{"id":57638,"date":"2025-12-01T21:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57638\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:01:20","slug":"jeffrey-epstein-name-dropped-at-luigi-mangiones-hearing-as-jail-guard-talks-about-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57638\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Epstein name-dropped at Luigi Mangione&#8217;s hearing as jail guard talks about suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Epstein was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/01\/us-news\/luigi-mangiones-eyebrows-only-thing-mcdonalds-manager-noticed-before-calling-911\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">name-dropped at Luigi Mangione\u2019s hearing<\/a> Monday when a jail guard testified\u00a0that the accused killer was given so much security because officials didn\u2019t want another\u00a0suicide on their hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was told that SCI Huntington didn\u2019t want an Epstein-style situation,\u201d Pennsylvania Correction Officer Tomas Rivers said in Manhattan court, referring to the jail where Mangione was being\u00a0 held at the time and Epstein\u2019s suicide behind bars in Manhattan in August 2019.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37815093\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2248794514.jpg\" alt=\"Luigi Mangione appears for a suppression of evidence hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan Criminal Court on December 01, 2025 in New York City. \" class=\"wp-image-37815093\"  \/>Luigi Mangione appears for a suppression of evidence hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan Criminal Court on December 01, 2025 in New York City.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Rivers, who was tasked with keeping a close eye on Mangione in December 2024, said\u00a0 Mangione was under \u201cconstant watch\u201d while in detention \u2014 a situation typically reserved for someone who is a threat to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein, a powerful financier-turned-convicted pedophile, offed himself while awaiting trial on\u00a0 sex-trafficking\u00a0 charges, authorities have said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37815094\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1154618548.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Epstein\" class=\"wp-image-37815094\"  \/>Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s name came up during Mangione\u2019s hearing on Monday. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>During an off-handed chat between the officer and Mangione at the Pennsylvania jail, Mangione also gabbed about a \u201cgang fight between \u2018Lady boys\u2019 \u201d and \u201csomething with monkeys on public transport,\u2019\u2019 referring to his travels in Vietnam and Thailand, the guard said.<\/p>\n<p>Mangione had allegedly been beaten by seven transgender women, commonly referred to in Thailand as \u201cladyboys,\u201d during\u00a0 a bar dispute over money, a new book has said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred months before he allegedly fatally gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect \u2014 a prep-school and Ivy League graduate from a wealthy Maryland family \u2014 also discussed literature with the guard, the officer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe discussed [George] Orwell, [Aldous] Huxley and [Henry David] Theroux,\u2019\u2019 Rivers said.<\/p>\n<p>Mangione even gave him a book recommendation, he said: Huxley\u2019s \u201cThe doors of Perception\u2019\u2019 about having a psychedelic experience on mescaline.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s Manhattan\u00a0 hearing is to debate whether Mangione was illegally searched by cops when he was caught and whether potentially damning evidence were wrongly seized from him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Epstein was name-dropped at Luigi Mangione\u2019s hearing Monday when a jail guard testified\u00a0that the accused killer was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6769,6974,75,84,83,9,24,63,4719,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-57638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","9":"tag-luigi-mangione","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-manhattan-headlines","12":"tag-manhattan-news","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-prisons","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57638","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=57638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}