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 release prison video of Jeffrey Epstein that confirms the billionaire financier and convicted sex offender killed himself.

“There is video,” Bongino told Fox & Friends. “You are going to see there is no one there but him… there is video clear as day, he’s the only person in there and the only person coming out.”

Epstein, 66, was found hanging inside a jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on the morning of Aug. 10, 2019, where he was awaiting trial on federal conspiracy and sex trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide.

Despite this, conspiracy theorists have long believed that he did not end his life, maintaining that Epstein’s death was murder

“I say to people, if you have a tip, let us know,” Bongino, a former conservative talk show host, said. “But there’s no DNA, there’s no audio, there’s no fingerprints, there’s no suspects, there’s no accomplices, there’s no tips. There is nothing. If you have it, I’m happy to see it.”

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Bongino said his office was “working on cleaning” up the video. “There is going to be a disclosure on this coming shortly. We will give the original, so you don’t think there were any shenanigans.”

When asked if the video would include Epstein killing himself, Bongino responded that the video doesn’t show “the actual act.”

Epstein was accused of molesting multiple teenaged girls at his Palm Beach mansion. Investigators claimed that Epstein would lure teen girls to his home by paying them to massage him. During the massages, he would allegedly assault the teens, force them to have sex with him and offer them money to bring him other underage girls to assault.

Many of his alleged victims spoke to Lifetime for Surviving Jeffrey Epstein, a four-hour miniseries on the financier’s alleged crimes. Virginia Giuffre, who said she was recruited by Epstein’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell, said in one of the first two episodes that the first time she was abused by Epstein, Maxwell assisted.

“The massage seemed legitimate at first. Ghislaine grabbed one foot, I grabbed the other, and she says, ‘You always wanna keep one hand on the body when you’re massaging somebody.’ And then he turns over and the entire thing changed,” recalled Giuffre, who committed suicide at the age of 41 at her farm outside Perth, Australia, on Thursday, April 24.

They commanded her to undress.

“I had these little girl undies on, like, little hearts on them, I remember, and they were laughing at that because they liked that. The younger you look, the better it is. So, I stripped down. Ghislaine stripped down. It turned very sexual. It was abuse right away from both of them.”

Epstein was arrested in July 2019 for allegedly sex trafficking girls as young as 14. He died almost a month after his arrest.

Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison at Florida Correctional Institution-Tallahassee on June 28, 2022. In addition to her prison sentence, she was fined $750,000.