The Untold Story of Jeffrey Epstein’s Death
6/18/202641 min
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.
Guest: Charles Homans, a reporter covering national politics for The New York Times and The Times Magazine.
Background reading: Congressional action made possible the fullest examination of Epstein’s death, and The New York Times set out to do it.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
I gave my brother a New York Times subscription. We exchange articles.
Michael Barbaro· Host0:05
And so having read the same article, we can discuss it.
Speaker 10:07
She sent me a year-long subscription so I have access to all the games. The New York Times contributes to our quality time together. It enriches our relationship. It was such a, a cool and thoughtful gift. We're reading the same stuff. We're making the same food. We're on the same page.
Charles Homans· Guest0:24
Learn more about giving a New York Times subscription as a gift at nytimes.com/gift. Let me set the scene for you. It's late in the afternoon, July sixth, twenty nineteen. Jeffrey Epstein is flying back from Paris. He's on his private plane, and he's about to land at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, which is a small airport that's often used by wealthy people in New York for their private jets. He's making plans, including heading to his private island in the Caribbean. Eventually, his plane lands. A couple of customs agents come on board the plane to check his passport, the way they usually do with private planes. And then they ask him to come to the terminal, and he follows them. When he gets to the terminal, there's an FBI agent and an NYPD detective waiting for him, and they tell him that he's under arrest.