First, there were 10 previously unseen photographs and four videos. Hours later, another 200 files were released. The two shipments consisted of interior and exterior shots of a property on Little St. James, one of the two private islands owned in the Caribbean by the millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. They were released this Wednesday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee as Washington anxiously awaits the legally mandated release of the Epstein Papers by the Department of Justice.
There, in a sinister corner of the Virgin Islands known to locals as “Pedophile Island,” he committed dozens, perhaps hundreds, of the crimes for which he was to be tried when he died in 2019 in a maximum-security cell in what the coroner determined to be a suicide, while awaiting trial as the leader of a child sex trafficking ring.
In the first batch released this Wednesday, there were images taken in 2020 of the mansion’s garden and a “No Trespassing” sign, snapshots of two different bedrooms, a bathroom, another in a space used as a storage room, and a living room-library decorated with dubious taste, as well as two close-ups: of a telephone, on which the names of the speed dial keys have been crossed out, and of a whiteboard with enigmatic words written on it (“power,” “deception,” “plants”).
Perhaps the most unsettling photo is of a sort of dentist’s operating room with several masks of men’s faces hanging on the walls. It may have been used, according to The New York Times, by Epstein’s last girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, who was a dentist. Many of the images in the second batch could be used to advertise the property on a real estate platform for sale or rent.
There are photos of other rooms in the house and of statues scattered throughout, as well as paintings and photos of photos in which, for example, Epstein is seen with Ghislaine Maxwell, his fixer and accomplice, at a reception with Pope John Paul II.
