In a recent data release of the Epstein files, thousands of new images emerged, but one photograph in particular has raised alarm. The picture shows the notorious billionaire and convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, lounging in a half-naked state, which has led to concerns he was in the company of a toddler.

The disgraced financier is depicted smiling broadly in several images taken at his opulent estate. In one striking photo, he is seen shirtless, with a white towel seemingly wrapped around his waist, as he relaxes on a couch.

Next to Epstein, another individual is present, though mostly outside the camera’s view.

Sharp-eyed observers, sifting through the nearly 600,000 pages of documents released by the Department of Justice under Donald Trump’s administration, noticed a small leg and foot at the bottom left corner of the photograph.

The limb, slender and clad in a black sneaker, appeared so diminutive that many speculated it might belong to a young child.

While the image might be innocent, its association with a trove of evidence related to sex trafficking has provoked widespread anger and concern.

‘There’s a f***ing toddler in the newly released photos from the Epstein Files. Disgusting animal,’ one critic said.

Another wrote: ‘One image shows Epstein shirtless, with a child’s leg visible in the frame.’

Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is all smiles in the picture as he poses without a shirt and with what appears to be a white towel wrapped around his waist on a couch

He is joined by another person, who is largely out of frame in the image. But eagle-eyed critics pouring over the nearly 600,000 pages of documents released by Donald Trump’s Department of Justice on Friday afternoon noted the person’s tiny leg and foot were visible in the left hand corner of the image

In the image, the leg is so small it does not reach beyond the edge of the couch the person is sitting on.

Epstein’s victims were primarily minors, but the disgraced financier is most famously known for taking advantage of young women aged 14 to 17.

Court documents and testimony from accusers details allegations against Epstein from victims who say they were as young as 11 when the abuse began.

So photographs of him with children who appear far younger than that have sparked concerns that the depths of his crimes go further than what has been previously reported.

A complaint made to the FBI by a woman in 1996 revealed Epstein was accused of stealing photos and negatives an artist had taken of her 12-year-old and 16-year-old sisters for a personal project. 

The one-page report was taken years before an investigation was launched into allegations that Epstein was sexually abusing underage girls.

The artist’s name is redacted in the file, but the handwritten report says she believed Epstein sold the photos. She has since identified herself as Maria Farmer, a woman who long claimed she had filed a report but had been met with silence by the FBI and allegations she fabricated her complaint. 

Farmer said Epstein had previously asked her to take photos of young girls at swimming pools.

‘I’ve waited 30 years,’ she told The New York Times on Friday. ‘I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.’ 

Epstein was pictured with several people who had their faces protected in the images, out of concern they may have been his victims

Mnay pictures illustrated Epstein with young girls

The data dump on Friday was intended to comply with a law overwhelmingly passed by Congress in November that mandated the disclosure of all Epstein files

The complaint also says the woman reported being threatened by Epstein not to talk about the photos or ‘he will burn her house down.’

The data dump on Friday was intended to comply with a law overwhelmingly passed by Congress in November that mandated the disclosure of all Epstein files.

Trump had spent the first months of his return to the White House trying to keep them sealed.

He had for years promoted conspiracy theories about Epstein, but the case has turned into a political liability for him since his return to the White House in January. 

Former MAGA ally Marjorie Taylor Greene led Republican efforts demanding every single Epstein file be released to the public as an act of transparency.

She voiced her fury on Friday when it became clear that the Department of Justice had redacted huge swathes of information, including the names of high profile individuals featured in the documents.

‘The whole point was NOT to protect the ‘politically exposed individuals and government officials,’ Greene wrote on X in a scathing takedown of everyone involved.

‘That’s exactly what MAGA has always wanted, that’s what drain the swamp actually means.

Epstein’s massage room included shelved of lotions and oils and a massive photo of a nude woman

The home also featured art of a bride statue  hanging from a rope above a spiral staircase

An erotic book on Epstein’s desk entitled ‘Erotica Universalis’ next to glasses and a bottle of water

‘It means expose them all, the rich powerful elites who are corrupt and commit crimes, NOT redact their names and protect them.’

She accused the administration of breaking the law by not releasing the information in full.

Meanwhile, thousands more pages of Epstein files were withheld entirely and will be released to the public ‘at a later date.’ 

What did emerge were dozens of never-before-seen images from inside Epstein’s lair on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

The images showed massage rooms, erotic paintings of women on his walls and hidden cameras, as well as sex toys and fantasy costumes.

The $77million townhouse, a short walk from Central Park, was sold to Epstein by Victoria’s Secret owner Leslie Wexner, who was known to have bankrolled much of Epstein’s life in his heyday.

Epstein filled the home with bizarre decor, including a sculpture of a woman clutching a rope hanging from the ceiling in his entryway. 

Many of the walls inside Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse were decorated with paintings and pictures of scantily-clad women.  

Epstein’s home had a statue of a young boy below images of insects

Clinton features prominently in the files, seen here relaxing in what appears to be a hot tub

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is seen lying across women at a black-tie event with Maxwell

In what is thought to be Epstein’s bedroom, a hidden camera could be seen perched high up on an alcove above the room. An oriental blue porcelain sculpture was also seen.

And a humiliating painting of former President Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress, an image that became infamous amid the fallout of the Epstein scandal, was found hanging in the halls. 

Another file in the released trove included a receipt for two books about erotic slavery purchased on Amazon.

One of the books was titled ‘Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude’, while he second was titled ‘Training with Miss Abernathy: A Workbook for Erotic Slaves and Their Owners.’

The blurb for the first book reads: ‘The author of Ties That Bind joins forces with a grateful slave to produce this gripping and personal account on the subject of consensual slavery.

‘Philosophical and intense, SlaveCraft dares to delve beneath the surface of D/s relationships and give us an intimate and revealing view from a rare perspective–that of a slave.’

Clinton was also seen partying with Epstein and Michael Jackson in other images. 

Michael Jackson was seen in one image smiling alongside Epstein, and another showed Clinton with actor Kevin Spacey.

In undated images from a dinner party attended by Epstein, rock legend Sir Mick Jagger was seen enjoying a meal with the pedophile, Maxwell and Clinton.

The inclusion of individuals’ names or pictures in the files released is not an indication of any wrongdoing. Many of the people identified in other releases have denied having done anything wrong 

Clinton was among the most prominently featured high-profile figures throughout the trove of information and pictures released.

Epstein is pictured with broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite

Clinton swims in a pool with Maxwell and an unidentified woman

Bill Clinton is seen with his arm around Michael Jackson. The pair pose with Diana ross and a redacted woman

Images of erotica were a theme in Epstein’s home

In another picture, he appeared in a spa with a person whose face had been blacked out. In another, he was swimming in a pool.

‘The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,’ a spokesperson for Clinton said in the hours immediately after the files were released.

‘This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever.

‘So they can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be.

‘Even Susie Wiles said Donald Trump was wrong about Bill Clinton,’ the spokesperson added, referencing Wiles’ recent interview with Vanity Fair in which she admitted ‘Trump was wrong’ about there being incriminating evidence against Clinton.

‘There are two types of people here. The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light. The second group continued relationships with him after. We’re in the first,’ Clinton’s spokesperson said.

‘No amount of stalling by people in the second group will change that. Everyone, especially MAGA, expects answers, not scapegoats.’