What we know about the creepy photo Jeffrey Epstein had of a lounging woman on his desk

WASHINGTON — A haunting photo of a lounging woman that Jeffrey Epstein kept on his home office desk is among several mysterious artifacts belonging to the convicted sex offender that can be seen in new photos published Friday by members of a US House committee.The snapshot, in which the woman is seen lying in an awkward position on what appears to be a couch, is visible in a photo of Epstein and former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon at the notorious pedophile’s Upper East Side residence.The photo is undated, but previously released records indicate that Bannon spent several hours interviewing Epstein in 2019 for a never-released documentary.Page Six also reported in August 2018 on at least one meeting between Bannon and Epstein at the East 71st Street townhouse.Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released just 19 photos of more than 95,000 received from Epstein’s estate — which show the financier’s most famous and influential former associates like President Trump, former President Bill Clinton, movie director Woody Allen, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, Duke of York.A handful of images of Trump depict him with women whose faces are blacked out to suggest they were victims of Epstein and his convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, though it’s unclear whether that was actually the case.In the unsettling photo on Epstein’s desk, the woman’s face is also covered by a small black square to prevent recognition.Some social media users have speculated that the picture was intended as a display of the “leverage” he had over the dozens of young women he trafficked.The unidentified woman appears “passed out” and appeared to be roughly the age as some of his other victims, netizens suggested.“What a sicko,” one X user posted.“What appears to be an incapacitated young girl passed out on a couch.

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