Members of Congress have published more photographs and documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, including text messages, passports and several images that appear to show handwriting on a woman’s body.
The writing appears to quote Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, a copy of which can be seen in one of the photographs.
One message written on a person’s foot reads “she was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock.”
Another says “she was Lola in slacks” and another reads “she was Polly at school.”
The latest tranche of 68 documents from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee comes as the Department of Justice faces a Friday deadline to publicly release all investigative files in its possession after a pressure campaign urging President Donald Trump to release of the so-called “Epstein files.”
Another image appears to be a screenshot of a text message thread telling the recipient that “I have a friend scout she sent me some girls today” and “she asks 1000$ per girl.”
“I will send u girls now,” the sender wrote, according to the message shared to the committee. “Maybe someone will be good for J?”
A redacted message then appears to list the height, measurements and other details of an 18-year-old girl from Russia.
A photograph of a Russian woman’s passport also is included in the latest batch of documents from the committee.
There also are photographs of passports and other identifying documents for women from the Czech Republic, South Africa and Lithuania, as well as three women from Ukraine.
Several images depict Epstein accompanied by unidentified young women whose faces have been blocked out, including a photograph showing a seated Epstein seated with one woman with her arms around his shoulders and two others sitting closely beside him.
Other images depict Epstein in social settings, including alongside author Noam Chomsky, New York Times opinion columnist David Brooks, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and far-right media personality Steve Bannon, among others.
Over the last several months, Democrats on the committee have released several batches of previously unpublished images and documents from Epstein’s estate as members of Congress lead their own investigation into the convicted sex offender and his alleged ties to a wider network of powerful figures.
Epstein was accused of sexually abusing young women and girls before he was found dead in his jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trail on trafficking charges in 2019, and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year-prison sentence for crimes associated with Epstein’s alleged abuse.
The government is preparing to release potentially tens of thousands of pages of documents, including FBI notes throughout the investigations, transcripts of witness interviews, videos and photographs, and Epstein’s autopsy report, among other documents.
Questions about the fate of those documents have dominated the president’s second term after he pledged during his campaign to release them.
In July, the Justice Department determined “no further disclosure” in the Epstein case “would be appropriate or warranted,” which only fueled scrutiny into the president’s relationship with Epstein
Last month, after a mounting pressure campaign among members of Congress, including his one-time Republican allies, Trump reluctantly agreed to sign a measure that compels the Justice Department to release all materials from Epstein case’s in its possession.
This is a developing story
