Jeffrey Epstein received no outside help in carrying out his suicide, which occurred on August 10, 2019 in New York. No help but a “combination of negligence”, all listed in a new report from the United States Department of Justice, released on Tuesday and to which The Guardian had access.
This 128-page investigation comes more than four years after the American financier close to politicians and celebrities committed suicide at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, while awaiting trial for “sex trafficking of minors”. It also comes weeks after The Associated Press obtained thousands of pages of documents detailing Epstein’s detention and death.
In this detailed report, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz looks back on the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ failure to assign a cellmate to Epstein after his previous fellow inmate left. This failure, as well as problems with surveillance cameras, a cell “with too many sheets” (used during his suicide), overworked prison staff would have allowed the man accused of “sex trafficking of minors” to organize his suicide.
This report thus reiterates the conclusions of other investigations refuting the conspiracy theories surrounding the highly publicized death of the billionaire. These theories ensured that the high-ranking figures involved in this sex scandal would have orchestrated his suicide in order to protect themselves from involvement in the affair.
As a reminder, the businessman, who had in his notebooks the contacts of Donald Trump, former President of the United States, Jean-Luc Brunel, modeling agent or even the son of Elizabeth II, Prince Andrew, was accused of setting up a sex trafficking network of underage young women. It was his wife, Ghislaine Maxwell, who recruited teenage girls and then turned them into sex slaves.