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DOJ Races to Redact Documents Ahead of Deadline to Release Epstein Files

HeadlineDec 19, 2025

House Democrats have released more photos from the estate of the convicted serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein ahead of today’s congressionally mandated deadline for the Justice Department to release the Epstein files. The uncaptioned photos show Epstein with film director Woody Allen, Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon, New York Times opinion columnist David Brooks, MIT linguist and activist Noam Chomsky and billionaire tech mogul Bill Gates. Some of the photographs show what appear to be lines from Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” — a novel about a pedophile — written on parts of a woman’s body. Ahead of today’s deadline, CNN reported the Justice Department was racing to redact thousands of pages in the Epstein files.

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