21st December 2025 – (Washington) Democrats on the U.S. House Oversight Committee have released a further tranche of material from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, unveiling around 70 photographs sourced from the financier’s computers and email accounts on the eve of a Department of Justice deadline to disclose its files. The images, which form part of an archive of some 95,000 items recently provided by the estate without contextual notes, offer additional insight into Epstein’s social milieu and private life.
Among the pictures is a shot of former Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates standing beside a woman whose face has been redacted, and a separate image of linguist and commentator Noam Chomsky seated with Epstein aboard a plane. Other photographs capture a dinner gathering that appears to include high‑profile figures; one image from the same room seems to show Google co‑founder Sergey Brin alongside New York Times columnist David Brooks. The New York Times said Brooks attended a widely subscribed 2011 event in a journalistic capacity and had no other contact with Epstein. Several images feature Epstein with women whose faces are obscured, including one showing three women clustered around him by an open laptop, and another of Epstein on an aircraft gesturing out of a window next to a woman whose identity is concealed. Close‑ups of a foot and a neck bearing Lolita quotations written in black ink appear in the cache, as do scans of identity documents from multiple countries, a hand holding Epstein’s passport, a picture of a phenazopyridine prescription bottle, and screenshots of text messages referencing “I will send u girls now” and “Maybe someone would be good for J?”, the latter including age and body measurements.
The publication coincided with a legally mandated deadline for the Justice Department to release its Epstein records. Representative Robert Garcia, the committee’s Democratic ranking member, said his colleagues would continue to publish photographs and documents received from the estate “to provide transparency”, adding that the new materials raised further questions about what the DOJ holds and urging the department to release its files in full.
A larger release followed on Friday after President Donald Trump, under mounting pressure from Republicans to fulfil a pledge of disclosure, authorised publication of federal investigative files. While many documents were heavily redacted, footage included in the batch raised immediate privacy concerns: videos apparently recorded by officers during walk‑throughs of Epstein’s Florida residence showed unblurred images of young women displayed on interior walls, including at least one nude subject and others topless. In a bathroom sequence, the camera zooms in on artwork and framed photographs, including a picture of a very young girl in a swimming pool; elsewhere, a dining‑room image shows Epstein at a table with three women behind him, one with her hands at his throat, none of whom are obscured in the video despite redactions applied to scanned stills of the same pictures in other files. It is unclear whether the women depicted are victims, but the lack of blurring has prompted questions about whether the DOJ adequately protected identities as required by law.
The document set also contains numerous photographs of former president Bill Clinton, including an image of him in a hot tub with a censored companion, which the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, highlighted on social media. Clinton’s spokesman, Angel Ureña, sought to distance his client from Epstein, arguing that the disclosures are not about the former president and asserting that Clinton belongs among those who “knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light”, as opposed to individuals who continued their relationships thereafter. Andrew Mountbatten‑Windsor features in earlier files, including a photograph of him in black tie sprawled across the laps of five women.
Despite the deadline, only a fraction of the government’s Epstein records have been made public, with Garcia noting that roughly half of Friday’s materials were previously released and the remainder “highly redacted”. The delay is likely to energise claims of a cover‑up surrounding Epstein’s connections. Trump, who was friendly with Epstein from the late 1980s until 2004 and has denied wrongdoing, had resisted a comprehensive release before agreeing to the partial publication. Victims expressed frustration at the piecemeal disclosures. Marina Lacerda, who alleges Epstein abused her from the age of 14, urged the administration to “just put out the files” and stop unnecessary redactions. The Department of Justice has been approached for comment.
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