{"id":193005,"date":"2019-08-10T13:43:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T13:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193005"},"modified":"2019-08-12T06:54:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T06:54:42","slug":"jeffrey-epstein-killed-himself-in-prison-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193005","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in prison, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Guardian \u2013 Aug 10, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein has killed himself in prison, according to a media report by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juliamacfarlane\/status\/1160172238475337728\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">ABC News<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide overnight at MCC Manhattan, the federal lockup where he had been held pending trial on federal sex trafficking charges, three law enforcement officials told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ABC<\/a> News. Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AaronKatersky?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AaronKatersky<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Julia Macfarlane ? (@juliamacfarlane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juliamacfarlane\/status\/1160172238475337728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Epstein, 66, had been accused of sex trafficking and was being held without bail in jail after being arrested on 6 July. He pleaded <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jul\/15\/jeffrey-epstein-latest-house-arrest-request\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">not guilty<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to the charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">His death comes a day after <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/aug\/09\/ghislaine-maxwell-lawsuit-files-jeffrey-epstein\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">unsealed documents in New York<\/a><\/strong><\/span> revealed the extent of his abuse of young women at his home in Palm Beach, New York and the Virgin Islands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Epstein had been held since he was arrested on charges relating to alleged sexual misconduct from at least 2002 to 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">An earlier attempt to prosecute him on similar charges collapsed when authorities granted him an unusually generous deal to plead guilty to state prostitution charges in Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">His death comes just days after he was found unconscious in a Manhattan jail cell with injuries to his neck, US media had reported, citing unidentified sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It was not clear how he suffered those injuries. Two anonymous sources told New York\u2019s local <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/Jeffrey-Epstein-Found-Injured-in-NYC-Jail-Cell-After-Possible-Suicide-Attempt-or-Assault-Sources-513174311.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">NBC News 4<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that Epstein\u2019s injuries may have been self-inflicted, while another said an assault by another inmate had not been ruled out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">After the incident, Epstein was placed on suicide watch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/aug\/10\/jeffrey-epstein-dead-prison-report-latest\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As others have noted Epstein was supposed to be on &#8220;suicide watch&#8221;, but this is what happens when a servant of the elite becomes a liability.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-historic-sexual-abuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193005"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193012,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193005\/revisions\/193012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}