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The chilling 12-second video shows a white-haired man wearing an orange jumpsuit kneeling at the base of a bunk bed and appearing to struggle violently. A timestamp on the footage reads 4:29 am on August 10, 2019, roughly two hours before Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell.
The video bore the label J Epstein in one corner and was added to the DOJ's online document.(Photo: X)
New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 23, 2025 05:29 IST
The US Department of Justice caused controversy by releasing a video that appears to show Jeffrey Epstein attempting to take his own life inside a Manhattan jail cell. According to the New York Post, the video clip was quietly posted to the Justice Department’s website without an explanation as part of a set of documents and images released as the Epstein investigative files.
The chilling 12-second video shows a white-haired man wearing an orange jumpsuit kneeling at the base of a bunk bed and appearing to struggle violently. A timestamp on the footage reads 4:29 am on August 10, 2019, roughly two hours before Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre.
The video bore the label J Epstein in one corner and was added to the DOJ's online document dump that began last Friday.
CLIP SUSPECTED TO BE FAKE
However, the New York Post reported that the video was a fake clip that circulated on 4chan. A Florida conspiracy theorist allegedly alerted investigators to the altered footage, after which the Justice Department abruptly removed it.
The department has also not clarified on the matter.
This comes a day after the Justice Department briefly removed and then restored a photograph featuring President Donald Trump from the Jeffrey Epstein files. The removal was due to concerns about victim privacy, not the president himself, according to officials.
US authorities have repeatedly said that Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. However, his death has fuelled years of scepticism and conspiracy theories, amplified by surveillance failures and lapses in jail oversight.
Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, had rejected the suicide finding, alleging that the financier was murdered. The DOJ has not addressed those claims in connection with the newly released video.
DOJ DISCLOSURES ON EPSTEIN FILES
The Epstein Files have included a trove of documents, photographs, and video material connected to the convicted sex offender, some of it deeply disturbing. Previous releases have featured images of Epstein with underage girls and footage from inside properties investigators described as central to his abuse network.
Several of the records feature Epstein alongside his longtime associate, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell was charged with recruiting underage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse. She was convicted in late 2021 and is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
The file dump also includes video clips from inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York from the day Epstein died by suicide. Those clips had been released earlier, and federal officials have long said they show no one entering the area outside Epstein’s cell before he was found dead.
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Published By:
Satyam Singh
Published On:
Dec 23, 2025
