Bill Gates and Sergey Brin among newly released Epstein photos

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Democratic lawmakers have released dozens of new photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, as a deadline approaches for Donald Trump’s Justice Department to release its files on the late sex offender.

The new set of undated photos includes portraits of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and New York Times columnist David Brooks. Steve Bannon, who was once the president’s chief strategist, was also photographed with the disgraced financier, as were public intellectual Noam Chomsky and director Woody Allen.

The disclosures by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Thursday come less than a week after a previous set that included photos of Trump, former President Bill Clinton and Clinton’s former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers.

The latest images showed the vast scope of Epstein’s network of connections, which spanned politics, entertainment, technology and big business.

The photos published on Thursday featured Harvard professor Martin Novak, magician David Blaine, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, former YouTube CEO Salar Kamanjar, billionaire Thomas Pritzker, Slovak politician and former UN General Assembly president Miroslav Lajak.

Nowak, Laychak, Pritzker and Blaine could not immediately be reached. Kamanjar and Barak could not be reached for comment because their contact information was not publicly available.

There was no indication that the public figures who appeared in the photos published in the latest slide had committed any wrongdoing.

The images also included screenshots of text messages, images of pages from Epstein’s passport, and a series of close-up photographs of parts of an unidentified woman’s body, with lines from Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita Written on them. The novel details a professor’s sexual assault on a 12-year-old girl.

The new photos are likely to increase pressure on the administration to hand over its materials related to Epstein, who six years after his death remains a source of speculation and conspiracy theories.

Questions about Epstein’s ties to wealthy and powerful figures, including Trump, have ignited a political storm in recent months and led to major repercussions for prominent politicians and business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic.

Trump admitted that he and Epstein were once friends, but said they had fallen out more than two decades ago. He has vehemently denied any involvement in Epstein’s criminal activities.

But the president has faced persistent questions about his relationship with the disgraced financier, as well as the federal government’s handling of cases involving Epstein. Trump and top Republicans on Capitol Hill for months blocked the release of Justice Department files related to Epstein, before the president backed down last month and backed a bill requiring the release of the material.

House Democrats said they received 95,000 photos from Epstein’s estate as part of lawmakers’ investigation into the financier. Epstein was found dead in 2019 in his prison cell, where he was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.

The images released so far “were selected to provide the public with transparency into a representative sample of images received from the estate, and to provide insight into Epstein’s network and his deeply disturbing activities,” lawmakers said Thursday.

Robert Garcia, the committee’s top Democrat, said lawmakers would continue to release material from Epstein’s estate “to provide transparency to the American people.”

Thursday’s revelation came one day before US Attorney General Pam Bondi’s deadline to release federal government files related to Epstein, after Trump last month signed a bill requiring the material to be released to the public.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act gave the Justice Department 30 days to release its files related to Epstein, including evidence collected during multiple criminal and civil investigations into the disgraced financier and his associates.

The bill allowed the Justice Department to withhold files that could jeopardize active federal investigations or raise national security concerns — raising concerns among some lawmakers that any disclosures could be significantly redacted.

Brin, Brooks, Chomsky and Gates did not respond to requests for comment. Allen could not immediately be reached for comment.

Additional reporting by Chris Cook in London, Raif El-Din in San Francisco and Alexandra White in New York