A protester holds up a photo of the future President Donald Trump with financier Jeffrey Epstein at a rally in Augusta, Georgia, on Aug. 2, 2025. Epstein, a convicted sex offender, died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting a federal sex trafficking trial.
House Democrats on the Oversight Committee released photos on Dec. 12, 2025, from Jeffrey Epstein’s email that show Epstein with Woody Allen in this undated photograph.

WASHINGTON – House Democrats received a trove of 95,000 pictures from accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s estate and released 19 images that show Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton and other high-profile figures.

The photo release is the latest push by Democrats to encourage the Justice Department to release all of its files on Epstein’s criminal investigation.

Congress has set a Dec. 19 deadline for the release, under legislation Trump first opposed and later signed. Three federal judges have allowed the release of grand jury transcripts and other evidence from investigations of Epstein and his aide, Ghislaine Maxwell.

It was unclear why Democrats on the House Oversight Committee chose to release these 19 photos, which included images of sex toys and, separately, snapshots of various VIPs whose past associations with Epstein were already widely known.

Dems: Photo release is about 'transparency'

The photos were released without any captions identifying or providing the occasions, dates, locations or context of the famous people shown in them.

“All we want is full transparency," said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York. "That’s what the Epstein survivors deserve and have demanded.”

One picture shows Trump, who had a long friendship with Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s, posing for a photo with women whose faces are blacked out. He is seen chatting or sitting next to women in various pictures. One portrays a sign for a “Trump condom.”

Other images show former President Bill Clinton below an autograph, director Woody Allen, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the former British prince who was recently stripped of his title by his brother King Charles III. Allen is shown in one image talking to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.

Democrats ‘cherry-picked’ Epstein photos for ‘false narrative’: White House

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said Trump has done more than House Democrats to release thousands of pages of documents relating to the Epstein investigation.

Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing in the Epstein investigation. He has called Democratic releases of emails and pictures that mention him a “hoax” to distract from his accomplishments.

"Once again, House Democrats are selectively releasing cherry-picked photos with random redactions to try and create a false narrative,” Jackson said. “The Democrat hoax against President Trump has been repeatedly debunked and the Trump Administration has done more for Epstein’s victims than Democrats ever have by repeatedly calling for transparency, releasing thousands of pages of documents, and calling for further investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends.”

--Bart Jansen

Images revive past embarrassments

Numerous public figures connected to Jeffrey Epstein have been again tainted by the association this year as more information about their communication with and ties to Epstein have resurfaced.

Some were previously forced to explain and apologized for their links to Epstein after his federal indictment in 2019.

Former Harvard President Larry Summers stepped down from his role as an instructor at Harvard amid a university investigation into his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to the Harvard Crimson, the university's student newspaper.

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon also appeared in emails and photos released by Democrats.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew of the British royal family, appears in one of the photographs, alongside Microsoft founder Bill Gates. He was stripped of his royal title earlier this year and pushed out of his plush home at Royal Lodge amid reports of his association with Epstein.

--Sarah D. Wire

Where did these pictures come from?

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee asked for and received documents, including these pictures, from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate and have been slowly releasing the information. They have also released a trove of emails as well as photos and videos from Epstein’s private island.

These are not the same documents and information that the Justice Department is required by law to release by Dec. 19.

Epstein died in a federal jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. The death was ruled a suicide.

--Sarah D. Wire

'Disturbing' images

Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, told reporters Dec. 12 that he expects the committee to release more photos in the next few days as committee staff continue looking through the images and make redactions to protect survivors.

"We've gone through maybe about 25,000 of them so far," he said. "We will continue to put out more photos in the days and weeks ahead."

Garcia said come of the photos staff have reviewed were unsettling, but he did not provide details.

"Some of the other photos that we did not put out today are incredibly disturbing," he said.

Woody Allen’s name also appeared in Epstein emails

Woody Allen’s name appeared in Epstein emails previously released by the Republican majority on the House Oversight Committee.

He is mentioned in emails between Epstein and Boris Nikolic, a biotech venture capitalist, and Peter Thiel, the cofounder of PayPal. Both men had email relationships with Epstein, documents have shown.

In a 2011 email, Epstein shared a Daily Beast article that mentioned Allen with Nikolic. “How the daily beast knows about that dinner with woody allen and the crew?” Nikolic asks. “Who would know that? Some of your employees?”

In a 2014 email, Epstein asks Thiel, “any interest in woody allen.” Later in the chain, he says, “eyeing dinner with woody all casual.”

--Erin Mansfield

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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: New Epstein photos show Trump, Clinton, more VIPs in Dems' latest drop

Reporting by Bart Jansen, Sarah D. Wire and Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY / USA TODAY

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