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The Daily

The Untold Story of Jeffrey Epstein’s Death

The Daily

The New York Times

News, Daily News

4.3107.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Warning: This episode discusses suicide. Hours after Jeffrey Epstein arrived at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, an employee expressed concern over his distraught state, saying in an email to the jail staff, “just to be on the safe side and prevent any suicidal thoughts can someone from Psychology come and talk with him.” The reporter Charles Homans details The New York Times’s major new investigation, which tries to answer the question: Did the world’s most powerful and well-connected sex offender die by his own hand or by somebody else’s? If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let me set the scene for you.

0:03.4

It's late in the afternoon, July 6th, 2019.

0:08.3

Jeffrey Epstein is flying back from Paris.

0:11.1

He's on his private plane,

0:13.5

and he's about to land at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey,

0:17.1

which is a small airport that's often used by wealthy people in New York for their private jets.

0:23.1

He's making plans, including heading to his private island in the Caribbean.

0:29.3

Eventually, his plane lands.

0:32.0

A couple of customs agents come on board the plane to check his passport,

0:35.8

the way they usually do with private planes.

0:39.4

And then they ask him to come to the terminal, and he follows them.

0:46.5

When he gets to the terminal, there's an FBI agent and an NYPD detective waiting for him.

0:54.8

And they tell him that he's under arrest.

1:02.3

Epstein appears shocked by this.

1:06.1

And in the car on the way it's Manhattan with the agents,

1:10.6

he asked them two questions.

1:13.5

One is, is this sex trafficking?

1:17.7

And the other is, is this about underage?

1:24.0

Epstein's taken that night to the Metropolitan Correctional Center,

1:31.0

the big federal jail in lower Manhattan, the MCC.

1:42.4

And he's only been there for a matter of hours when one of the jail employees notices him and sees this guy who seems distraught and sad and a little confused.

1:48.7

She's concerned enough that she sits down and writes an email to the jail staff.

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