Longtime trustee and businessman Thomas Pritzker (M.B.A. ’76, J.D. ’76) and New York Times columnist and former University of Chicago trustee David Brooks (A.B. ’83) appear in newly released photographs from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.

The images, which were made public Thursday by the House Oversight Committee, are part of a collection of more than 95,000 photographs obtained from the late financier and convicted sex offender’s estate.

One undated photograph released by the House Oversight Committee appears to show Pritzker seated at a table alongside Epstein, filmmaker Woody Allen, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and magician David Blaine.

Emails and correspondence released last month indicate that Pritzker and Epstein shared a close personal relationship. Among the nearly 20,000 pages of documents shared by the House Oversight Committee were more than two dozen emails between them. The documents also show that Pritzker was still in contact with Epstein as late as February 2019, just months before his July 2019 arrest on federal sex trafficking charges.

Pritzker’s name also appears in Epstein’s “little black book” and the flight logs of Epstein’s private planes.

Pritzker could not be reached for comment at the time of publication.

Several other photographs show Brooks at a separate event, seated next to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. In another, he is pictured by himself, smiling at the camera.

The photographs of Brooks match images taken by former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold at a dinner event hosted by the Edge Foundation in 2011. Other attendees included Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, musician Peter Gabriel, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The images do not indicate any wrongdoing by those depicted.

Although Epstein is not listed on the Edge website as an attendee, one of the newly released photographs shows him at what appears to be the same dinner.

The event occurred three years after Epstein pled guilty to state charges that he had solicited prostitution from a minor.

Brooks was elected to the University of Chicago Board of Trustees in 2012. His term ended sometime prior to 2023. Brooks also served on the Board of Advisors for the University of Chicago Institute of Politics from 2013 to 2018. He is currently a senior advisor to the UChicago Leadership & Society Initiative.

In a statement, a New York Times spokesperson said that “as a journalist, David Brooks regularly attends events to speak with noted and important business leaders to inform his columns, which is exactly what happened at this 2011 event. Mr. Brooks had no contact with him before or after this single attendance at a widely-attended dinner.”

In an interview with PBS News Hour, Brooks said he did not meet Epstein or speak to him at the dinner.

“I had no idea who Jeffrey Epstein was in 2011… and I have had no contact with him,” Brooks said.

The pictures come less than a month after Brooks published an op-ed in the New York Times titled “The Epstein Story? Count Me Out,” in which he criticized Democrats for pushing for the release of documents related to Epstein. Brooks did not disclose his attendance at the event in his column.

“They may believe that the Epstein file release will somehow hurt [President Donald] Trump,” he wrote. “But they are undermining public trust and sowing public cynicism in ways that make the entire progressive project impossible. They are contributing to a public atmosphere in which right-wing populism naturally thrives.”