The latest batch of images ­includes close-ups of sentences from Lolita, a book about a man’s obsession with a 12-year-old girl, scribbled in black ink across a woman’s body – chest, foot, neck and back; redacted identification cards of women from Russia, Morocco, ­Italy, Czech Republic, South ­Africa, Ukraine and Lithuania; and a late-night text thread about sending girls for someone identified as “j” for $1,000 each.

The 68 photos are among around 95,000 that Epstein’s estate released to the House Oversight Committee.

Last week, oversight Democrats released 19 photos, including some featuring now-president Donald Trump, who dismissed the images as “no big deal”.

Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, professor and political activist Noam Chomsky and former Trump aide Steve Bannon are also pictured in the latest images.

Committee Democrats said the images released yesterday “were selected to provide the public with transparency into a representative sample of the photos” and “to provide insights into Epstein’s network and his extremely disturbing activities”. Democrats said they had thousands more images, “both graphic and mundane”, which they are continuing to analyse.

“Oversight Democrats will continue to release photographs and documents from the Epstein ­estate to provide transparency for the American people,” said California Representative Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the committee.

“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. We must end this White House cover-up, and the DOJ must release the Epstein files now.”

The White House did not ­immediately respond to a request for comment.

Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for trafficking teenage girls to Epstein, has launched a last-ditch legal bid to be released from prison, claiming “substantial new evidence” proves she did not receive a fair trial.

She made the application at a court in Manhattan on Wednesday. In a lengthy filing, the 63-year-old claimed juror misconduct and government suppression of evidence meant she did not receive “a fair trial by independent jurors coming to court with an open mind”.