{"id":199150,"date":"2026-03-20T13:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199150\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:22:14","slug":"im-not-jeffrey-epstein-im-palm-beach-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199150\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I\u2019m not Jeffrey Epstein. I\u2019m Palm Beach Pete!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida man has been forced to shoot down the latest Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy \u2014 after becoming \u201ca viral sensation\u201d for being the spitting image of the notorious sex trafficker.<\/p>\n<p>The silver-haired, square-jawed stranger found himself unexpectedly going viral after someone filmed him driving his convertible down a highway in the Sunshine State, suggesting he was the pedophile who had a Florida home and who many conspiracy theorists refuse to believe is dead. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEpstein is alive! Epstein is alive!\u201d the man who shot the video yelled, sending social media into meltdown.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38840375\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/video-man-bears-striking-resemblance-124048967.jpg\" alt=\"A man resembling Jeffrey Epstein drives a convertible car.\" class=\"wp-image-38840375\"  \/>A man in Florida bears a striking resemblance to Jeffrey Epstein \u2014 but insists he\u2019s Palm Beach Pete. @amposey__27\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.609375;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38840376\" width=\"360\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/billionaire-jeffrey-epstein-cambridge-ma-124049071.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Epstein in a black polo shirt, seated at a table.\" class=\"wp-image-38840376\"  \/>The real Jeffrey Epstein. Corbis via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The driver later addressed how his phone started \u201cblowing up\u201d after \u201csome dude randomly filmed me while I was driving on I-95, unbeknownst to me. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the next thing I know, I\u2019m a viral sensation,\u201d he said in an Instagram clip liked more than a million times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not Jeffrey Epstein. I\u2019m Palm Beach Pete!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many netizens were still amazed at the uncanny likeness, with some wondering why Palm Beach Pete hadn\u2019t done more to disguise his look.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDude has to get this constantly. Time to grow a beard,\u201d one person wrote, while others joked the infamous financier had somehow staged a Sunshine-State comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Others, meanwhile, quipped about conspiracies that Epstein\u2019s death wasn\u2019t a suicide but a murder by mysterious dark forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry to hear about your car accident next week man,\u201d one commentator quipped.<\/p>\n<p>The resemblance was enough to keep the rumor mill spinning, especially given the lingering fascination around Epstein\u2019s death. The disgraced tycoon died in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019, a death officially ruled a suicide, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/15\/us-news\/suicide-in-jeffrey-epsteins-jail-cell-is-impossible-says-mobster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but one that continues to fuel speculation online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The story has stayed in the headlines as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/05\/us-news\/doj-to-release-more-than-47000-withheld-jefferey-epstein-files-by-end-of-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the US Department of Justice releases batches of files tied to Epstein<\/a>, following pressure from lawmakers and a law requiring broader disclosure \u2014 though not all documents have been made public, and some material remains redacted beyond victims\u2019 names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida man has been forced to shoot down the latest Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy \u2014 after becoming \u201ca&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92108,28,30,29,9450,9097,4278,15698],"class_list":["post-199150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-doppelgangers","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-palm-beach","tag-us-news","tag-viral-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}