In a disturbing new batch of 68 photographs released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on December 18, 2025, images from Jeffrey Epstein’s personal estate collection show excerpts from Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial 1955 novel Lolita handwritten in black marker on a woman’s bare skin.
The photos, part of a larger trove of 95,000 images subpoenaed from Epstein’s estate, include close-ups of body parts—such as a foot, neck, chest, and spine—with famous passages from the book’s opening lines. One image captures a foot inscribed with “She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock,” with a copy of Lolita visible in the background. Another shows “Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth” trailing toward cleavage. Additional phrases include “She was Lola in slacks,” “She was Dolly at school,” and “She was Dolores on the dotted line.”
Lolita chronicles a middle-aged man’s obsessive sexual exploitation of a 12-year-old girl, a narrative Epstein appeared to fetishize. His private jet was notoriously dubbed the “Lolita Express,” and reports confirm he owned a first-edition copy displayed in his New York home.
These images, released without context on the eve of the Justice Department’s mandated Epstein file disclosure under the 2025 Transparency Act, underscore the financier’s depraved mindset. Victims’ advocates condemn the objectification, arguing it exemplifies how Epstein treated young women as props in his predatory fantasies.
While the woman’s identity remains obscured and no faces are shown, the photos reinforce Epstein’s pattern of grooming and abuse. Separate from DOJ investigative files, this estate material—also including foreign passports and texts scouting girls—intensifies calls for full accountability amid ongoing scrutiny of his elite network.
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