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House oversight committee releases new photos from Jeffrey Epstein estate
The House oversight committee has released a new trove of pictures from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate.
Among the release are closeup photos of words written across various parts of a woman’s body - including a foot with the novel Lolita in the background.
“She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock,” said the words written on the foot.
Another photo featured words that appeared to be written down someone’s back. “She was Dolores on the dotted line,” the words said.
Another photo showed what appeared to be a woman’s neck with the words “She was Dolly at school”.
Update: we corrected this post. An earlier version said Polly, instead of Dolly.
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The latest release also includes multiple redacted photos of passports and identity documents of women from various countries including Ukraine, Morocco, Italy and South Africa.
The release also included a screenshot from an unknown sender that said:
I have a friend scout she sent me some girls today. But she asks 1000$ per girl. I will send you girls now. Maybe someone will be good for J?
The sender went on to include details of the apparent girl, with information including name, age, height, measurements, weight, departure city and whether she has a Schengen visa.
Other pictures include Epstein being surrounded by multiple women in different settings including on a plane and in front of a laptop.
In one of the photos, Epstein appears to be putting on what looks either like a black watch or band around a woman’s wrist while another woman is crouched in front of him. A third woman is standing next to Epstein with hand on his shoulder and another in his shirt.
Steve Bannon also features in this latest drop, pictured speaking to Epstein sitting opposite him at a desk. In the previous round of images released by the committee, Bannon and Epstein were pictured sitting around the desk from a different angle. In both pictures, a framed photograph of a woman (with her face redacted) lying down is visible on the desk. Another photograph from the last drop depicted Bannon and Epstein taking a picture together in a mirror.
New York Times columnist David Brooks is also featured in the latest release of photos from the Jeffrey Epstein files.
The release comes as Brooks notably wrote an op-ed last month titled: “The Epstein story? Count me out.”
In the op-ed, Brooks links the public scrutiny towards the Epstein files with “the QAnon mentality [that] has taken over America”.
He went on to say Democrats were “hopping on this bandwagon” of conspiracy thinking, adding: “They may believe that the Epstein file release will somehow hurt Trump. But they are undermining public trust and sowing public cynicism in ways that make the entire progressive project impossible.”
In a statement from the New York Times on Thursday, the outlet said: “As a journalist, David Brooks regularly attends events to speak with noted and important business leaders to inform his columns, which is exactly what happened at this 2011 event. Mr. Brooks had no contact with him before or after this single attendance at a widely-attended dinner.”
Top Democrat urges justice department to 'release the Epstein files now'
In a statement accompanying the latest release, Robert Garcia, House oversight committee ranking member, 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.”
According to the House oversight committee, the Epstein estate “did not provide context for any of the 95,000 images they transmitted and therefore the images are presented as received”.
The committee also said that it still had in its possession “thousands of images, both graphic and mundane”.
“Oversight Democrats redact images and personally identifiable information from victims and survivors, and of young women when it is unknown whether they are a victim of Epstein’s abuse,” the committee added.
Other photos include Jeffrey Epstein on a private plane, chatting with Noam Chomsky, as well as Bill Gates posing with various women.
House oversight committee releases new photos from Jeffrey Epstein estate
The House oversight committee has released a new trove of pictures from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate.
Among the release are closeup photos of words written across various parts of a woman’s body - including a foot with the novel Lolita in the background.
“She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock,” said the words written on the foot.
Another photo featured words that appeared to be written down someone’s back. “She was Dolores on the dotted line,” the words said.
Another photo showed what appeared to be a woman’s neck with the words “She was Dolly at school”.
Update: we corrected this post. An earlier version said Polly, instead of Dolly.
If you’re just joining us, Trump’s health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has proposed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for children across the United States in federal programs, threatening to cut federal funding from any hospitals offering those treatments.
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He proposed that Medicaid and children’s health programs would be prohibited for paying for such treatments, and hospitals providing the treatments would be considered in violation of the conditions for receipt of all Medicaid and Medicare funding.
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He also said the FDA has issued warning letters to 12 manufacturers of breast binders for what Kennedy called “illegal marketing” of the products to children as a treatment for gender dysphoria.
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Kennedy also announced that HHS is moving to reverse the inclusion of gender dysphoria within the definition of a disability.
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He said gender-affirming care (or “sex-rejecting procedures) was “not medicine, it is malpractice”, and claimed it was “neither safe nor effective” treatment for children.
RFK Jr announces moves to cut off gender-affirming care for children
To sum up, Kennedy has just announced proposals to cut access to gender-affirming care for children. The rules he’s put forward would prohibit hospitals that deliver such care from Medicare and Medicaid programs and also prohibit Medicaid and children’s health programs from funding it.
HHS is also moving to reverse the inclusion of gender dysphoria within the definition of a disability, he says.
The FDA is also issuing warning letters to 12 manufacturers of breast binders that “the illegal marketing of breast binders to children for the purpose of treating gender dysphoria commits significant regulatory violations and requires swift corrective action”, Kennedy says.
If they don’t comply they could face enforcement actions including product seizures, he adds.
The second rule prohibits federal Medicaid dollars from funding those procedures on minors.
