Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought he did, but not anymore.
I've watched a few documentaries on people like Ted Bundy and Jimmy Saville, a prolific horrible child molester in the UK. He was rich and famous and had powerful friends (the royals, Margaret Thatcher, etc..).
What I learned was that people like Epstein and Saville are sociopaths, and sociopaths generally don't commit suicide for their wrong doings even if they are caught. They rely on their powerful friends to get them out of trouble, be it pressuring the victims, law enforcement, etc..
I don't think he committed suicide. There were enough very powerful men who were involved who had the means to have Epstein murdered.
This is simply not supported by psychological studies and scholarship.
Both sociopaths and malignant narcissists are at increased risk for suicide.
In particular malignant narcissists - a designation which fits with everything we know about Jeffrey Epstein - are most at risk when circumstances in their lives undermine the fragile reality they inhabit.
“While it may seem counterintuitive for someone with a grandiose self-image to take their own life, the underlying dynamics of narcissistic suicide often involve an inability to cope with intense shame, humiliation, and "narcissistic collapse" when their false self is exposed or their grandiosity is undermined by reality.”
Jeffrey Epstein’s depth of depravity and scope of criminal behavior was about to be fully revealed to the entire world, and all his famous friends, by the federal prosecution he was facing. It was a perfect storm to drive a sociopathic malignant narcissist to take their own life.
Jeffrey Epstein was also a very clever person. It would not have taken him long to figure out the system at the jail where he was being held and to find weaknesses that would allow him the opportunity to suicide.
I really think it is much more likely than not that he took his own life.