Missing minute of Jeffrey Epstein’s death tape has ‘been found’

The so-called missing minute of surveillance footage from the night Jeffrey Epstein was found dead of suspected suicide may not be missing at all, it has been claimed.

Earlier this month, the US Justice Department (DOJ) released nearly 11 hours of surveillance video from the prison where Epstein was said to have committed suicide in 2019.

However, the time code at the bottom left corner of the video jumps from just before 11.59pm to midnight.

Attorney General Pam Bondi blamed it on outdated technology 'from 1999' and a tape transition, which occurs automatically every night.

But things have taken another twist after 'a source familiar with the investigation' told the Daily Mail that the DOJ and FBI both have the 'raw footage' of the missing minute.

Why does the Jeffrey Epstein prison tape matter?

Well, you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to have doubts about how the whole Epstein saga has been handled.

Just days after the DOJ and FBI said there was no evidence of an 'Epstein client list', President Donald Trump made a massive U-turn by ordering the release of some files. Two judges denied the motion, citing US law, as Republicans called for 'transparency'.

Although Trump has continued to distance himself from Epstein after their friendship in the late 90s and early 2000s, politicians and even Republican supporters are asking him to release everything.

The Trump administration has been criticised because the files could implicate high-profile individuals and answer why they hung out with a convicted sex offender on trial for trafficking young girls to 'Epstein island'.

Officially, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, City of New York, determined that Epstein had died by suicide, and that there was no evidence of criminality.

Yet conspiracy theorists speculate whether he was murdered in his cell, given that very wealthy and powerful people went to his island, and perhaps didn't want him 'to snitch'.

What's the latest on the Epstein files?

The minute missing from Jeffrey Epstein's surveillance footage may have been found (Kypros/Getty Images)

Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend, was recently interviewed by the Justice Department, and we don't know what was said.

She is currently serving a 20-year-prison sentence in a Florida federal prison for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse underage girls.

On Tuesday (29 July), Trump said the paedophile took prominent accuser Virginia Giuffre - who died by suicide at her farm in Western Australia aged 41 - and other young women from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

"The answer is yes, they were in the spa," he told reporters. "I told him, I said, 'Listen, we don't want you taking our people, whether it was spa or not spa'. And he was fine. And then not too long after that, he did it again."

When he was asked if Giuffre was one of the employees poached by Epstein, he replied: "I think she worked at the spa... I think so. I think that was one of the people. He stole her, and by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever."