Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 death was a suicide with no outside involvement, a Department of Justice report has ruled today after years of rampant conspiracy theories questioning why the notorious, well-connected pedophile was able to take his own life while in custody.
Epstein killed himself in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. He hanged himself using 'excess' prison linens which he should never have had.
At the time, Epstein was charged with recruiting underage girls for his own sexual gratification and entangling them in an international operation where he paid them and, in some cases, held them against their will.
There were rampant rumors, fueled in part by Epstein's legal team, that his suicide may have been aided by an outside party to cover up others' roles in his crimes.