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Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide - medical examiner
Published time: 16 Aug, 2019 20:21 Edited time: 16 Aug, 2019 20:35
New York’s chief medical examiner has ruled that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide by hanging in his jail cell, six days after the accused billionaire was found dead in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.
The death of the registered sex offender and a friend to presidents and royalty prompted many speculations that it might have been a murder.
Epstein, who was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, appears to have fashioned a noose out of a bedsheet and hung himself from a bunk bed in his cell, fracturing several bones in his neck, officials told the New York Times.
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The Manhattan billionaire killed himself just days after being taken off suicide watch at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, following an earlier apparent attempt to take his own life. Guards on watch at the facility reportedly left Epstein unsupervised for longer than prison regulations require.
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