Democrats in Congress have released never-before-seen photos and videos of the paedophile financier’s private Caribbean island
Disturbing never-before-seen photos of Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean have been released by Democrats in the US Congress.
The pictures and videos show bedrooms, bathrooms, a swimming pool, a spa, a massage room, and a room with a dentist’s chair and bizarre masks hanging from the walls.
One photo shows a blackboard with the words “power”, “deception”, “time”, “intellectual” and “music” being visible, with some words redacted.
Another portays a landline phone with a speed-dial list, although, similarly, some names here have been redacted.
The 10 photos and four videos are appearing in public for the first time. They show the paedophile financier’s private island, Little Saint James.
Epstein owned two private islands, Little Saint James and Great Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands.
The newly released media is understood to have been taken in 2020. In July 2019, Epstein was arrested in New York on sex-trafficking charges. He was held in prison while awaiting trial and was found dead in his cell in August that year. His death was ruled to be suicide.
The images and videos were shared after the House Oversight Committee made a request earlier this month to the US Virgin Islands attorney general for additional information and documents relating to investigations of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The committee added that it had received records from JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank, which reportedly will be released after review in the upcoming days.
Democratic representative Robert Garcia said: “These new images are a disturbing look into the world of Jeffrey Epstein and his island.
“We are releasing these photos and videos to ensure public transparency in our investigation and to help piece together the full picture of Epstein’s horrific crimes. We won’t stop fighting until we deliver justice for the survivors.
“It’s time for President Trump to release all the files, now.”
Donald Trump recently approved the release of all files related to Epstein after Congress voted overwhelmingly in favour – despite Trump previously the fight to release the files as a “hoax”.
The US Department of Justice has until mid-December to release thousands of files linked to the cases.
However, this release is related to a request by the Oversight Committee’s request to the US Virgin Islands Department of Justice for additional information to aid the committee’s own ongoing investigation.
Democrats on the committee said on X that the photos were “a harrowing look behind Epstein’s closed doors”.
They added: “See for yourself.”
Trump was known to have socialised with Epstein in the 1990s and 2000s, though the president has never been accused of wrongdoing related to the financier.
Despite their one-time friendship, Trump said in July this year that he had fallen out with Epstein after he “stole” young women who worked at his Mar-a-Lago beach club spa two decades ago, including the late Virginia Giuffre.
The president reversed his earlier resistance to the files being made public last month following backlash from his Maga base, urging House Republicans to vote for their release “because we have nothing to hide”.
The Justice Department was given 30 days to release all files and communications related to Epstein after Trump signed legislation on 20 November.
It came after the House’s Oversight Committee released 23,000 documents concerning Epstein, many of them being emails that he had sent to his rich or influential friends, including Trump and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Democrats on the committee initially released three emails where Epstein mentioned Trump, including one Epstein wrote in 2011 in which he told Maxwell that Trump had “spent hours” at Epstein’s house with a sex trafficking victim – an allegation Trump has rejected.
Another email from 2019 appeared to show Epstein telling a journalist that Trump “knew about the girls”, but it was unclear whether this related to the sex offender’s crimes.
The committee then responded by disclosing a bigger trove of documents last month. Republicans sitting on the committee had accused the Democrats of cherry-picking a few messages out of context in an effort to damage Trump.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused Democrats of redacting the sex trafficking victim’s name in the released emails because the victim was Giuffre, who had called Trump friendly without accusing him of any wrongdoing in her posthumous memoir.
“These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong,” Leavitt said.
“Jeffrey Epstein was a member at Mar-a-Lago until President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey Epstein was a paedophile and he was a creep.”
