While Epstein’s victims endure the fallout of their photos and names being exposed in the Department of Justice’s latest tranche of files, investigators redacted a photo of the Mona Lisa. Now we know why.

The Department of Justice redacted the face of the Mona Lisa, a 522-year-old painting of an Italian woman who died centuries ago, as part of its release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.

In a PDF of an email with the subject line “simply paris” sent on July 3, 2009, a redacted sender sent Epstein several photos of, presumably, himself and a woman sightseeing in Paris. The photos of the woman are all redacted with a black box over her face, but the man’s face is visible.

The photos are from tourist locations like Disneyland Paris, the Versailles fountains, and the Louvre, where the Mona Lisa is installed. “We just walked around all over the city not just the sight seeing…we took like 1500 pictures so was really difficult to decide wich to send! :)” the sender wrote at the end of the email.

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    70·
    12 hours ago

    They posted an update, an official statement said that a victims face was overlaid over the artwork.

    So while this probably seemed ridiculous, there was a valid reason.

    • Kalon@feddit.onlineEnglish
      561·
      12 hours ago

      In a functioning government this would make sense.

      Unfortunately I don’t take anything they say as fact anymore.