CCTV footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s last night in prison has finally been released, after the US government vowed to release it to shut down speculation.
The video, hosted on the Department for Justice website, shows the night he died in a Manhattan jail in 2019.
Authorities say the footage shows no one entered the area he was being held, so he could not have been murdered in a bid to silence him speaking out.
They say there is no evidence he had a ‘client list’ of powerful people who were blackmail targets.
A watchdog report in 2023 found that prison guard negligence, misconduct and performance failures led to the financier killing himself in his jail cell.
But conspiracies and speculation continue to swirl, with recent claims from Elon Musk that explosive files are still under wraps but ‘the truth will come out’ only fuelling theories.
A memo seen by Axios says that investigators analyzed footage of the cell between 10.40pm on August 9, and around 6.30am the next day, when he was found unresponsive.
The CCTV shows nobody entering the area, according to the US administration.
They said they found ‘no incriminating client list’ and ‘no credible evidence […] that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals’.
There was also no evidence to begin an investigation into any of his associates who had not been charged already, it said.
More to follow.
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