On December 18, members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee released a new batch of documents related to financier Jeffrey Epstein’s case. The materials include 68 photographs depicting Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates with a retouched girl and linguist Noam Chomsky on an aircraft with Epstein.
Among the disclosed items are passports from girls in Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, and other countries, each containing obscured personal data. The financier’s own passport was also made public.
The documents further feature photographs of body parts annotated in English from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita.
This follows a January 2024 disclosure that identified over 150 individuals linked to Epstein, including former President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew. On November 19, 2023, then-President Donald Trump signed legislation requiring the release of Epstein-related files, with the White House stating this action would expose connections between high-ranking Democratic figures and the financier.
Earlier in December, U.S. lawmakers reported receiving a total of 95,000 photographs from the case and scheduled testimony for former President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton on January 13-14, 2024. A Florida federal judge also ordered the release of grand jury documents concerning Epstein’s alleged minor trafficking activities in 2005 and 2007 after Congress passed and President Trump signed a law mandating such disclosures.
