I believe Epstein committed suicide

1. He had no reason to live and every reason to off himself.

I’m sure Epstein could see which way the wind was blowing. The powers that be wanted to make sure he spent the rest of his days in prison. After experiencing the horrors of the Metropolitan Correctional Center, it makes sense that he would want to end his life. Maybe ordinary people don’t do that, they’re too chicken to kill themselves, but Epstein was no ordinary person. He was probably a psychopath or at least had psychopathic tendencies. For narcissistic reasons, suicide is a far more glorious way to go than becoming an old man in prison if he doesn’t get beat up and killed by other inmates before dying behind bars of old age.

2. I don’t see how anyone benefits from his suicide.

Just the opposite. Epstein had no incentive to talk, it would just give prosecutors more evidence against him, and there’s no way they would ever give him any sort of deal. On the other hand, with Epstein dead, anyone who was afraid of speaking the truth out of fear of what Epstein could do to get revenge upon them, they no longer have to worry about that.

As I previously wrote, without Epstein as a scapegoat, prosecutors looking for people to punish will go after those who otherwise might have gotten deals to testify against Epstein. Especially Ghislaine Maxwell, who everyone seems to think was Epstein’s highest-level accomplice in securing under-aged girls. From an article in the Miami Herald:

However, with his death, prosecutors in the Southern District of New York will likely refocus their probe on Maxwell, Sarah Kellen Vickers, Adriana Ross and Lesley Groff — all of whom allegedly helped run Epstein’s operation in the mid- to late-2000s. Another woman, Nadia Marcinkova, who is now a commercial pilot, was accused of sexually abusing some of the underage girls.

Or maybe, they will go after other rich and powerful men who may have had sex with Epstein’s under-aged girls.

Dead people have fewer Fourth Amendment rights than living people, so Epstein’s death could potentially make things a lot easier for federal investigators.

The probate process will probably be very revealing. A lot of Epstein’s secrets will be publicly revealed which would otherwise have remained hidden.

This Rolling Stone article has useful info which backs me up:

Duncan Levin, former prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York and managing partner at Tucker Levin PLLC, says it’s not all that surprising that Epstein could have successfully completed an attempt at MCC. “There are all sorts of illegal things at the MCC, from drugs to cell phones to alcohol,” he says, adding that inmates themselves have been known to conduct checks for fellow inmates on suicide watch at the jail.

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And the fact that Epstein will never fully see justice in the criminal system, combined with the outrage and confusion many are now feeling over how this could have happened in the first place, will “ultimately translate to increased pressure on the government to investigate those who facilitated his crimes. I think that’s much more likely now,” says Levin.