Jeffrey Epstein spent at least two hours with a mystery woman in prison just a day after he was taken off suicide watch
Jeffrey Epstein spent at least two hours with a mystery woman while he was locked up inside Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center on federal charges for sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York.
The revelation came from a visiting attorney, who divulged the information to Forbes on condition of anonymity.
The attorney said that he saw the young woman with Epstein on July 30, which is one day after he was taken off suicide watch - on July 23, the 66-year-old was found semiconscious and with injuries to his neck in his cell - and moved into the MCC's Special Housing Unit (SHU).
He speculated that the woman could have been a lawyer because of the length of time she spent with him, a theory which would fall in line with an NBC News report which stated that the multimillionaire financier paid members of his legal team to sit with him for up to eight hours a day.
He said Epstein's daily meetings might have been a ploy for him to escape his cell too, as attorney meetings are carried out in a separately designated room where the prisoners get complete privacy. He explained that, when prisoners enter the room, their handcuffs are removed and the door is locked.
"The optics were startling," he exclaimed. "Because she was young. And pretty."
He said he believed she was a first-year associate because of her dressing style, as well as the fact that he didn't see her carrying any files. "It was slacks and a blouse. Could have been jeans or another kind of pants," he told Forbes. "But, like, Sunday brunch attire."
The attorney said, when he was in the facility, he did not see Reid Weingarten, who is Epstein's primary lawyer, or any of his other known attorneys, and that he felt the woman was there to keep him company.
"I think she was there just to babysit him, and keep him out of his cell, and just keep him company for eight hours a day," he said. "Which is not supposed to be the way it works." The long amounts of time he spent in the room were reportedly a source of annoyance for other lawyers because there are only two such rooms for attorneys visiting SHU clients. This meant that, instead of the usual 15-minute waiting time, they would have to endure waits as long as two hours.
"They wouldn't move anybody until he got where he was going, which is what they used to do with El Chapo, too," the visiting attorney revealed.
David Patton, the executive director of the Federal Defenders of New York, a nonprofit that provides low-cost or free legal representation for people, told Forbes that spending eight hours a day in the MCC meeting rooms is unusual and that attorneys couldn't usually pull such a stunt.
"We don't have the ability to spend that kind of time on a single visit," he said. "Mostly, the waits are long and aggravating."