WASHINGTON — New York Times columnist David Brooks and Google co-founder Sergey Brin are among the new faces in photos released Thursday by congressional Democrats from a trove of documents handed over by the estate of late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Magician David Blaine and Noam Chomsky, the linguist and political commentator, also were pictured in the cache, which was released without any evidence of wrongdoing on their part.
None of the four men immediately responded to The Post’s request for comment, though the Times defended Brooks, saying his interaction with Epstein was for journalistic purposed and confined to a single 2011 event.
Brin was photographed at the same event as Brooks.
Chomsky is seen with Epstein on what appeared to be a private jet.
Blaine, meanwhile, was pictured standing at the edge of a boardroom table — as Epstein rested his arms on chairs occupied by filmmaker Woody Allen and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, both previously well-known Epstein associates.
Additional photos in the collection show President Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon, who says he interviewed Epstein for a project that has not been published, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who is shown with his arm around a woman.
The photo collection was released just one day before a congressionally mandated deadline for the Justice Department to release most files from its investigation of Epstein, whom authorities say hanged himself in jail while awaiting charges in 2019.
Trump initially opposed the legislative requirement, accusing Democrats of perpetuating a “hoax” to smear him and others for their past associations with the disgraced financier.
Trump says he broke off contact with Epstein after years of partying together in New York and Palm Beach over Epstein’s theft of staff from Mar-a-Lago.
Former President Bill Clinton also was a close associate of Epstein, but also says he broke off communications before Epstein’s public disgrace, which began with his guilty plea to Florida sex crimes in 2008.
