Epstein Death Bombshell: DOJ Releases Video of Pedo Appearing to Attempt Suicide... As Questions Over Its Authenticity Spread
A video released by the Department of Justice appeared to show Jeffrey Epstein committing suicide.
Dec. 22 2025, Updated 5:53 p.m. ET
An apparently fake video that appeared to show Jeffrey Epstein committing suicide somehow made its way into the Epstein file dump, RadarOnline.com can report, and onto the official Department of Justice website.
The brief 12-second clip featured a person in a prison cell rocking back and forth suspiciously, and vanished almost immediately after its discovery went viral.
The video has been widely questioned already.
The video had a timestamp from 4:29 a.m. on August 10, 2019, the day Epstein was found dead in his cell. It was discovered in the DOJ's Epstein Library "DataSet 8" without any official explanation.
The clip features a gray-haired man in an orange jumpsuit shaking his head around, possibly while strangling himself.
However, there were numerous immediate doubts and inconsistencies in the footage. For instance, online sleuths immediately deduced the door to the jail cell did not match the one in Epstein’s real cell.
Within minutes of its discovery online, Justice Department officials removed the video and replaced it with a broken page and a message that reads: "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it."
Social Media Outrage
The video was included in the Epstein files release.
Radar has confirmed the footage dates back to a YouTube post from October 1, 2020. In the comments section, viewers were shocked the DOJ "fell for it."
"There’s no f------ way we live in the timeline where the US Department of Justice releases 5-year-old AI videos as official evidence," one person commented.
Another echoed: "Are we seriously living in a timeline where the US government is uploading YouTube animations and passing them off as real?"
While a third blasted: "Love how the feds took this s--- and put it in the files, but forgot to tell YouTube to delete this one."
Radar has reached out to the Department of Justice for comment.
Questions About Epstein's Death
Epstein was found dead in his cell in 2019.
The long-standing story is that Epstein hanged himself in his prison cell in 2019, as he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. However, some are certain the financier was killed to keep him from spilling his secrets, and the names on his "list."
Even Epstein's lover and fixer, Ghislaine Maxwell, is convinced he was targeted behind bars. According to Maxwell's brother, Ian, she believes her former boyfriend did not take his own life.
Ian said: "Ghislaine believes he was murdered, and certainly there were murderers on the wing of the prison where Epstein was held."
As wild allegations continue, Ian has also claimed the financier could have even paid someone to kill him, and he also believes he was murdered.
"It's a theory that can't be discounted," Ian added. Ian also brought attention to the "strange object" found in the pedophile's cell, which was a "wire flex from a CPAP machine."
In addition to the object, forensic opinions claimed Epstein's injuries were more consistent with homicide than suicidal strangulation.
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Ghislaine Maxwell said her former lover was killed in jail.
After Epstein's death, the official ruling from the NYC medical examiner was suicide by hanging, but the public continues to have doubts.
Just days before Epstein was found dead in his cell, he had been taken off suicide watch by a doctoral-level psychologist, the Justice Department said in a letter to Congress.
After he was found in his cell with marks on his neck in July, he was placed on suicide watch, but he "was later removed from suicide watch after being evaluated by a doctoral-level psychologist who determined that a suicide watch was no longer warranted."
