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A video without labels from the most recent Jeffrey Epstein files fall Since the Ministry of Justice circulating social media. While the 12-second video purports to show Epstein’s suicide in his prison cell, the previous document in the production clearly states that it is not from the DOJ itself.
“I came across an alleged video of Epstein’s suicide (leaked by an anonymous source),” the email read, referring to an attachment and linking to a Google Drive file. “Is this real???”
WIRED spoke with the owner of the phone number listed on the website included in the email signature. Ali Kabbaj, who identified himself as an independent journalist, said he found the video on the dark web and sent it to federal investigators in 2021 for confirmation. He says he never received a response.
“I’m shocked to be in these files,” he told WIRED.
The video first surfaced when Drop Site News shared it on as “a 12-second video from 4:29 a.m. on the day Jeffrey Epstein died.” Although this latest round of Epstein files is not yet on the DOJ website, they had apparently guessed the link by following the URL formatting of previous versions. WIRED identified the email associated with the video by following this same formatting to display the previous file.
The link to the video file on the DOJ website now appears broken, but the footage appears to match a video that appeared on YouTube in 2019. The person who uploaded the video describes its contents as “3D graphics rendering.” The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment on why the link no longer worked, but over the weekend the department deleted several other files from its website for additional review and writing.
In June 2023 report Regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s time in prison, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General concluded that there were no video cameras in Jeffrey Epstein’s cell. Indeed, on the night Epstein died, “recorded video evidence…for the SHU area where Epstein was housed was only available from a prison security camera due to a malfunction in New York’s MCC digital video recording system that occurred on July 29, 2019.” New York City’s chief medical examiner ruled Epstein’s death a suicide in August 2019.
Yet conspiracy theories have followed Epstein’s death, fueled in part by the circumstances in which the video evidence is available. In July, the DOJ released what it described as “completely raw” surveillance footage from the jail camera that was operational. As WIRED first reported, the metadata indicated that the rather, the images had been modified. Further analysis by WIRED revealed that the video was actually two clips stitched together, cut almost three minutes of sequences in the process.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act requires the DOJ to release all unclassified documents in its possession related to the investigation and prosecution of Epstein. So far, the files released by the DOJ include photos of Epstein’s island home and Manhattan home, Epstein associates including Ghislaine Maxwell and former US President Bill Clinton, as well as various travel documents and grand jury documents.
