The photos arrive weeks after the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released new emails from Epstein, including ones that mentioned President Trump.
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released 14 photos and videos of Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday.
The photos showed empty courtyards, a bedroom and other rooms from his villa on Little Saint James. The Democrats described the photos and videos as “never-before-seen” and said they offered a “harrowing look behind Epstein’s closed doors.”
Congress is pressing the Trump administration to release all of its case files on the sex trafficking investigation into the late financier.
Rep. 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 Department of Justice has until mid-December to comply with legislation passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump to publicly release many of its documents on Epstein. The law allows for redactions about Epstein’s victims for ongoing federal investigations, but DOJ cannot withhold information due to “embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity.”
“We will continue to release documents and files as we receive them. The survivors deserve justice and the truth. We need the Department of Justice to release all the files, NOW,” Rep. Robert Garcia said on X.
Some of the photos showed a room with a dentist’s chair and masks around the walls. Another photo showed a phone with speed-dial listings, including numbers for people named Darren, Mike, Larry and Rich, among other redacted names.
The photos also arrive weeks after the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released new emails from Epstein, including ones that mentioned President Trump. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said the emails, which they selected from thousands of pages of documents received by their panel from Epstein’s estate, raised new questions about the relationship between the two men.
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