On Wednesday, House Oversight Committee Democrats unveiled over 150 still images and more than a dozen brief videos from the Virgin Islands estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. This coincided with attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s associate, pushing back against releasing grand jury materials pertinent to her criminal case.

The images, which lack any human presence, were captured by the U.S. Virgin Islands government in 2020 as part of civil proceedings against Epstein’s estate. Some of these visuals resemble content previously shared by James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, earlier this year.

Among the released items is a photograph of a room featuring a dentist’s chair surrounded by several masks adorning the walls. Also included is an image of a blackboard inscribed with words like “Power,” “Deception,” “Intellectual,” “Political,” and “Music,” while other terms remain obscured.

Epstein was known to have dental chairs in his properties, a detail corroborated by a 2005 police search video of his Palm Beach residence showing a similar setup with dental equipment.

Another image from the Wednesday release depicts a prominent “No Trespassing” sign propped against a rock on the beach. A close-up photograph of a telephone reveals speed dial buttons linked to several of Epstein’s employees.

The short videos show walk-throughs of a bedroom and bathroom, the coastline and helipad, and the pool area.

After the initial release of a dozen images and four short videos, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee slammed the committee’s Democrats for “chasing headlines” by releasing the materials as “never-before-seen” when similar material had been published previously. A subsequent release contained more than 100 additional images and videos.

Committee Democrats did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.

A spokesperson for the committee’s GOP majority also criticized the Democrats for again releasing only a small subset of the records.

“The House Oversight Committee has received approximately 5,000 documents in response to Chairman Comer’s subpoenas to J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank, as well as his request to the U.S. Virgin Islands,” the GOP spokesperson said. “The Majority is reviewing these materials and will make them public soon, just as the Committee has already done with the more than 65,000 pages produced during this investigation.”

“It is odd that Democrats are once again releasing selective information, as they have done before,” the statement said.

Materials released later in the day included 15 more videos and more than 150 additional images, including an image of a framed photo of Epstein and Maxwell greeting Pope John Paul II, which had previously been made public.

One image showed a computer monitor that appeared to be part of a security system, and another showed a white bathrobe hanging on the door outside a bathroom.

Other images showed a fancy chef’s kitchen, a beach and dock, and one of Epstein’s boats, named “Little C.”

The Epstein estate in 2022 agreed to settle its litigation with the U.S. Virgin Islands, paying the government $105 million plus a percentage of the proceeds from the sale of Epstein’s property, and a repayment of tax breaks that Epstein’s companies had received over the years from the USVI.

Maxwell’s attorney on Wednesday told a federal judge in New York that she takes no formal position on the Justice Department’s latest request to unseal grand jury transcripts from her criminal case — but she also argues that release of the materials would impact her ability to potentially get a fair retrial.

“Understanding that President Trump has signed the Epstein Transparency Act into law, Ms. Maxwell does not take a position regarding the government’s request to unseal the grand jury transcripts and modify the protective order,” wrote Maxwell’s attorneys, David Markus and Melissa Madrigal.

“At the same time, Ms. Maxwell respectfully notes that shortly she will be filing a habeas petition pro se. Releasing the grand jury materials from her case, which contain untested and unproven allegations, would create undue prejudice so severe that it would foreclose the possibility of a fair retrial should Ms. Maxwell’s habeas petition succeed,” the lawyers wrote.

Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after she was convicted in 2021 on five counts of aiding Epstein in his abuse of underage girls, was unsuccessful in her appeals of her 2021 conviction at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court, but she and her lawyers have indicated that she intends to file a habeas petition in the Southern District of New York.

Epstein, the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender, died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019.

The Epstein Transparency Act, passed last month by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump following blowback the administration received from MAGA supporters seeking the release of the materials, contains exemptions that would allow the DOJ to withhold records that “would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution, provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary.”

Prior to the exhaustion of Maxwell’s direct appeals, the DOJ had cited her ongoing case as justification for declining a public records request, according to court records in a Freedom of Information Act case pertaining to the DOJ’s Epstein files.

It’s not clear if the DOJ would seek to withhold records based on the unlikely prospect of Maxwell getting a new trial. 

The DOJ has, however, already cited the possibility of a Maxwell retrial in other litigation as a justification for withholding certain records related to the Justice Department and FBI searches and redactions of the Epstein files. 

In response to a lawsuit filed earlier this year by Bloomberg reporter Jason Leopold, the DOJ cited a FOIA exemption that allows withholding of records that, if released, could “reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.”

“Although Ms. Maxwell’s direct appeal rights have been exhausted, her lawyer has stated that she intends to seek habeas relief,” the DOJ wrote in a court filing on Nov. 24 — five days after Trump signed the Epstein Transparency Act.

“[L]ogic suggests that the existence of a pending motion … makes it reasonably foreseeable that an enforcement proceeding (i.e., a new trial) might take place, leading to the expectation that Exemption 7(A) may apply to protect materials whose release could reasonably be expected to interfere with that new trial,” the DOJ wrote.

ABC News’ Lauren Peller contributed to this report.