Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released 14 photos and videos of Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands, showing empty courtyards, a bedroom and other rooms from his villa.
Congress is pressing the Trump administration to release all of its case files on the sex trafficking investigation into the disgraced late financier.
Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the oversight panel, said he was releasing the images “to ensure public transparency in our investigation and to help piece together the full picture of Epstein’s horrific crimes.”
The visuals from the luxury estate on Little St James Island provide a glimpse of the opulent residence where Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly trafficked girls for sex with his friends and guests.
The Department of Justice has until mid-December to comply with legislation passed by Congress and signed by US President Donald Trump to publicly release many of its documents on Epstein.
Among the images are bedrooms and bathrooms inside the main residence, as well as a room containing a dentist’s chair and masks hanging on the wall.
One picture shows a blackboard in a large study with words including “power” and “deception” written on it, as well as several other words that are redacted.
Another depicts a room with a dentist’s chair, with masks of men’s faces hanging on the wall.
Garcia said the Committee also received documents from J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank related to Epstein, which Democrats intend to make public after review.
“We will continue to release documents and files as we receive them,” he wrote in a post on X, calling on the Justice Department to release all its files on its investigation into Epstein.
Epstein died in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.
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