Epstein’s Estate Files: Democrats Release New Pics Featuring Bill Gates, Noam Chomsky, Others | World News

American Democrats released dozens of new photos from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, ahead of the full release of the Epstein Files on Friday. The new photos feature many people, including Bill Gates and Noam Chomsky. The US Justice Department is required by law to release declassified files from its investigation into the disgraced financier, Reuters reports. However, there is no illegal behavior in the latest photos.

68 of the images come from a larger collection of nearly 95,000 photographs provided to the House Oversight Committee by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. The newly disclosed materials include images of passports and identity documents issued by many countries, with much personal information hidden. Some of the documents are labeled “female”, including passports from countries such as Ukraine and Russia, and many faces are deliberately blurred to protect identities. Many images are also of maps/features.

NEW: Oversight Dems release additional photos to public from Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion.

We will continue to release photos and documents to provide transparency to the American people. It’s time for the Department of Justice to release the files. pic.twitter.com/ZGAvxVLCUq— Oversight Dems (@OversightDems) December 18, 2025

Additional photos show intellectual Noam Chomsky sitting with Epstein on what appears to be an airplane, and include images of Bill Gates standing next to a woman whose face is obscured.

The archive also includes photos of filmmaker Woody Allen and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon; both had been featured in a previous photo spread.

The most recently revealed include close-up photographs of passages from Lolita, a novel about an adult man’s passion for a 12-year-old girl, written in black ink on various parts of a woman’s body, including her chest, neck, back and feet. The statement also includes heavily issued ID cards for women from countries including Russia, Morocco, Italy, Czech Republic, South Africa, Ukraine and Lithuania, as well as a late-night text exchange discussing arranging girls for a person identified as “j” for a price of $1,000 per person.

Earlier this week, Democrats on the oversight committee made 19 photos public; among them was then-private citizen and now president Donald Trump. Trump dismissed the footage as unimportant. Committee Democrats said the photos released Thursday were chosen to more clearly show the public a cross-section of the material and shed light on Epstein’s connections and deeply troubling behavior.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said the new statements do not change the administration’s position. “President Trump has repeatedly pushed for full transparency regarding the Epstein records, and his administration has followed suit,” he said in a statement.