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ABC News
ABC News
27 Jun 2023
ABC News


Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself in his jail cell with an orange noose he fashioned from "a sheet or a shirt," according to a new report issued Tuesday.

The Justice Department's Inspector General report details the failures that occurred beginning one month before the disgraced financier's death in Bureau of Prisons custody.

PHOTO: Jeffrey Epstein is pictured in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 8, 2004.
Jeffrey Epstein is pictured in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 8, 2004.
Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images, FILE

When officers discovered Epstein in his cell on Aug. 10, 2019, Officer Michael Thomas, who was charged criminally in the case, said, "Breathe, Epstein, Breathe," according to the report.

When Thomas saw Epstein dangling from the bed, he said, "We're going to be in a lot of trouble," according to the report.

When Epstein's room was searched after his death, investigators found extra bedsheets, another mattress and a noose, according to the report.

PHOTO: The Metropolitan Correctional Center stands in Manhattan, Aug. 14, 2019. Kenyan national Cholo Abdi Abdullah was arraigned via phone while being held at the MCC in New York, Dec. 16, 2020.
The Metropolitan Correctional Center stands in Manhattan, Aug. 14, 2019. Kenyan national Cholo Abdi Abdullah was arraigned via phone while being held at the MCC in New York, Dec. 16, 2020.
LightRocket via Getty Images, FILE

Epstein died by hanging at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center while he was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.

Epstein first attempted suicide in custody on July 23, 2019, and the Inspector General report said Bureau of Prisons employees should have been put on alert then.

On July 30, the Inspector General said an email was sent to 70 staffers of the prison physiological unit instructing that Epstein was to be housed with a cellmate. But the Inspector General said that warning went unheeded by Bureau of Prisons staff.

PHOTO: Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry, March 28, 2017.
Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry, March 28, 2017.
New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services via Reuters, FILE

The report is coupled with nearly 4,000 pages of documents obtained by reporters earlier this month under a Freedom of Information Act request.

The documents show that toward the end of his life, Epstein sat alone in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, repeatedly calling himself a coward out loud.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of Epstein, was convicted in December 2021 of conspiring with Epstein to recruit, groom and abuse minors and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.