""Came across a purported video of Epstein's suicide (leaked by anonymous source)," the email reads, referencing an attachment and linking to a Google Drive file. "Is this real???" WIRED spoke with the owner of the phone number listed on the website included in the email's signature. Ali Kabbaj, who identified himself as an independent journalist, said that he found the video on the dark web and sent it to federal investigators in 2021 for confirmation. He says he never got a reply."
"WIRED identified the email associated with the video by following that same formatting to view the preceding file. The link to the video file on the DOJ's website now seems to be broken, but the footage appears to match a video that appeared on YouTube in 2019. The person who uploaded the video describes its contents as "rendering 3D graphics." DOJ did not return an immediate request for comment on why the link was no longer working, but over the weekend, the department removed several other files from its website for additional review and redaction."
An unlabeled 12-second video claiming to show Jeffrey Epstein's suicide circulated after a DOJ files release, but a preceding document indicates the file did not originate from the Department of Justice. An accompanying email linked to a Google Drive clip and cited an anonymous source; the sender said he found the footage on the dark web and sent it to federal investigators in 2021 but received no response. The clip was shared on social platforms by Drop Site News. The DOJ link later became broken, the footage appears to match a 2019 YouTube upload described as "rendering 3D graphics," and the DOJ removed several files for further review. A June 2023 DOJ Office of Inspector General report concluded there was no video camera in Epstein's cell.
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