Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have released new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's archives. The convicted financier and sex offender has become a political bogeyman in the United States, and the release of the contents of court-ordered seizures has sparked numerous clashes between Donald Trump, his supporters, and the Democratic Party. Just last week, the committee's Democrats released a set of photos from an archive containing more than 95,000 images.

This archive contains many innocuous photos of powerful men, including Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, David Brooks, columnist for the New York Times, filmmaker Woody Allen, academic Noam Chomsky, and Steve Bannon.

The commission's statement does not specify where and when the photos were taken. However, several of them appear to have been taken at the "Billionaires' Dinner" organized in 2011 by the online magazine Edge.org. This event brought together several leading figures in the tech world as well as wealthy individuals. The magazine declined to comment.

A spokesperson for The New York Times told us that David Brooks "regularly attends events to speak with leading business executives to inform and support his articles," also stating that he had no contact with Jeffrey Epstein before or after the 2011 dinner at which the photo was taken.

A representative from the Gates Foundation has not yet responded to our request for comment, nor have representatives from Google, Woody Allen, Noam Chomsky and Steve Bannon's podcast, War Room.

But, more disturbingly, among the flood of photos that have surfaced are also close-ups of women's body parts on which quotations from Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita have been handwritten. There is also a photo of a pill bottle labeled with a medication commonly used to relieve the symptoms of urinary tract infections, as well as declassified images of travel documents from several countries, including Ukraine and Lithuania.

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Woody Allen (center) alongside Jeffrey Epstein.

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Medication for urinary tract infections

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Steve Bannon (left) talks with Jeffrey Epstein (right).

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Epstein surrounded by three women.

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A quote from Lolita written on what appears to be a woman's body.

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Noam Chomsky (left) and Jeffrey Epstein (right).

As part of the investigation, the committee subpoenaed Epstein's estate, requesting two separate sets of documents: one for the committee's Democrats and the other for the Republicans. As the committee received the documents from the estate, the Democrats and the committee as a whole issued their own statements. These documents raised new questions about the well-documented relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and then-President Donald Trump; they revealed, in particular, that Epstein boasted of knowing Trump's views during conversations with an advisor to Bill Gates.

The release of documents related to the Epstein investigations cast a shadow over the first year of Trump's second term. After making the revelation of the "Epstein dossier" a campaign promise, seeking to stir up his conspiracy-minded base convinced of the existence of clandestine and pedophile networks within the federal government, the Trump administration completely reversed course after the election. Perhaps because it became very clear that Donald Trump, whose past friendship with Epstein was known, was cited several times in the classified documents. The release of the dossier led to a clash between Democrats and Republicans that played out in reverse: House Republicans resisted fiercely while Democrats, initially suspected of collusion with Epstein, demanded the declassification of the dossier.

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“As we approach the deadline for passing the Epstein transparency bill, the release of these previously unseen images raises further questions about exactly what the Justice Department has in its possession,” said Representative Robert Garcia, a Democratic member of the committee. “We must end the White House cover-up, and the Justice Department must release the Epstein files now.”