Lolita quotes, women’s IDs: Democrats release dozens of new Epstein images

Washington: Congressional Democrats have released dozens of new images from the estate of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a day before the US Justice Department is required by law to release unclassified files from its investigation of the disgraced financier.

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 $1000 each.

Congressional Democrats released dozens of new images from the estate of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday.Credit: @OversightDems/X

The 68 photos are among some 95,000 the Epstein estate released to the House oversight committee.

Last week, oversight Democrats released 19 photos, including some featuring now-President Donald Trump, who dismissed the images as “no big deal”.

A text thread about sending girls for someone identified as “j” for $1000 each.Credit: @OversightDems/X

Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, professor and political activist Noam Chomsky and former Trump aide Steve Bannon are pictured in the latest images.

Committee Democrats said the images released on Thursday (Friday AEDT) “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.

“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.

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