Disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein dies by suicide - media reports

By Jan Wolfe

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout/File Photo via REUTERS

 

(Reuters) - Jeffrey Epstein, the U.S. financier facing federal sex trafficking charges, committed suicide on Friday night in his lower Manhattan jail cell, several U.S. media outlets reported on Saturday.

 

Epstein, who was arrested on July 6, had pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of underage girls as young as 14, from at least 2002 to 2005.

 

The charges were announced more than a decade after Epstein pleaded guilty to state prostitution charges in Florida.

 

He was confined in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan while he appealed a district judge's refusal to let him live under 24-hour guard in his home on the Upper East Side.

 

Last month, Epstein was found unconscious in his cell with injuries to his neck, media outlets reported, citing unidentified sources.

 

(Reporting by Jan Wolfe; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-08-10

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Best confession ever, and maybe a sigh of relief to all others mentioned in this case. 

2 minutes ago, Carib said:

Best confession ever, and maybe a sigh of relief to all others mentioned in this case. 

Bill and Hilary will sleep like babies tonight.

Unfortunately, it probably lets all the others involved off the hook.  Maybe that was his intention.  Hopefully, the press will not let the matter stop there. 

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Golly, that should get the conspiracy theorists into overdrive!

he was on suicide watch as well, what happened to that, reports said some very high up democrats would be in a lot of trouble but not anymore by the looks of it, hmmm

 

So basically he got off easy. I seriously doubt his motivation to commit suicide was to protect others that have been implicated. But yes they all need to be presumed innocent and its probably over.

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Well Andrew will be relieved on hearing about this.

One of the benefits of living in Thailand. He could have easily bought his way out of this situation and gone on with life happily ever after.

As I said at the time of him being found unconscious in his cell, there is absolutely no excuse of this man to have been left unguarded at any time, he was a clear suicide risk and his suicide would have grave implications for faith in justice being  served on the rich and powerful. 

 

I don't buy into conspiracy theories, but in this case it will be extremely hard to refute accusations of intentional neglect.

 

Thankfully, the FBI have recovered a mass of documents and tapes from this vile criminal, these now need to be made public. 

24 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Well Andrew will be relieved on hearing about this.

So will Donald.

well, he won't  implicate any others now

51 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

sex trafficking involving dozens of underage girls as young as 14

 

52 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

committed suicide

Good.

42 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

Bill and Hilary will sleep like babies tonight.

Well, we know Trump will !!

3 minutes ago, surangw said:

well, he won't  implicate any others now

No, but the contents of his safe will.

he was evidently on a suicide watch, considering who he had the dirt on, perhaps someone or some people was paid to "look the other way" and let this transpire. very suspicious. 

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4 minutes ago, Seismic said:

Well, we know Trump will !!

Yes, babies tend to sleep like....well, babies. 

57 minutes ago, Carib said:

Best confession ever, and maybe a sigh of relief to all others mentioned in this case. 

hopefully those abused win their case's in civil court

I wouldn't mind getting a piece of the fortune he left behind, maybe he's one of my 23 and Me cousins, we kind of look alike (when he was still breathing, that is).

 

There are many, many people who are breathing easier now that he's dead, partisan politics be damned.  Dead men tell no tales, especially not to prosecutors.  I'm not expecting any straight answers about the details of the suicide, but I suspect there was a fat bounty on him that every correctional officer knew about.

Lots of magazine articles and books to be sold about this too.  Lots of women selling their stories of what he did to them, true or not.  cha-ching!

 

 

15 minutes ago, malibukid said:

he was evidently on a suicide watch, considering who he had the dirt on, perhaps someone or some people was paid to "look the other way" and let this transpire. very suspicious. 

 

The MDC in Manhattan is a really nasty place.

 

God and few others know how this happened......

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Please stay on topic.  

 

47 minutes ago, malibukid said:

he was evidently on a suicide watch, considering who he had the dirt on, perhaps someone or some people was paid to "look the other way" and let this transpire. very suspicious. 

That was my first thought...assisted suicide.

17 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

That was my first thought...assisted suicide.

What makes you so sure it was suicide???

They seem to have come to that conclusion quicker than a Thai Cop...

3 minutes ago, Basil B said:

What makes you so sure it was suicide???

They seem to have come to that conclusion quicker than a Thai Cop...

Err...assisted suicide is a euphemism maybe?

How does a guy on suicide watch kill himself?

 

Maybe the first time was botched, second time worked.

Sounds like he was taken off suicide watch.

 

"He was not on suicide watch at the time of his death, multiple sources told NBC News. "  https://www.businessinsider.com/how-jeffrey-epstein-died-on-suicide-watch-2019-8

 

4 minutes ago, Misty said:

Sounds like he was taken off suicide watch.

 

"He was not on suicide watch at the time of his death, multiple sources told NBC News. "  https://www.businessinsider.com/how-jeffrey-epstein-died-on-suicide-watch-2019-8

 

I wonder why? 

it would seem the US is no different to Thailand, or indeed the rest of the world, when it comes to the elite. They will always look after themselves. Always have and always will. It has been this way for millennia. All the calls for the Red Bull criminal etc will be treated with the same disdain. The plebs will whine and post on forums, but the result will be the same. Anyone remember Teddy and Mary-Jo?