DOJ releases shocking fake video of Jeffrey Epstein suicide as part of file dump

The DOJ released shocking footage Monday that appeared to be a reenactment of Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide in his Manhattan jail cell — and briefly set the Internet ablaze until it was proven to be false.

The video was posted without explanation on the Justice Department’s website as part of its Epstein case – the footage being just the latest item in a trove of documents and images that will be revealed after the full trove is ordered in November.

The grainy, 12-second, computer-generated clip showed a white-haired man in an orange jumpsuit struggling and shaking his head as he kneeled at the foot of a prison cell bunk bed.

The timestamp on the video was 4:29 a.m. on August 10, 2019, two hours before the pedophile’s body was found in his cell that day at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

The scene in the video appeared to match Epstein’s cell, where authorities determined he had hanged himself while awaiting trial on a litany of sex trafficking charges.

But a closer look at the clip showed that things weren’t quite right: with a pile of orange prison clothes scattered on the floor looking like puddles without any texture, and the door to the prison cell didn’t match the door to Epstein’s locked compartment.

It was quickly revealed in another abandoned document that the clip was actually a fake video that was circulating on 4chan and had been flagged by investigators by a Florida conspiracy theorist.

A Trump administration official later confirmed to the Post that the video was fake and had been on YouTube for years. It was finally removed from the DOJ site on Monday.

But his appearance had already sparked renewed interest online, with many viewers believing that footage of Epstein’s death had finally been revealed.

That would run counter to investigators’ long-standing narrative that cameras monitoring Epstein’s cell malfunctioned the night he died and that no footage existed.

The lack of video has been a major source of conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s death, with some people using it to fuel stories that the once-powerful disgraced financier was murdered by dark forces.

Those fires were stoked during Epstein’s first filing earlier this year, when a clip filmed outside Epstein’s cell block on the night of his death was finally released — but was missing a minute just before midnight.

The DOJ insisted that everything was fine and that the so-called “missing minute” was simply the result of the jail’s camera system being retrained. A version was eventually released to show that nothing nefarious happened during those 60 seconds.

Epstein was on suicide watch before he died, but he was taken away and was supposed to have a cellmate living with him.

His cellmate was transferred just a day before Epstein’s death.

The two guards who were supposed to be watching him at the time of his death were also sleeping while on duty and later admitted to falsifying the reports to hide their mistake.

While a medical examiner determined Epstein died by hanging, an independent autopsy arranged by the devil’s brother suggested he suffered a broken neck that tends to occur in strangulation murders.

All of these details have fueled conspiracy theories since Epstein’s death – despite extensive investigations and thousands of abandoned files revealing no widespread cover-up or smoking gun.

Congress voted in November for the Justice Department to release all of its Epstein files, with President Trump – who flip-flopped on the issue after winning re-election – signing the bill within days.

The dossier spill began last week and has so far revealed dozens of photos – including alarming images of Epstein canoodling with very young girls – but so far no evidence of a conspiracy has emerged.

If you are having suicidal thoughts or experiencing a mental health crisis and live in New York City, you can call 1-888-NYC-WELL for free, confidential crisis counseling. If you live outside the five boroughs, you can call the 24/7 National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 988 or go to SuicidePreventionLifeline.org.