Alan Dershowitz: Jeffrey Epstein may have ‘paid off’ prison guards to let him commit suicide

“I think he committed suicide,” Dershowitz said. “But, I think he may have paid off guards to allow him to commit suicide. It seems to me very difficult that he would’ve been allowed with video cameras off, cellmate taken out of the cell. I wouldn’t put it beyond him to have paid guards to close their eyes. I don’t think he could bear the possibility of having to spend the rest of his life in jail.”

Epstein, who was 66 and a wealthy financier, was arrested last July on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges for allegedly abusing girls as young as 14 years old. He was found dead in August while awaiting a trial at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, which is run by the federal Bureau of Prisons. His death was ruled a suicide by New York City’s chief medical examiner.

Epstein’s death came up this week during Attorney General William Barr’s testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee when a top Democrat accused the Justice Department of allowing “poorly trained” prison guards to let Epstein slip away from under their watch.

Two of Epstein’s prison guards were indicted on federal charges of conspiracy and filing false records. Barr also removed the Bureau of Prisons director following Epstein’s death.

Dershowitz, who brokered Epstein’s 2008 “sweetheart deal” pleading guilty to a state count of soliciting an underage prostitute, was on Carlson’s show to respond to being named in unsealed court documents stemming from Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s 2015 defamation lawsuit against Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Giuffre accused Dershowitz of having sex with her at Epstein and Maxwell’s direction when she was a minor and negotiating Epstein’s plea deal to help protect himself from criminal prosecution. Dershowitz denies her claims, going as far as to say he never even met Giuffre. Both are suing each other for defamation.