Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Friday released a second batch of images from the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s estate.
The images include pictures of Epstein with a number of high-profile figures, including President Donald Trump, longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon, former President Bill Clinton, former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, businessman Bill Gates and movie director Woody Allen. They do not appear to show illegal activity by these individuals.
They appeared among 19 photos out of a production that contains more than 95,000 photos.
“It is time to end this White House cover-up and bring justice to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful friends,” the committee’s ranking member, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., said. “These disturbing photos raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world. We will not rest until the American people get the truth. The Department of Justice must release all the files, NOW.”
Several of the images that House Democrats provided to the media had their faces blocked out. It is unclear who made the redactions and when and why they did so.
The images of Trump include one featuring a younger Trump posing for a photo with two women on one side and three women on his other side wearing what look to be artificial Hawaiian leis. The faces of the women are redacted. Another photo shows a young Trump standing next to Epstein at an event speaking to a blonde woman, and another shows Trump with a blond woman whose face is redacted.
Clinton appears in another photo posing with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s girlfriend and co-conspirator, who stand to his left. It appears to be signed by Clinton.
A few photos feature Bannon, including one in which Epstein is sitting behind a desk with Bannon sitting on the opposite side and another of the two of them standing together taking a selfie through a mirror.
Another image shows Allen sitting on a director’s chair speaking to Epstein who’s standing next to him. One also shows Allen and Bannon speaking to each other.
Summers appears on a private plane in another of the photos.
Two photos also feature Gates, including one showing him standing with the former Prince Andrew, who was recently stripped of his title because of his relationship with Epstein, and another showing Gates posing outside a small plane with a member of the flight crew.
Another photo shows Epstein speaking with prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz.
It’s unclear when all of these pictures were taken.
NBC News has reached out to the White House, Clinton, Allen, Bannon, Gates and Summers.
Trump, for his part, has distanced himself in recent months from the friendship he had with Epstein. In July, the president denied writing a letter to Epstein for a birthday album more than two decades ago that included an outline of a naked woman and a “Donald” signature.
“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,” Trump told The Wall Street Journal, which first reported its existence. “It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
Clinton’s spokesman Angel Ureña said in a statement in 2019, “President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York.”
Democrats on the panel had released more than 150 photos and videos of Epstein’s island earlier this month that also were received from his estate. The initial collection showed the outdoor pool area, several bedrooms, bathrooms, a room with a dental chair, and a library with a large desk and a blackboard with the words “power,” “truth,” “music,” “deception,” “intellectual” and “political” written on it, along with some redacted words.
Epstein owned two private islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands — Little Saint James and Great Saint James — where he was accused of sexually abusing girls and young women. He bought Little Saint James in 1998 for $7.95 million and purchased Great Saint James in 2016.
The latest release, which also contained redactions from the Oversight Committee, comes as the 30-day deadline approaches next week for the Justice Department to turn over to Congress the massive amount of files the federal government has on Epstein. On Nov. 19, Trump signed legislation passed by the House and Senate that requires DOJ to release the records.
Meanwhile, a federal judge in New York on Wednesday granted the DOJ’s request to unseal grand jury records in Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case. A different judge on Tuesday ordered the release of grand jury records related to Maxwell.
A federal judge in Florida last week also ordered the release of grand jury investigations into Epstein in 2005 and 2007.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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