An author who was in touch with Jeffrey Epstein up until the time of his death has revealed the haunting last message he sent before being found dead.
Author Michael Wolff has shared what he believes to be the last text message from disgraced financier paedophile Epstein.
Wolff told the Daily Beast he had been texting Epstein, through the financier’s lawyer, just hours before he was found dead from suspected suicide.
‘His message to me hours before this happened was – and it was just in response to me asking how he was – and he said, ‘Still hanging around,” Wolff recalled.
The message is even more haunting given Epstein was found hanging in his jail cell, sparking conspiracy theories about whether it was an ‘inside job’, given the notoriety of his criminal case.
Wolff had known Epstein for years before his arrest, and maintains that Epstein could not have killed himself.
But he added: ‘As the circumstances presented, he could not have been murdered.’
Earlier this week, the FBI also revealed Epstein did not have his long-rumoured ‘client list’ of associates, just months after the Attorney General claimed a copy was sitting on her desk.
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.
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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