A lot of people seem to believe that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls in order to videotape them having sex with rich and powerful people as compromat for an intelligence agency, perhaps Mossad, and that he was murdered in prison to cover up the loose end.

While I cannot prove that this is not true, there is almost no evidence for this story. The evidence points to a simpler story: Jeffrey Epstein was a socialite and financier who had connections with lots of famous and powerful people, and he also liked having sex with minors and so he recruited minors so that he could have sex with them. Several famous people also took the opportunity to have sex with minors facilitated by Epstein, but not as videotaped compromat. The second time he was imprisoned for it he committed suicide by strangulation.

The hyoid bone can be fractured by hanging, but more often by strangulation, and the description of Epstein's body as found is more like strangulation. You can commit suicide by strangulation (please don't).

The strange occurance of the camera being off, the cell not being monitored, could have been guards who were turning their backs to let him commit suicide ("fucking pedo should die, let's let him do it."). Papers related to Epstein said he was a suicide risk prior to his death. US Attorneys office offered a plea deal to the correctional officers if they claim they fell asleep, who rejected it claiming they did nothing wrong, but clearly the Justice Department suspected the guards.

Earlier on July 23 Epstein attempted suicide, which put him on suicide watch. But Epstein's attorney argued against it and he was taken off suicide watch but stull was supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes. So the bedsheets were not toilet paper in this cell as some claim.

The claim that Alexander Acosta said "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone" has only one source, an editorial in The Daily Beast by Vicky Ward who says it came from an interview she did with a former senior White House official and this is what she claims Accosta told the Trump team. It is not in court documents or congressional testimony from Accosta as far as I can tell, and regarding it Accosta said "I would hesitate to take this reporting as fact."

Maxwell is in prison for assisting Epstein in recruiting underaged girls for sex with Epstein.

The famous people that various girls claimed were involved in sex acts in this situation may or may not have been. The evidence doesn't strongly favor either side.

I have found no evidence of video tapes recovered from the Island with the names of famous people on their labels. I vaguely remember seeing it in a video way back when, but either I am mistaken or the Internet has been scrubbed of such a thing. If anybody has it, please share. I'm currently assuming this was a myth at the time and never happened.

The conspiracy theory was fun, but it is too flimsy.