Harrowing new images have emerged from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, showing the disgraced financier semi-unconscious in his prison cell with a makeshift noose around his neck. The photographs, dated 23 July 2019 and released by the US Department of Justice as part of ongoing file disclosures, capture Epstein curled in the foetal position on the floor of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, breathing heavily and snoring.
The orange cloth noose lay nearby, marking what prison logs described as a 'possible suicide attempt' – an event just weeks before his death on 10 August 2019.
