New Epstein Photo Release Spotlights High-Profile Contacts as Congress Nears Deadline to Publish Long-Awaited Files

The documents also contained redacted passport images from multiple countries, including Epstein’s own.

Many of the photographs show Epstein pictured with women, though their identities have been obscured.

In some images, the women appear with handwritten messages on their bodies.

The phrases shown were taken from Lolita, the controversial 1955 novel centered on a man’s sexual obsession with a 12-year-old girl.

The Oversight Committee’s decision to publish this material came one day before Donald Trump’s administration is expected to release additional Epstein-related files.

Among the recognizable individuals appearing in the photographs are:

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder

Noam Chomsky, linguist and public intellectual

Steve Bannon, former adviser to Donald Trump

Sergey Brin, Google co-founder

David Brooks, New York Times columnist

David Blaine, illusionist

Salar Kamangar, former YouTube CEO

Do not suggest criminal activity

Committee members stressed that being shown in photographs does not, by itself, imply criminal wrongdoing.

A spokesperson for Bill Gates has repeatedly said Epstein never worked for him, and Gates has previously stated that he regrets any association with Epstein. Speaking to CNN in 2021, Gates said: “It was a huge mistake to spend time with him, to give him the credibility of being there.”

Representative Robert Garcia, a Democrat on the Oversight Committee, said the group plans to continue releasing Epstein-related materials in the name of public transparency.

Garcia said:

“Oversight Democrats will continue to release photographs and documents from the Epstein estate to provide transparency for the American people.

“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.”

Garcia said the 68 photos released this week—along with 19 published earlier—represent only a small portion of what has not yet been made public.

He added that the archive includes more than 95,000 photos, including images of wealthy and powerful men who spent time with Jeffrey Epstein, as well as thousands of photographs of women and Epstein properties.

Epstein previously pleaded guilty to a Florida state felony prostitution charge in 2008, serving 13 months in jail. In 2019, he faced federal charges related to trafficking minors, charges to which he pleaded not guilty. He was later found dead in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial.

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