New batch of Epstein photos show young women scrawled with quotes from Lolita a book about a paedophilia

Sickening new photos from the Epstein files released by House Democrats overnight are some of the most disturbing yet, showing young women whose bodies have been scrawled with handwritten quotes from a book that celebrates paedophilia.

Among the trove of 68 images from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s estate were also photos featuring rich and powerful men, including Hollywood director Woody Allen, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, political theorist Noam Chomsky and Trump ally Steve Bannon.

The photos are among 95,000 that the House Oversight Committee has received after issuing a subpoena for the photos that Epstein had in his possession before he died aged 66 in a New York jail cell in 2019.

The photo dump comes a day before a deadline for the Justice Department to release its case files on Epstein and his long-time girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.

Anticipation about what those files will show is running high after they have been the subject of conspiracy theories and speculation about his friendships with US President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, the former Prince Andrew, and others.

A series of five photos in the latest release on Thursday show quotes from Vladimir Nabokov’s notorious book, Lolita, about a middle-aged professor and his sexual obsession with a 12-year-old girl, scribbled on female body parts.

Written on an unidentified woman’s cleavage are the words “Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.”

And, down the curve of an unidentified woman’s spine is scrawled “She was Dolores on the dotted line”.

Another, written on the instep of a woman’s foot reads, “She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock”.

On a woman’s hip, “She was Lola in slacks” and on a woman’s neck “She was Dolly at school”.

Another photo shows Epstein surrounded by three women. Others show Epstein cooking with Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, an Emirati businessman, magician David Blaine and Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

A screenshot of a text message suggests a chilling commercial exchange from an unknown person referring to a contact who “asks 1000$ [sic] per girl” and then continuing “Maybe someone will be good for J?”

“I will send u girls now.”

It then details what appears to be information about an unidentified 18-year-old Russian woman, including height, measurements and weight.

The committee has made no accusations of wrongdoing by the men in the photos.

Mr Trump, who featured in the last batch of photos released on December 12 local time, is not included in the latest release.

In the previous batch he was shown standing in the middle of a row of six women, whose faces were blacked out. He was also shown in another photo standing behind Epstein at what appears to be a social event.

A third photo showed Mr Trump sitting next to a woman, whose face is blacked out, on what appears to be a plane.

— with AP