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The convicted pedophile and disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in his cell in prison in New York.
Epstein, 66, had been charged with sex trafficking underage girls over allegations he procured a sting of young women as young as 14 for his wealthy and powerful friends.
The New York Times reported that Epstein, who once boasted high-profile friends including Prince Andrew, hanged himself in his cell at the Manhattan Correctional Center.
At 7.30am a gurney carrying a man who looked like Epstein was wheeled out of the jail, the New York Post reported.
Epstein had faced a trial on the sex trafficking charges next year, with a possible 45-year prison sentence if convicted.
On Frida, following months of legal wrangling, a Manhattan court released 1,200 pages of documents detailing lurid claims of the alleged abuse carried out by Epstein on teenage girls.
The files related to the separate civil case of Giuffre v Maxwell, in which Virginia Giuffre, claimed to have been the US *businessman’s teenage “sex slave”.
The unsealed papers - which made international news on Friday - implicated a number of high-profile men in sex scandals.
In a May 3, 2016 deposition, Giuffre alleged that she was trafficked by the pair to have sex with and provide erotic massages for politicians and affluent businessmen.
Giuffre claimed that she was 'instructed' by Maxwell to have sex with both two high powered Democrats - former Senate Majority George Mitchell and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson - and Prince Andrew.
Buckingham Palace denied the claims.
Epstein was said to have been on 'suicide watch', although The New York Times reports that it is now unclear whether additional measures had been put in place to ensure the pedophile did not try to take his own life for a second time.
Last month he had been found unconscious in his cell in what appeared to have been a suicide attempt.
Epstein, who was arrested on July 6, had pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of underage girls from at least 2002 to 2005.
The charges were announced more than a decade after Epstein pleaded guilty to state prostitution charges in Florida.
He was confined in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan while he appealed a district judge's refusal to let him live under 24-hour guard in his home on the Upper East Side.
The convicted pedophile and disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in his cell in prison in New York.
Epstein, 66, had been charged with sex trafficking underage girls over allegations he procured a sting of young women as young as 14 for his wealthy and powerful friends.
The New York Times reported that Epstein, who once boasted high-profile friends including Prince Andrew, hanged himself in his cell at the Manhattan Correctional Center.
At 7.30am a gurney carrying a man who looked like Epstein was wheeled out of the jail, the New York Post reported.
Epstein had faced a trial on the sex trafficking charges next year, with a possible 45-year prison sentence if convicted.
On Frida, following months of legal wrangling, a Manhattan court released 1,200 pages of documents detailing lurid claims of the alleged abuse carried out by Epstein on teenage girls.
The files related to the separate civil case of Giuffre v Maxwell, in which Virginia Giuffre, claimed to have been the US *businessman’s teenage “sex slave”.
The unsealed papers - which made international news on Friday - implicated a number of high-profile men in sex scandals.
In a May 3, 2016 deposition, Giuffre alleged that she was trafficked by the pair to have sex with and provide erotic massages for politicians and affluent businessmen.
Giuffre claimed that she was 'instructed' by Maxwell to have sex with both two high powered Democrats - former Senate Majority George Mitchell and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson - and Prince Andrew.
Buckingham Palace denied the claims.
Epstein was said to have been on 'suicide watch', although The New York Times reports that it is now unclear whether additional measures had been put in place to ensure the pedophile did not try to take his own life for a second time.
Last month he had been found unconscious in his cell in what appeared to have been a suicide attempt.
Epstein, who was arrested on July 6, had pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of underage girls from at least 2002 to 2005.
The charges were announced more than a decade after Epstein pleaded guilty to state prostitution charges in Florida.
He was confined in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan while he appealed a district judge's refusal to let him live under 24-hour guard in his home on the Upper East Side.