A spokesperson for the New York Times told WIRED in a statement that Brooks “regularly attends events to speak with well-known and important business leaders to inform his columns” and that Brooks had no contact with Epstein before or after attending the 2011 dinner where the photo was taken.
A representative for the Gates Foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did representatives for Google, Allen, Chomsky and Bannon. War room podcast.
The release also includes close-ups of women's body parts with quotes from Vladimir Nabokov's book Lolita scribbled on it, a photo of a pill bottle containing a drug commonly used to relieve the symptoms of urinary tract infections, and redacted images of travel documents from several countries, including Ukraine and Lithuania.
The House committee's investigation into Epstein has been underway for several months and is separate from the document dump expected to be released by the U.S. Department of Justice this week. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law last month, requires the DOJ to release “all unclassified records, documents, communications and investigative materials” in its possession by December 19.
As part of the investigation, the committee subpoenaed Epstein's estate and included instructions for the estate to produce two separate sets of documents — one for the Democrats on the committee, the other for the Republicans. As the committee has received documents from the estate, both Democrats and the committee as a whole have made their own releases. The material in these releases has raised new questions about the well-documented relationship between Epstein and President Donald Trump; It shows, among other things, that Epstein claims he has intimate knowledge of Trump's positions in conversations with a Gates adviser.
Documents related to investigations into Epstein have overshadowed the first year of the second Trump administration, several members of which made the release of the documents a central talking point ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The political dynamic has shifted in the past year as it became clear that Trump, a former friend of Epstein, appears repeatedly in the investigation file.
“As we approach the deadline for the Epstein Files Transparency Act, these new images raise more questions about what exactly the Department of Justice has in its possession,” Rep. Robert Garcia, the committee's top Democratic member, said in a news release. “We must put an end to this White House cover-up, and the DOJ must release the Epstein files now.”
