Democrats release dozens more new images from Epstein estate
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WASHINGTON – Congressional Democrats released dozens of new images from the estate of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Dec 18, a day before the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is required by law to release unclassified files
The latest batch of images includes close-ups of sentences from Lolita, a book about a man’s obsession with a 12-year-old girl, scribbled in black ink across a woman’s body – chest, foot, neck and back; redacted identification cards of women from Russia, Morocco, Italy, Czech Republic, South Africa, Ukraine and Lithuania; and a late-night text thread about sending girls for someone identified as “j” for US$1,000 (S$1,300) each.
The 68 photos are among about 95,000 that Epstein’s estate released to the House Oversight Committee.
Last week, oversight Democrats released 19 photos
Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, professor and political activist Noam Chomsky and former Trump aide Steve Bannon are also pictured in the latest images.
Bill Gates appears with a woman, whose identity has been obscured, in an image from the Epstein estate.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Committee Democrats said the images released on Dec 18 “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”.
Democrats said they had thousands more images, “both graphic and mundane”, which they are continuing to analyse.
Philosopher Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Epstein in an undated handout photo.
PHOTO: REUTERS
“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, the 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,” he said.
“We must end this White House cover-up, and the DOJ must release the Epstein files now.”
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said the latest release changes nothing.
“President Trump has been consistently calling for transparency related to the Epstein files, and his administration has delivered,” Ms Jackson said in a statement.
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