FBI Leaders Say Video Shows Jeffrey Epstein Died by Suicide, Will Release Footage

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino on Thursday repeated his assertion that notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died from suicide and said that the bureau will release a video of the August 2019 incident.

In an interview with Fox News, Bongino said that surveillance video footage at the jail where Epstein was housed showed that no one entered his cell at the time of his suicide. No forensic evidence showed that another person was in the cell or present at that time, he added.

“There’s no DNA, there’s no audio, there’s no fingerprints, there’s no suspects, there’s no accomplices, there’s no tips, there is nothing,” Bongino told Fox News. “If you have it, I’m happy to see it.”

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Regarding the Epstein video, Bongino said it is “clear as day” and that the disgraced financier is “the only person in there and the only person coming out” of the cell.

“We are working on cleaning it up to make sure you have an enhanced [version of the video] and we’re going to give the original so you don’t think there were any shenanigans,” he told Fox.

Due to Epstein’s connections with high-level politicians, business leaders, royal family members, and other luminaries, there has been widespread speculation that the manner and cause of death wasn’t a suicide.

After his death, Epstein’s brother, Mark, told media outlets that he believes it wasn’t a suicide. Former New York City medical examiner Michael Baden, who was hired by Mark Epstein to observe the Epstein autopsy in 2019, said it showed he likely died via homicide, fueling further speculation.

No video footage of Epstein being inside the New York City jail cell has ever been released to the public.

On Wednesday evening, FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News’ Bret Baier that Epstein died by suicide and vowed to release more details about the case.

“We are diligently working on that,” Patel told Fox. “It takes time to go through years of investigations.”

Earlier this week, Bongino said in a post on the X social media platform that the FBI is re-investigating several unsolved cases, including pipe bombs left at the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee buildings in Washington a day before Jan. 6, 2021.

Other cases that will be reevaluated include the leaking of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 to overturn Roe v. Wade and a case involving a bag of cocaine that was found in the White House in 2023, he said.

In the Thursday interview, Bongino said the FBI is close to solving one of those cases but didn’t elaborate.

“We got a fascinating tip on one of these cases, one of the three,” the deputy director said. “We’re going to run it out. We’re not going to be able to make that public, obviously, right away, because we have to make sure.”

Meanwhile, he said that he found an FBI room that contained evidence from former FBI Director James Comey’s era that was “hidden from us” but didn’t go into details.

Patel said in his Fox News interview Wednesday that the agency will provide a “definite answer” on whether there were FBI sources or agents present during the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. Without going into specifics, the FBI director added that the bureau’s findings may “surprise and shock people because of what past FBI leaders have said about it.”

Before Bongino became the FBI’s No. 2 in charge, he was a radio host who had said on multiple occasions that he believed that Epstein killed himself. In February 2025, Bongino said that a reporter had told him about the existence of tapes used by Epstein to blackmail powerful people.

Correction: A previous version of this article misstated the status of Epstein’s sex trafficking charges. The Epoch Times regrets the error.