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It is really no surprise at all accused sex trafficker and one-time financier Jeffrey Epstein, who has been constantly in the news for the past several months, finally committed suicide.  Epstein was 66.  He had attempted it before.  Yesterday, there was a big document dump in the defamation case of a few years back, and a number of prominent men including Prince Andrew, former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, and even former Senate majority leader (in the 1990s)  George Mitchell were named in those documents.

The big question everybody has is where was the round-the-clock suicide watch since had already attempted suicide a few weeks ago?  He wasn't kidding he was going to do it.

There have been a host of rumors as to who was involved with the sex trafficking scandal with Epstein, who was a major political fundraiser.

Epstein hanged himself.  He was awaiting trial, which was scheduled for next year.

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On Friday, a federal appellate court in New York unsealed around 2,000 pages of documents from a now-settled civil defamation case between Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an alleged Epstein victim, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime Epstein associate.



Giuffre accused Maxwell of recruiting her while she was working as a locker-room attendant at Mar-A-Lago in 2000 and bringing her to Epstein's home for a massage. She claims that she eventually became a teen sex slave to Epstein, and a victim of sex trafficking, beginning at age 17, at the hands of both Epstein and Maxwell.

The newly-unsealed documents showed that Giuffre alleged that Epstein and Maxwell directed her to have sex with, among others: Prince Andrew; criminal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz; former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson; former Senator George Mitchell; a well-known prime minster, who she wouldn't name; and a foreign man who was introduced to her as a "prince."

Some idiots on Twitter are claiming Epstein was yet another body in the "Clinton body count" even though there is NO evidence whatsoever Bill Clinton, or, for that matter, Donald Trump, had anything to do with the Epstein scandals.

New York Times:

It was not immediately clear on Saturday whether the authorities had put in additional safeguards to watch him after the incident.

The federal Bureau of Prisons did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Mr. Epstein’s defense team — the lawyers Reid Weingarten, Marty Weinberg and Michael Miller — said in a statement that they could not confirm his cause of death and trusted it would be investigated by the United States Attorney’s office and the United States Marshals Service.

“We are enormously sorry to learn of today’s news. No one should die in jail,” they said.

A cache of previously sealed legal documents, released on Friday by a federal appeals court, provided new, disturbing details about what was going on inside Mr. Epstein’s homes and how his associates recruited young women and girls, including from a Florida high school.

Now we are going to be treated with thousands of conspiracy theories for the next five hundred years.

Epstein may be dead, but his victims deserve to get justice, though just how that would happen is a mystery at this point.

In all likelihood, nothing will ever come out of it outside of what has already been released.  Most of what was released was part of a civil action, and those are held to a far lower standard than a criminal case.  People can even lie in depositions although they are not supposed to since it is technically perjury.

Edit:  For the record is the three-part Miami Herald investigation of Epstein.