Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Friday released never-before-seen images from the estate of late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including some featuring powerbrokers like Bill Gates and Larry Summers.
The photos — which also feature President Donald Trump, ex-Trump advisor Steve Bannon, former President Bill Clinton, writer-director Woody Allen, Richard Branson, and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew — are a selection of the over 95,000 photos that the Democrats say were provided to the House Oversight Committee pursuant to a subpoena.
Some of the photos also include Ghislaine Maxwell, a onetime partner of Epstein who was convicted of trafficking girls to him for sex. She’s currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.
The committee previously released other records obtained from Epstein’s estate, including images of his US Virgin Islands home and tens of thousands of emails and text messages between Epstein and other powerful people.
The images themselves aren’t indications of wrongdoing.
In many cases, it isn’t clear when the photos were taken. Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution and agreed to register as a pedophile. In 2019, he killed himself in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial on more severe sex-trafficking charges from federal prosecutors.
The House Oversight Committee’s ranking member, Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of California, said in a statement: “These disturbing photos raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world.”
Representatives for Gates, Summers, Bannon, Clinton, Allen, Branson, and Mountbatten-Windsor did not immediately respond to requests for comment by Business Insider.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Business Insider in a statement that House Democrats are once again “selectively releasing cherry-picked photos with random redactions to try and create a false narrative.”
The latest release of images comes as the Department of Justice readies to release a trove of Epstein-related documents. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by Trump, requires the Justice Department to make its files related to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell public by December 19.
“The Trump Administration has done more for Epstein’s victims than Democrats ever have by repeatedly calling for transparency, releasing thousands of pages of documents, and calling for further investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends,” Jackson said.
Below are some of the 19 images that Democrats on the House Oversight Committee published on Friday:
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