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- New images released by House Oversight Committee Democrats on Thursday show Jeffrey Epstein mingling with more powerful men, including linguist Noam Chomsky and Google co-founder Sergey Brin
- The new batch of photos includes additional images of Epstein with Bill Gates, Woody Allen and Steve Bannon, who were all included in the previous photo drop earlier this month
- The 68 new photos also include images of women with quotes from Lolita written on their skin, as well as text messages appearing to show Epstein scouting girls
New photos from the Jeffrey Epstein files released Thursday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee shows a string of text messages appearing to show the late convicted sex trafficker scouting teenage girls.
“I have a friend scout she sent me some girls today,” one text message reads.
“But she asks 1000$ per girl,” a follow-up text says.
“I will send u girls now,” another message says.
“Maybe someone will be good for J?” another text reads before another message describes an 18-year-old girl whose “departure city” is listed as Russia.
Thursday’s photo drop from includes 68 total images, including redacted images of passports from Morocco, Russia, Italy, Czech Republic, South Africa, Ukraine and Lithuania. There’s also a photo of a map of Great St. James in the U.S. Virgin Islands, an island owned by Epstein.
Other photos included in Thursday’s release show the bodies of women scrawled with quotes from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel Lolita — about a man sexually obsessed with a 12-year-old girl — on their legs and feet.
Additional images show Epstein, who died in prison in August 2019, alongside the likes of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, filmmaker Woody Allen, linguist Noam Chomsky, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and conservative political strategist Steve Bannon. Two of the photos show Gates, 70, posing with women who have their faces redacted.
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The Oversight Committee began releasing photographs from the Epstein’s estate in early December and vowed to continue releasing additional images as they pore through nearly 100,000 documents.
The newly obtained files are not related to the ones that Congress ordered the Department of Justice to unseal by Friday, Dec. 19, which will focus specifically on the evidence that the federal government obtained during its criminal investigations into Epstein.
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Previously released images earlier this month showed President Donald Trump posing with six unidentified women. The released files also included images of former President Bill Clinton, as well as ex-Prince Andrew.
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The previous release also included additional photos of Gates, Allen and Bannon, PEOPLE previously reported.
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“It is time to end this White House cover-up and bring justice to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful friends,” California Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement while releasing the first batch of images earlier this month.
“These disturbing photos raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world,” Garcia said. “We will not rest until the American people get the truth. The Department of Justice must release all the files, NOW.”
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