Who was Jeffery Epstein? To most people Jeffery was an intelligent, charismatic, wealthy businessman who knew many wealthy important people. Google Jeffery now, and you will find heaps of conspiracy theories about his death, stories about his private island, and just how big of a sex trafficking scandal he led. Jeffery was an intelligent wealthy man who used both to essentially get what he wanted. According to a reporter, James Stewart, who interviewed Jeffrey in 2019, James stated “The overriding impression I took away from our roughly 90-minute conversation was that Mr. Epstein knew an astonishing number of rich, famous and powerful people, and had photos to prove it. He also claimed to know a great deal about these people, some of it potentially damaging or embarrassing, including details about their supposed sexual proclivities and recreational drug use.” James was also asked by Jeffery to write his autobiography, which of course never happened because of his death. In his interview, Jeffery claimed to know a lot about the wealthy people he knew, stating from James Stewart, “So one of my first thoughts on hearing of Mr. Epstein’s suicide was that many prominent men and at least a few women must be breathing sighs of relief that whatever Mr. Epstein knew, he has taken it with him.”.

     While Jeffery was charismatic, Jeffery had a dark side, a side that mostly swept under the rug, likely due to his wealth of paying people off. Jeffery knew too much. He had a past of sexual assault and sex crimes that nearly went unpunished to the public eye. In 2005, Jeffery was sentenced to a lenient 13 months in federal prison for sex crimes. According to an article written by Roland Martin, that was last updated October 25th, 2024, “Further accusations began to surface, and, by the time U.S. attorney (and later secretary of labor under President Trump) Alexander Acosta began to put together a criminal case, the number of alleged victims had reached about 40. Eventually, despite a wealth of evidence, the government entered a plea deal in 2008 that saw Epstein serve only 13 months in prison with a provision allowing him to work in his Palm Beach office six days a week. Acosta later stated that the deal was lenient because intelligence officials had told him to “back off” Epstein at the time, signaling that the money manager was of some importance to another federal case.”

     Jeffery Epstein was wealthy businessman man who knew many secrets. He also knew how to play the system well. It’s only a wonder why the conspiracy theory surrounding his suicide in federal prison came about. He had gnarling past that still remains the topic years after his death.  The biggest conspiracy theory surrounding Jeffery Epstein's is revolving around his death which was ruled a suicide; however, many people believe that he didn't commit suicide and was murdered. After his death was ruled a suicide the term “Jeffery Epstein didn't kill himself” skyrocketed, it was said by both political parties, it trended on social media, and it was even featured on ugly Christmas sweaters and it quickly became a meme that spread like wildfire “These Jeffery Epstein memes allege that Epstein was murdered, the media is covering it up, and that anyone who believes the official story is an idiot” (dailydot, 2021).  (argumentative statement here murdering Jeffery Epstein while he was in a prison cell would be hard to do and he had previous suicide attempts and was supposed to be monitored blah blah blah) 

The second conspiracy theory is that Jeffery Epstein was murdered by the Clinton family. Jeffery Epstein was accused on sex trafficking and sexually abusing many young girls, most of which occurred on his own private island. It was well known that Jeffery Epstein had close connections to powerful and wealthy people like former president Bill Clinton. Flight logs on Epstein's private plane were revealed after a lawsuit filed by one of his accusers “By 2002 after Bill Clinton had left office the former president became listed as a passenger on Epstein's plane a fact confirmed by Clinton's spokesperson on twitter in July” (Fichera, 2021). While the flight logs don't confirm the former president ever visited the Epstein Island, people began to assume that the Clintons had visited the Epstein Island and murdered Jeffery Epstein so he wouldn't reveal any information about it. While there were a lot of suspicious things surrounding his death like cameras being out and guards not properly checking on him, the claim that the Clintons killed Jeffery Epstein so he couldn't reveal information has nothing to back it up.