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The Congressional oversight panel has released a batch of roughly 70 images from the estate of late convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This constitutes the third such publication from a tranche of over 95,000 images the panel has secured from Epstein's estate. It features pictures of excerpts from the literary work Lolita scrawled across a female's body, and obscured pictures of female international passports.

This action occurs hours before the December 19th due date for the DOJ to make public every records related to its probe into Epstein.

"These photos raise additional questions about exactly what the DOJ has in its possession," said the senior Democrat of the committee, Robert Garcia.

What is in the Photographs Disclosed

Several of the photos released on this week feature Epstein conversing with academic and activist Noam Chomsky on a private plane; Bill Gates positioned next to a female whose face is obscured; Steve Bannon positioned at a desk across from Epstein, and ex- Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a evening meal.

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These are the newest wealthy, influential men to be pictured in Epstein property photos disclosed by the House Oversight Committee - formerly released photos also include US President Donald Trump and past president Bill Clinton, as well as director Woody Allen, ex- US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, counsel Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and other figures.

Appearing in the photos is is not considered proof of any wrongdoing, and several of the featured figures have asserted they were not involved in Epstein's criminal activity.

In a announcement issued alongside the image disclosure, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee stated the Epstein estate's representatives did not offer background information or timings for the pictures.

"Photographs were chosen to offer the public with transparency into a typical cross-section of the photos obtained from the estate, and to give perspectives into Epstein's associates and his exceptionally troubling activities," the announcement states.

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The release also features a number of photographs of excerpts from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita inscribed in dark ink across different parts of a woman's body, such as her upper body, foot, hipbone, and spine. Lolita recounts the account of a minor who was manipulated by a adult literature professor.

One quote from the book scrawled across a woman's torso says, "Lolita: the point of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the roof of the mouth to land, at three, on the teeth".

There are also a number of images of women's passports and ID papers from countries globally, like Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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Most of the details on the papers, including identities and dates of birth, is obscured but the House Oversight Committee said in a announcement that the travel documents pertain to "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators were engaging".

Another photo shows Epstein seated at a workstation intimately flanked by three individuals whose identities have been obscured - a first has her palm on Epstein's chest under his garment, and another is bending to look at a nearby device. Epstein can be seen to be helping the final person fasten a bracelet.

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A further photo made public is a screenshot of text messages from an unnamed person who says they have been supplied "a number of girls" and are asking for "$$1,000 per female".

Photograph Disclosure Occurs Before DOJ Due Date

The body has thousands of photos in its possession from the Epstein holdings, which are "at once disturbing and ordinary," its press release on Thursday explained.

The Congressional committee first legally compelled the holdings of Epstein, who was found dead in a New York prison in 2019 while pending legal proceedings on allegations of human trafficking, in August.

The photos and files the Epstein estate's representatives provided to the panel are distinct from what is commonly called "the Epstein documents". Those are records under the justice department's possession related to its separate inquiry into Epstein.

Under the Transparency Act, which Donald Trump made law recently, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to disclose its files. The extent of what's contained in the DOJ's files is unclear, and it's likely that much of the material will be significantly censored, comparable to Congressional documents