House Democrats Release Another Batch of Epstein Photos

A day before the deadline for the Justice Department to release its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Thursday. publicly revealed another batch of photographs provided by the late financier’s estate in response to congressional subpoenas.

The cache of about 70 photographs includes heavily redacted photos of women’s passports, images of famous men who associated with Epstein and “text messages related to the recruitment of women for Jeffrey Epstein,” according to a statement from Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the committee, who released the images without any context explaining the circumstances of the photos.

“Supervisory Democrats will continue to release photographs and documents from Epstein’s estate to provide transparency to the American people,” Garcia said in the statement. “As we approach the deadline for the Epstein Files Transparency Act, these new images raise more questions about what exactly the Justice Department has in its possession. We must end this White House cover-up, and the Justice Department must release the Epstein files now.”

The photographs released Thursday are from a larger batch of more than 95,000 images delivered last week by Epstein’s estate. The photographs were provided to Congress without context, time or location. The images are therefore “presented as received,” the Democrats said.

One image shows billionaire Bill Gates standing with a woman (whose face is hidden) in what appears to be a hotel lobby. Another shows philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky on board a plane chatting with Epstein.

The appearance of the men in the photographs is not evidence of misconduct.

Another photo shows a woman’s lower leg and foot on what appears to be a bed, with a paperback copy of Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” in the background. On the woman’s foot is a handwritten quote from the controversial 1955 novel about a teacher’s obsession with a girl.

“She was Lo, just Lo, in the morning, she was four feet ten inches in a sock,” the quote reads.

Other images include a woman’s heavily redacted Ukrainian passport, with all identifying information covered in black boxes to protect her identity. After Epstein’s 2006 arrest and jail sentence in Florida for soliciting a minor, he allegedly focused on recruiting young women from Eastern European countries.

Epstein committed suicide in a New York jail in 2019.

A screenshot released Thursday of a text message chat, whose participants are not revealed, appears to involve a discussion about recruiting an 18-year-old woman to meet Epstein.

“I’ll send you girls now,” the message says. “Maybe someone will be good for J?”

A redacted description lists the woman’s name, age, height, weight and physical measurements. The message indicates that the woman would travel from Russia.

Last week, House Democrats released another selection of photos from Epstein’s estate.

The House Oversight Committee is conducting a wide-ranging investigation into the federal government’s handling of the investigations into Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The committee’s efforts are separate, though sometimes overlapping, from the new law, which requires the Justice Department to make public its files on Epstein by Friday.