NEW YORK — 2019 · Suspicious Death

The Death of Jeffrey Epstein in Custody

ClosedSources: ALast updated: 14 October 2026

Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, arrested in July 2019 on charges of sex trafficking of minors, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a federal jail in Manhattan, on the morning of 10 August 2019 while awaiting trial. The New York City medical examiner ruled the death a suicide. It emerged, however, that guards had not carried out required checks that night, some cameras were not working and his cellmate had been removed. Two guards were charged with falsifying records. In 2023 the Justice Department's Inspector General found serious negligence but no evidence of foul play. The death became the subject of some of the most widespread conspiracy theories in the United States.

Date: 2019
Place: New York, USA, New York, US
Category: Suspicious Death
Case Status: Closed
Coordinates: 40.7137, -74.0015 ↗

Timeline of Events

6 July 2019Epstein was arrested on federal charges.
10 August 2019He was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
16 August 2019The medical examiner ruled the death a suicide.
November 2019Two guards were charged with falsifying records.
June 2023The Inspector General's report documented serious negligence.

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