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Images released Friday show the rich and powerful people with whom convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein socialized, and other glimpses of his lifestyle.
The undated photographs are from Epstein’s email account and computer, according to Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, who published the photographs.
One image shows Donald Trump before he became president standing with six women, whose faces have been redacted, at a party wearing Hawaiian-inspired leis. Another photograph of the president, who was a real estate developer and friend of Epstein at the time, shows him speaking with a woman at a party . Epstein stands beside Trump. In a third photo, Trump appears seated next to a blonde woman whose face has been redacted.
Other images in the release include Epstein pictured with former President Bill Clinton, Virgin Group founder and billionaire Richard Branson, political strategist and Trump ally Steve Bannon, and film director Woody Allen.
Former British prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor stands with Microsoft magnate Bill Gates in another photograph.
Epstein, who sexually abused women and underage girls at his homes and one of his private islands in the Caribbean, also kept images of sex toys, according to the new release. One of the photographs shows novelty condoms with Trump’s likeness on them, spread out on a table. Behind the table reads a sign that says “Trump Condom $4.50.”
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