{"id":133694,"date":"2026-02-14T19:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133694\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T19:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:47:12","slug":"officials-made-decoy-jeffrey-epstein-body-to-thwart-media-doj-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133694\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials made decoy Jeffrey Epstein body to &#8216;thwart&#8217; media: DOJ files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials made a decoy Jeffrey Epstein corpse to \u201cthwart\u201d the media waiting outside the hospital on the morning of his suicide, new Department of Justice files show.<\/p>\n<p>New York City\u2019s Office of Chief Medical Examiner officials and guards from the Metropolitan Correctional Center created the phony stiff out of boxes and sheets and loaded it into a white van, while they transported the genuine Epstein body in a different vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to thwart the media [redacted], [redacted], and [redacted] used boxes and sheets to create what appeared to be a human body, which was put into the white OCME vehicle which the press followed, allowing the black vehicle to depart unnoticed with Epstein\u2019s body,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/epstein\/files\/DataSet%209\/EFTA00141120.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">an FBI interview document<\/a> from 2019 read.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38482205\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/exclusive-jeffrey-epstein-brought-downtown-21244548.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Epstein on a stretcher being moved by paramedics.\" class=\"wp-image-38482205\"  \/>The New York Post snapped the first photos of Epstein after his death in 2019, despite the attempt by MCC and OCME officials to create a decoy body to fool the press. William Farrington for NY Post<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38484980\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/jeffrey-epstein-body-bag-leaving-21244615.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Epstein in a body bag being loaded into an OCME vehicle.\" class=\"wp-image-38484980\"  \/>Epstein\u2019s body being brought out a backdoor of New York Presbyterian Hospital was captured by Post photographer William Farrington. William Farrington<\/p>\n<p>Hospital staff acted as if Epstein was going to be taken out of the emergency room and staged the press in the front of the hospital, while they secretly loaded his body into an unmarked vehicle parked in the back.<\/p>\n<p>The Post didn\u2019t fall for it.<\/p>\n<p>Post photographer William Farrington snapped the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/08\/10\/photos-show-jeffrey-epstein-as-hes-wheeled-into-downtown-hospital\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the world exclusive pictures of Epstein\u2019s body<\/a> as it was wheeled into New York Presbyterian Hospital at 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 10. <\/p>\n<p>Those world-exclusive photos showed EMTs working to revive his lifeless body.<\/p>\n<p>Farrington also snapped the corpse in a black body bag as it was loaded into the black van out back, while the rest of the press gathered out front.<\/p>\n<p>The disgraced financier was found dead at 6:30 a.m. in his cell, apparently after hanging himself with a bedsheet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials made a decoy Jeffrey Epstein corpse to \u201cthwart\u201d the media waiting outside the hospital on the morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6769,1208,9,24,55,54,56,6027,4719,340,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-133694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","9":"tag-media","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-pedophiles","16":"tag-prisons","17":"tag-suicide","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}