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A cache of 95,000 photos found in the home of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein included several with people involved in sex acts.
A trove of 95,000 photos found in Jeffrey Epstein’s home shows “people engaged in sexual acts”, a US congressman said last night. Virginia Democrat Suhas Subramanyam said the haul of photos included a lot of different people and that the House Oversight Committee, of which he is a member, was going through them.
No captions or context have been provided for any of the images and the identities of some of the people in the photos have been obscured. Epstein famously kept a large collection of photos, many of which featured the high profile people he kept in his orbit.
However, inclusion in the collection is not an indication of guilt, knowledge or involvement in any of his crimes. Mr Subramanyam said that there were “a lot of people involved in some of these acts” and, when asked if there were men other than Epstein, added that the committee was “going through that”, reports the Mirror.
“The last time when there was a big production [of photos], what we tried to do was release all the files eventually,” he said. “We’re trying to be selective about what we release now. And so in this case, we’re not really quite sure yet who is who.”
US president Donald Trump appears in three of the photos released last night. He is seen with his shirt partially unbuttoned, posing with his arm around five unidentified women. The black and white photo appears to have been taken at a party or event, and all of the garland-wearing women’s faces were blacked out.
House Democrats did not say who the women were, when the photo was taken or why their identities had been obscured but newspapers in the US have claimed the women were promotional models for the Hawaiian Tropic brand of sun cream. Another photo in the newly released cache shows Trump on a private jet alongside a blonde-haired woman.
Her identity has also been obscured but the interior of the jet matches the Gulfstream G550 that was among the aircraft used by Epstein. Records also show that the US President was a passenger on multiple flights aboard jets owned by Epstein in the 1990s.
However, Trump claimed on his Truth Social website in January 2024: “I was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid’ Island.” The president was quizzed last night about the newly released images at an Oval Office ceremony to honour veteran ice Hockey players, which started two and a half hours later than scheduled. He said being in Epstein’s photos was “no big deal.”
“I haven’t seen them,” he said. “But I mean everybody knew this man. He was all over Palm Beach, he had photos with everybody. Almost, hundreds and hundreds of people are in photos with him. That’s no big deal. I know nothing about it.”
Virgin boss Richard Branson is in another photo with Epstein in a covered area on a sandy beach with palm trees in the background while Woody Allen is also pictured with Epstein on a film set. Microsoft founder Bill Gates poses on an airport tarmac in another photo next to what appears to be Epstein’s Gulfstream jet. He is standing next to Larry Visoski, a pilot who worked for Epstein from 1991 to 2019.
Steve Bannon – formerly Trump’s senior White House aide – is shown in another photo talking with Epstein across a large desk. Three framed photos appear on the desk, including one that appears to show a woman lying down. All the photos have blacked out faces.
Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, did not say whether any of the women in the photos was a victim of abuse, but he added: “Our commitment from day one has been to redact any photo, any information that could lead to any sort of harm to any of the victims.”
A spokesperson for the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee accused Garcia and Democratic lawmakers of “cherry-picking photos and making targeted redactions to create a false narrative about President Trump,” adding that nothing in the documents the committee has received shows “any wrongdoing” by the president.
Epstein was found dead in his cell at a federal jail in Manhattan, New York, in August 2019 while he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide.
Trump, once a close friend of Epstein, has said that he parted ways with him long before he faced the sex trafficking charges.
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