House Oversight Committee Democrats dumped a file of photos from the estate of the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein Friday. Several famous faces are featured in the photos, including U.S. presidents and filmmaker Woody Allen.
President Donald Trump himself was was featured in three of the photos, including one where he was standing next to Epstein. According to ABC News, that shot appears to be from a 1997 Victoria’s Secret event in New York.
“Other photos from that party have been public for years,” said the outlet.
Epstein died in 2019 while in his jail cell after being charged with sex trafficking of minors. His relationships with many wealthy and famous people, including Trump and some of the others pictured in the photo dump: Allen (who has faced sex abuse allegations), former President Bill Clinton, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew) and his surprise death have contributed to conspiracies swirling around Epstein for years.
This year, demands from the public for more information about Epstein to be released have caused some tension within Trump’s MAGA base. Attorney General Pam Bondi and others in the administration have also faced backlash for indicating no further information about the case would be released.
Trump even made headlines for telling a reporter “quiet piggy,” when asked about the controversy around the Epstein files last month. Congress also voted to release all of the files related to Epstein in November. However, Axios noted that Trump’s “directive of DOJ to investigate Epstein’s ties to former President Bill Clinton, officials at JP Morgan Chase and others may cause the files to never see the light of day.”
“It is time to end this White House cover-up and bring justice to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful friends,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) “These disturbing photos raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world. We will not rest until the American people get the truth. The Department of Justice must release all the files, NOW.”
Trump appears to be on a plane in another photo included in the dump, with a woman whose face was covered with a black box and in a group shot with women whose faces were also covered with black boxes. In an X post, Oversight Committee Republicans said: “Why did @OversightDems censor the faces of adult women models who called Trump ‘very gentlemanly’ when the Epstein Estate released them uncensored?”
Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr. also posted on X: “Democrats released photos of adult women who said he was ‘gentlemanly’ but blocked out their faces to make it seem like my father was hanging out with minors,” regarding those shots.
There are also other photos of Trump-themed items in the photo dump, including Trump-themed condoms and a “Trumpkin.” Overall, Garcia said that 95,000 photos were included in the “latest production” from the Epstein estate.
Another famous face seen in the photos is that of Steve Bannon. He’s a current podcaster and former executive chairman of Breitbart News who served as the executive director of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and as chief White House strategist during the president’s first term. Bannon appears in multiple photos released in the dump.
When asked about the photos Friday in the Oval Office, Trump said: “Everybody knew this man, he was all over Palm Beach, he has photos with everybody.” Previously, Trump did admit to knowing Epstein but has said they stopped speaking in the early 2000s. A previous release by the House Committee appeared to show a message from Trump in a 2003 “birthday book” made for Epstein by his associate Ghislaine Maxwell (now serving a 20-year-sentence for aiding Epstein in sex trafficking) but Trump has denied it actually came from him.
He added Friday that there are “hundreds and hundreds of people who have photos with him, so that’s no big deal.”