A blackboard with “power” written on it, a dentist’s chair in a windowless room, mountains and mountains of folded towels in a bathroom. The Jeffrey Epstein case is a horror film that has no end and continues to terrify. The latest gruesome chapter in the story of the pedophile financier, who committed suicide in prison in 2019, are the unpublished photos and videos published by the Democrats of the House Oversight Committee.
These are images of the resort on the infamous Caribbean island of Little Saint James, which belonged to Epstein and for decades was the center of abuse of girls and young women by the monster and his friends. The new photos show several bedrooms, two bathrooms, a landline phone with the names Darren, Rich, Mike, Patrick and Larry written on the speed-dial buttons. In the videos there are the luxurious gardens of the villa, the swimming pool, the palm trees and a path overlooking the ocean.
But the most striking images are two: in one there is what looks like a dentist’s chair, white and orange, in a room without windows on whose walls hang the masks of men, bald and with pronounced noses. In another you can see an austere room, again without windows, with red velvet damask armchairs and on one of the walls a large blackboard with words such as “power”, “deceit”, “conspiracies” and “political” written on it.
There are also some women’s names, which were omitted by the supervisory commission to protect the victims of the pedophile and his accomplices. «These new images offer a disturbing glimpse into the world of Epstein and his island. We are releasing them to ensure transparency in our investigation and to help reconstruct the complete picture of the financier’s horrific crimes,” said Rep. Robert Garcia, the commission’s leading Democrat, in a statement.
The disclosure comes a few days after Donald Trump signed a law that forces the Justice Department to publish all the so-called “Epstein files” in its possession, after months of attacks on the American president and his administration for the handling of the case. Not only from the financier’s victims, but also from the Maga base and from some Republicans, such as MP Marjorie Taylor-Greene who broke with the tycoon and announced that she will leave the House in January.
Publication of the documents could occur within a few days, unless the Justice Department relies on the law’s clause that requires them not to be released if there is an ongoing investigation. And the investigation is there. It is the one ordered by the tycoon in November on the links between Epstein and several important Democrats, including former president Bill Clinton, mega-donor Reid Hoffman and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.