In early December 2025, social media users claimed an image of a room that housed what appeared to be a dentist's chair surrounded by masks of older men on the walls came from the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's private island in the Caribbean.
The rumor spread on X, Facebook and Reddit.
In short, the claim was true. House Oversight Committee Democrats released the image on Dec. 2 alongside a trove of photos and videos from "Epstein's Island" in the U.S. Virgin Islands. (While Epstein owned both Great St. James and Little St. James islands, "Epstein Island" generally refers to Little St. James.) The committee received the images in response to a Nov. 18 request for additional Epstein investigation files from the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Justice.
According to the Oversight Democrats, these images had not been publicly released before their announcement.
Epstein died by suicide in his jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial, according to the FBI.
While social media users speculated about who was depicted among the masks, Oversight Democrats did not release any additional information about the photos, and it was impossible to definitively tell whether they represented any particular people.
Other images released showed a chalkboard with various scribblings on it and a landline phone with speed-dial contacts, some of which had been redacted.
In late 2025, lawmakers passed legislation to release additional files related to the investigation into Epstein, which President Donald Trump signed Nov. 19. As of this writing, the Department of Justice has yet to release those files.
In a Dec. 3 letter, five lawmakers from both parties and chambers asked Attorney General Pam Bondi for a status update "in light of the short 30 day deadline to release the Epstein Files," as outlined in the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
See more rumors we've investigated about Epstein in our collection of stories here.