A fake video purporting to show Jeffrey Epstein taking his own life inside a prison cell made rounds on social media after it was spotted in the Justice Department’s massive file dump.
A grainy 12-second clip shows a white-haired man in an orange prison jumpsuit kneeling on the floor of a prison cell while seemingly trying to choke himself. The video was timestamped 4:29 a.m. on Aug. 10, 2019, just two hours before Epstein was found dead with a noose around his neck at the Metropolitan Correctional Facility in New York.
But the clip has been on YouTube since 2020, with the original poster indicating in the caption that they created the video by playing around with “rendering 3D graphics.” An administration official also confirmed to the New York Post that the clip is bogus. It has since been taken down from the DOJ website.
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