provide the general populace with openness into a representative sample of the photographs obtained from the holdings, and to provide perspectives into Epstein's circle and his exceptionally disturbing behavior," the announcement states.

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The disclosure also contains a number of images of passages from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita inscribed in dark ink across various areas of a woman's body, including her upper body, feet, hipbone, and back. Lolita tells the account of a adolescent who was exploited by a middle-aged literature professor.

A particular excerpt from the book inscribed across a female's upper body says, "Lo-lee-ta: the point of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth".

There are also a collection of photographs of women's passports and official papers from countries worldwide, including Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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Most of the details on the IDs, such as identities and birth dates, is censored but the panel indicated in a announcement that the travel documents are associated with "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were interacting with".

An additional photograph depicts Epstein sitting at a table intimately in the company of three individuals whose identities have been redacted - one has her palm on Epstein's upper body under his garment, and another individual is bending to look at a adjacent device. Epstein can be seen to be aiding the third put on a wristband.

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Another image made public is a screenshot of SMS messages from an unidentified individual who claims they have been supplied "several females" and are requesting "$one thousand dollars for each individual".

Photo Disclosure Comes Before DOJ Deadline

The committee has a vast number of photographs in its custody from the Epstein holdings, which are "at once graphic and mundane," its press release on Thursday explained.

The House Oversight Committee first subpoenaed the holdings of Epstein, who passed away in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while pending legal proceedings on accusations of sex trafficking, in August.

The photos and documents the Epstein property provided to the panel are separate from what is largely termed "the Epstein documents". Those are records in the justice department's possession connected to its own investigation into Epstein.

Under the recently passed law, which the President enacted last month, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to publish its records. The scope of what's found in the DOJ's documents is unclear, and it's likely that much of the content will be extensively obscured, comparable to Congressional documents