Jeffrey Epstein decorated his Palm Beach lair with images of him with powerful people and naked women, including Ghislaine Maxwell, resurfaced videos show.
Police footage released on Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee gave a look inside the late pedophile’s Florida mansion in 2005, when police investigated the financier for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl.
Epstein kept framed photographs of women, many of them naked, all over the home, including in the bathrooms, hallways, offices and gym.
The pedophile showed off over a dozen images of his ex-girlfriend Maxwell in the home, with one showing her naked on a beach.
Other framed photographs around the now-demolished home showed the former couple posing with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and meeting Pope John Paul II.
Epstein purchased the secluded Florida villa in 1990 for $2.5million and made it the center for a vile grooming empire targeting girls as young as 14.
He died in August 2019 before he could be brought to trial, but his sick accomplice Maxwell was imprisoned for luring victims to the gated compound for sordid ‘massage’ sessions.
The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday publicly posted the files it has received from the Justice Department on the sex trafficking investigations into Epstein and his former girlfriend Maxwell.
It was in response to mounting pressure in Congress to force more disclosure in the case.
Among the newly-released documents was a minute of footage from the Metropolitan Detention Center that was missing from 11-hours of surveillance footage the Department of Justice released in July.
The ‘missing minute’ was blamed on the Bureau of Prison’s surveillance system, with AG Bondi claiming that ‘every night they redo that video… every night should have the same minute missing.’
Yet the House of Representatives Oversight Committee has now included the minute in two hours of additional footage it released on Tuesday amid a probe into potential ethics violations among elected officials.
Still, the files mostly contain information that was already publicly known or available.
The folders — posted on Google Drive — contained hundreds of image files of years-old court filings related to Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 as he faced charges for sexually abusing teenage girls, and Maxwell, who is serving a lengthy prison sentence for assisting him.
The committee released thousands of pages and videos via the cumbersome Google Drive, leaving it to readers and viewers to decipher new and interesting tidbits on their own.
The files released Tuesday included audio of an Epstein employee describing to a law enforcement official how ‘there were a lot of girls that were very, very young’ visiting the home but couldn’t say for sure if they were minors.
Over the course of Epstein’s visits to the home, the man said, more than a dozen girls might visit, and he was charged with cleaning the room where Epstein had massages, twice daily.
Some pages were almost entirely redacted. Other documents related to Epstein’s Florida prosecution that led to a plea deal that has long been criticized as too lenient, including emails between the defense and prosecutors over the conditions of his probation after his conviction.
Barbara Burns, a Palm Beach County prosecutor, expressed frustration as the defense pushed for fewer restrictions on their client: ‘I don’t know how to convey to him anymore than I already have that his client is a registered sex offender that was fortunate to get the deal of the century.’
Some of the interviews with officers from the Palm Beach Police Department date to 2005, according to timestamps read out by officials at the beginning of the files.
Most, if not all, of the text documents posted Tuesday had already been public. Notably, the probable cause affidavit and other records from the 2005 investigation into Epstein contained a notation indicating that they’d been previously released in a 2017 public records request.
An internet search showed those files were posted to the website of the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office in July 2017.
The committee’s release of the files showed how lawmakers are eager to act on the issue as they return to Washington after a monthlong break.
They quickly revived a political clash that has flummoxed House Republican leadership and roiled President Donald Trump’s administration.
House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to quell an effort by Democrats and some Republicans to force a vote on a bill that would require the Justice Department to release all the information in the so-called Epstein files, with the exception of the victims’ personal information.
Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, chided Republicans on the panel for releasing material that he said consisted almost entirely of already available information.
‘The 33,000 pages of Epstein documents James Comer has decided to “release” were already mostly public information. To the American people — don’t let this fool you,’ Garcia said in a statement.