Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘client list’ explained after FBI claims it doesn’t exist
The FBI have revealed that paedophile Jeffrey Epstein did not have a ‘client list’ of associates – months after the Attorney General said the list was sitting on her desk.
The bombshell announcement was made six years after the disgraced financier died from suicide in prison in 2019, prompting wide-ranging conspiracy theories and allegations.
President Donald Trump, who was long rumoured to be among the clients listed in Epstein’s files, promised to release the information about Epstein once in office again.
In February this year, US Attorney General Pam Bondi said the names of people on flight logs to Epstein’s sickening private island would be released.
When asked at the time about the list of Epstein’s clients, Bondi said: ‘It’s sitting on my desk right now to review. That’s been a directive by President Trump.’
The government appears to have done a 180 on their promise to release Epstein information once Trump was back in office.
The bombshell announcement that the list doesn’t actually exist comes weeks after Elon Musk claimed Trump’s name was in the Epstein files, which the president had then refused to release, claiming it was the real reason the files had not been made public.
The accusation raised eyebrows, especially considering Trump and Epstein’s friendship, which is well-documented and goes back decades.
But it appears the US government is ready to put rumours about Epstein to rest for good with the latest announcement.
What is the Jeffrey Epstein client list?
Epstein’s ‘list’ is a long-rumoured dossier of names of people – famous politicians and celebrities – who were ‘clients’ of Epstein.
It was alleged that those on the list flew to Epstein’s notorious private island in the US Virgin Islands, where alleged human trafficking and sex abuse took place.
The FBI and Department of Justice announced yesterday that there was ‘no incriminating list’ of clients, and no evidence that Epstein blackmailed prominent people on the alleged list.
In the years since Epstein’s death, multiple ‘leaks’ of the alleged list were shared online – one naming Prince Andrew, Michael Jackson, Bill Clinton and Stephen Hawking as some of the 187 involved.
Those names were recently revealed after US Judge Loretta Preska ruled in December 2023 that documents naming the individuals be unsealed and made public.
How did Jeffrey Epstein die?
In yesterday’s announcement, the government also said it had been confirmed that Epstein died by suicide in his prison cell in 2019.
The announcement will quash any speculation, including that from FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino, who previously questioned Epstein’s death.
This week, Epstein’s final moments on CCTV outside his prison cell were released. The video, hosted on the Department for Justice website, shows the night he died in a Manhattan jail in 2019.
It is said to show Epstein in an orange jumpsuit being led to his cell in New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Centre by a guard, who then walks away.
Authorities say the footage shows no one entered the area where he was being held, so he could not have been murdered in a bid to silence him speaking out.
But conspiracies and speculation continue to swirl, with recent claims from Elon Musk that explosive files are still under wraps but ‘the truth will come out’ only fuelling theories.
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