Congressional Democrats on Thursday released dozens of new images from the estate of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a day before the U.S. Justice Department is legally required to release unclassified files from its investigation of the disgraced financier.
The most recent collection features 68 images that reveal unsettling details: detailed close-ups of phrases from Lolita written in black ink on various parts of a woman’s body, including her chest, foot, neck, and back; redacted identification cards belonging to women from Russia, Morocco, Italy, the Czech Republic, South Africa, Ukraine, and Lithuania; and a late-night conversation via text about sending girls to someone referred to as “j” for $1,000 each.
These images are among approximately 95,000 that Epstein’s estate submitted to the House Oversight Committee. Recently, Democrats unveiled 19 photographs, including a few featuring current President Donald Trump, who dismissed the images as “no big deal.”
The new release also shows Bill Gates, professor and political activist Noam Chomsky, and former Trump aide Steve Bannon. Representatives for Gates, Chomsky, and Bannon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Committee Democrats said the photos “were selected to provide the public with transparency into a representative sample of the photos” and “to provide insights into Epstein’s network and his extremely disturbing activities.”
They noted that thousands more images, “both graphic and mundane,” are still being examined.
“Oversight Democrats will continue to release photographs and documents from the Epstein estate to provide transparency for the American people,” said California Representative Robert Garcia, top Democrat on the Oversight Committee.
“As we approach the deadline for the Epstein Files Transparency Act, these new images raise more questions about what exactly the Department of Justice has in its possession. We must end this White House cover-up, and the (United States Department of Justice) DOJ must release the Epstein files now.”
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson responded, saying the latest release changes nothing. “President Trump has been consistently calling for transparency related to the Epstein files and his administration has delivered,” she said in a statement.