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The Congressional oversight panel has released a batch of roughly 70 photographs secured from the holdings of deceased adjudicated sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

This marks the third publication from a cache of more than 95,000 photographs the committee has secured from Epstein's holdings. It features images of excerpts from the book Lolita inscribed across a female's body, and obscured pictures of female international passports.

This action arrives just hours before the December 19th due date for the Justice Department to disclose every documents connected to its inquiry into Epstein.

"These latest photos pose further inquiries about precisely what the Justice Department has in its holdings," said the senior Democrat of the panel, Robert Garcia.

Contents in the Photos Disclosed

A number of the photos released on Thursday feature Epstein conversing with scholar and advocate Noam Chomsky aboard a private plane; Bill Gates positioned beside a individual whose features is redacted; Steve Bannon seated at a desk facing Epstein, and ex- Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner event.

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These are the latest wealthy, powerful individuals to be pictured in Epstein property images disclosed by the oversight panel - formerly published photos also show 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 others.

Appearing in the photographs is is not considered proof of any illegal activity, and a number of the pictured figures have said they were not involved in Epstein's criminal activity.

In a press release accompanying the image release, Lawmakers on the US House Oversight Committee noted the Epstein estate's representatives did not provide explanatory details or timeframes for the pictures.

"Images were picked to offer the American people with clarity into a typical cross-section of the photos received from the property, and to provide understanding into Epstein's circle and his profoundly alarming actions," the announcement reads.

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The publication also includes a number of images of excerpts from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita penned in dark ink across different parts of a female's body, such as her upper body, foot, pelvis, and rear. Lolita tells the tale of a minor who was manipulated by a older literature professor.

One quote from the book written across a woman's upper body states, "Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth".

Additionally, there are a number of images of female travel documents and ID papers from states globally, such as Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

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The majority of the details on the papers, including names and dates of birth, is redacted but the panel stated in a announcement that the passports pertain to "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators were involved with".

An additional photo features Epstein sitting at a workstation in close proximity flanked by three individuals whose identities have been obscured - one individual has her hand on Epstein's chest under his shirt, and a second is crouching to view a adjacent computer. Epstein seems to be assisting the final person put on a bracelet.

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A further photograph made public is a screenshot of text messages from an unidentified person who states they have been sent "a number of girls" and are asking for "$$1,000 per girl".

Photo Disclosure Comes Prior to DOJ Due Date

The panel has many thousands of photos in its possession from the Epstein holdings, which are "at once disturbing and everyday," its announcement on this week clarified.

The House Oversight Committee first subpoenaed the estate of Epstein, who died in a New York prison in 2019 while facing trial on accusations of sex trafficking, in August.

The images and records the Epstein property gave to the committee are separate from what is largely referred to "the Epstein documents". That material are documents under the DOJ's possession connected to its independent inquiry into Epstein.

Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Donald Trump enacted in November, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to release its records. The scope of what is included in the DOJ's files is unknown, and it's likely that a large amount of the information will be heavily redacted, akin to Congressional releases