An associate of the late Jeffrey Epstein was found dead inside his Connecticut apartment by police on Tuesday, according to a report.
Police in Derby found Steven Hoffenberg, 77, lying on his bedroom floor, with his body in a state of decomposition, requiring a medical examiner to confirm the man’s identity, the Daily Mail reported on Thursday.
The Derby Police Department has not confirmed the body is Hoffenberg’s, but the office did say it would provide an update when more information is known.
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Derby police said in a post to social media that it sent officers to an apartment on Tuesday in response to a requested welfare check, where they found a white male’s body “in a state where a visual identification could not be made.” The body was transported to the office of the chief medical examiner, where an autopsy was performed on Wednesday.
Prior to his death, Hoffenberg had served 18 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme. Hoffenberg had claimed the scheme was masterminded by Epstein, who was never charged.
In February, Jean-Luc Brunel, a friend and associate of Epstein, was found dead in a French prison cell. Prison officials claim that Brunel, a French modeling scout and manager who was being investigated for the alleged rape and sexual abuse of teenage girls, had killed himself during the night in his cell — the same way a medical examiner determined Epstein died in 2019.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend and confidante, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sex trafficking charges in June. She has since been moved to a low-security prison in Florida.
Maxwell, 60, is set to be released in July 2037, according to prison records.
