FBI Says Video Proves Jeffrey Epstein Died by Suicide — and It Will Release Footage Soon

FBI Deputy Director Don Bongino said Thursday, May 29 that he plans to merchandise situation video of Jeffrey Epstein that confirms nan billionaire financier and convicted activity offender killed himself.

“There is video,” Bongino told Fox & Friends. “You are going to spot location is nary 1 location but him... location is video clear arsenic day, he’s nan only personification successful location and nan only personification coming out.”

Epstein, 66, was recovered hanging wrong a jailhouse compartment astatine nan Metropolitan Correctional Center successful New York City connected nan greeting of Aug. 10, 2019, wherever he was awaiting proceedings connected national conspiracy and activity trafficking charges. His decease was ruled a suicide.

Despite this, conspiracy theorists person agelong believed that he did not extremity his life, maintaining that Epstein's decease was murder

“I opportunity to people, if you person a tip, fto america know,” Bongino, a erstwhile blimpish talk show host, said. “But there’s nary DNA, there’s nary audio, there’s nary fingerprints, there’s nary suspects, there’s nary accomplices, there’s nary tips. There is nothing. If you person it, I’m happy to spot it.”

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Bongino said his agency was “working connected cleaning” up nan video. “There is going to beryllium a disclosure connected this coming shortly. We will springiness nan original, truthful you don’t deliberation location were immoderate shenanigans.”

When asked if nan video would see Epstein sidesplitting himself, Bongino responded that nan video doesn’t show “the existent act.”

Epstein was accused of molesting aggregate teenaged girls astatine his Palm Beach mansion. Investigators claimed that Epstein would lure teen girls to his location by paying them to massage him. During nan massages, he would allegedly battle nan teens, unit them to person activity pinch him and connection them money to bring him different underage girls to assault.

Many of his alleged victims said to Lifetime for Surviving Jeffrey Epstein, a four-hour miniseries connected nan financier's alleged crimes. Virginia Giuffre, who said she was recruited by Epstein’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell, said successful 1 of nan first 2 episodes that nan first clip she was abused by Epstein, Maxwell assisted.

"The massage seemed morganatic astatine first. Ghislaine grabbed 1 foot, I grabbed nan other, and she says, 'You ever wanna support 1 manus connected nan assemblage erstwhile you're massaging somebody.' And past he turns complete and nan full point changed," recalled Giuffre, who committed termination astatine nan property of 41 astatine her workplace extracurricular Perth, Australia, connected Thursday, April 24.

They commanded her to undress.

"I had these small woman undies on, like, small hearts connected them, I remember, and they were laughing astatine that because they liked that. The younger you look, nan amended it is. So, I stripped down. Ghislaine stripped down. It turned very sexual. It was maltreatment correct distant from some of them."

Epstein was arrested successful July 2019 for allegedly activity trafficking girls arsenic young arsenic 14. He died almost a period aft his arrest.

Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years successful national situation astatine Florida Correctional Institution-Tallahassee connected June 28, 2022. In summation to her situation sentence, she was fined $750,000.