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The Congressional oversight panel has released a collection of approximately 70 images from the estate of late found guilty sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This constitutes the third such release from a tranche of in excess of 95,000 images the body has secured from Epstein's holdings. It features pictures of quotes from the novel Lolita scrawled across a woman's body, and obscured images of female foreign passports.

This disclosure arrives hours before the December 19th deadline for the Justice Department to release each documents associated with its investigation into Epstein.

"These new photographs pose further inquiries about precisely what the DOJ has in its possession," stated the Democratic lead of the panel, Robert Garcia.

Contents in the Images Released

Several of the photographs published on Thursday show Epstein in discussion with academic and activist Noam Chomsky inside a private plane; Bill Gates standing next to a individual whose features is obscured; Steve Bannon sitting at a workstation across from Epstein, and former Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a evening meal.

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These are the most recent wealthy, influential individuals to be photographed in Epstein's estate images released by the oversight panel - previously disclosed images also include US President Donald Trump and ex-president Bill Clinton, as well as movie director Woody Allen, former US treasury secretary Larry Summers, attorney Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and additional individuals.

Being pictured in the photos is not indication of any illegal activity, and a number of the pictured figures have stated they were not participating in Epstein's criminal activity.

In a statement issued alongside the photograph publication, Lawmakers on the US House Oversight Committee noted the Epstein property holders did not provide context or timeframes for the photographs.

"Images were picked to furnish the American people with clarity into a typical cross-section of the images obtained from the estate, and to give perspectives into Epstein's circle and his profoundly troubling behavior," the release reads.

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The disclosure also includes a number of photographs of quotes from the Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita written in black ink across different parts of a woman's body, including her upper body, lower extremity, pelvis, and rear. Lolita recounts the story of a young girl who was groomed by a older literature professor.

One passage from the book inscribed across a woman's upper body reads, "Lo-lee-ta: the end of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to land, at three, on the teeth".

There are also a collection of photos of female travel documents and official papers from countries around the world, like Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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Most of the details on the papers, including names and dates of birth, is redacted but the House Oversight Committee indicated in a statement that the travel documents belong to "individuals whom Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators were interacting with".

An additional image shows Epstein positioned at a desk closely in the company of three individuals whose identities have been censored - one individual has her palm on Epstein's upper body under his shirt, and a second is crouching to view a adjacent laptop. Epstein can be seen to be helping the third individual attach a piece of jewelry.

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An additional photo made public is a screenshot of SMS messages from an unnamed sender who states they have been supplied "several females" and are demanding "$1000 per girl".

Photograph Publication Occurs Before DOJ Deadline

The panel has a vast number of photos in its possession from the Epstein holdings, which are "both graphic and mundane," its statement on this week noted.

The oversight panel first subpoenaed the property of Epstein, who died in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking, in August.

The images and files the Epstein estate provided to the committee are separate from what is commonly referred to "the Epstein files". That material are papers in the Department of Justice's custody connected to its own investigation into Epstein.

Pursuant to the Transparency Act, which the President enacted recently, the DOJ has until 19 December to disclose its files. The full nature of what's contained in the DOJ's records is not publicly known, and it's likely that much of the material will be significantly redacted, akin to Congressional materials