Key Points
- US Democrats released 68 new images from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate to the House Oversight Committee.
- The photos feature figures such as Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Noam Chomsky and messages discussing payments for women.
- The release comes one day before a deadline requiring the disclosure of unclassified Epstein investigation files.
Congressional Democrats have released dozens of new images from the estate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, featuring United States President Donald Trump, Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon, billionaire Bill Gates and famed professor Noam Chomsky.
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.
They also feature redacted identification cards of women from Russia, Morocco, Italy, the Czech Republic, South Africa, Ukraine and Lithuania; and a late-night text thread about sending girls for someone identified as "j" for $1,000 each.
Representatives for Gates, Chomsky and Bannon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The release comes just a day before the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is required by law to release unclassified files from its investigation of the disgraced financier.
Renowned US intellectual Noam Chomsky (left) was among those depicted in the recently released trove of photographs. Source: AP / House Oversight Committee
Last week, oversight Democrats released 19 photos, including more images of Gates and Chomsky as well as some Trump, who dismissed the images as "no big deal".
Committee Democrats said the images released Thursday "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.
One of the undated redacted photos released by House Oversight Committee Democrats on 18 December. Source: AP / House 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 DOJ must release the Epstein files now."
White House spokesperson 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," she said in a statement.
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