Nearly three minutes of ‘raw’ footage taken from Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night he died appear to have been cut out.
Independent video forensic experts have determined that the first of two files previously found to have been stitched together into the ‘full raw’ CCTV footage is missing 2 minutes and 53 seconds.
It is not known what the trimmed minutes showed.
The missing minutes were reported by WIRED, which analysed video metadata and ran it by experts.
After the Justice Department and FBI last week released the footage meant to carry out the Trump administration’s plan to fully investigate Epstein’s death, the magazine discovered that it consisted of two separate videos melded together in Adobe Premiere Pro.
The new finding of the several unaccounted for minutes could have to do with a nearly one-minute gap that US Attorney General Pam Bondi has blamed on a nightly system reset. The gap in the video occurs from 11.58.58pm to 12.00.00am.
Metadata shows that the first clip from August 9, 2019, continued for a few minutes longer, but was instead cut at 11.58.58pm before the jump, according to WIRED. Meanwhile, the second file starts at midnight, which could mean that the two clips would overlap.
The mystery around the missing minutes comes as the Trump administration faces blowback from lawmakers and even the president’s MAGA base on their handling of the Epstein files.
Along with the video, the Justice Department and FBI released a two-page memo stating they did not find an incriminating Epstein client list after doing an extensive review.
Bondi months ago had said that the convicted sex offender and ex-financier’s list of alleged accomplices was ‘sitting on (her) desk right now to review’.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly told the public not to waste time on the Epstein files. On Wednesday, he blasted Democrats and some of his fellow Republicans, writing on his Truth Social platform: ‘Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.’
As conspiracy theories fly anew around the video, many eyes are also on Epstein’s former lover and employee, Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell, who is serving time for a child sex trafficking conviction, has reportedly indicated she is willing to testify before Congress on Epstein’s client list.
Maxwell’s former prison dormmate earlier this week shared a chilling take on what her fate could ultimately be, suggesting that the disgraced British socialite’s life could be in danger.
‘Just putting this out there: I know Ghislaine Maxwell personally when I was in prison with her. She isn’t suicidal in the least,’ wrote Jessica Watkins on X on Monday.
‘There are also virtually no working cameras in FCI Tallahassee. Just getting ahead of potential narratives.’
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