Man Who Served Time in Same Cell as Epstein Says ‘There’s Just No Way’ He Was Able to Kill Himself: ‘It Would Be Almost Impossible’
A former inmate who was held in the same prison cell as the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein told NewsNation on Monday there was “just no way” Epstein could have committed suicide in the cell.
Introducing former Colombo crime family mobster Michael Franzese to NewsNation’s Banfield, host Ashleigh Banfield revealed that Franzese “served time in the exact cell where Epstein was later held” and supposedly committed suicide.
Reacting to the Trump administration’s conclusion that there was no evidence Epstein died any other way than suicide, Franzese said:
Well listen, you know, I spent seven months on that tier and in those cells and the first thing I have to say, there’s just no way you are able to commit suicide. There’s just no way. There’s just no way to hang yourself. There’s nothing from the ceiling, there’s nothing from the– you’d have to be a midget and work really hard to try to hang yourself, and I don’t think you’re gonna accomplish it at that point. You know, as far as the cameras being off, I haven’t experienced that– I did eight years in prison and I haven’t experienced cameras being broken and a perfect storm of correctional officers not walking those cells. They walk in and they look in on you all the time. As a matter of fact, you know, sometimes it’s embarrassing to go to the toilet because they’re walking past you and looking in the cell constantly. So I’ve said this from day one, I do not believe it was suicide. I can’t talk about what happened to him, but I don’t believe it was a suicide because you just couldn’t physically do it. It would be almost impossible to do it.
He continued, “Not only would you not have the privacy, I don’t understand how you would be able to do it. You have to hang yourself from something. There’s nothing on the ceiling that you can hang a bed sheet on. The bed is not that high. I mean, you’d have to try to lay down on the floor in some way because Jeffrey Epstein was a fairly big guy.”
Franzese concluded, “Especially, from what I understand, Jeffrey Epstein was on suicide watch for a while. They watch you very, very closely. Trust me on that. So I just can’t buy it. I cannot buy it, I’m sorry, and I have no horse in this race other than my experience and the fact that I just couldn’t see it happening.”
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Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, has also criticized the claim that Epstein committed suicide, suggesting his brother – the notorious pedophile who has been accused of operating an elite blackmail ring – was “most likely murdered.”
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