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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television will shop the story of Jeffrey Epstein's human-trafficking crimes as a limited series after optioning Conchita Sarnoff's book TrafficKing. The studio has come on board the project after More/Medavoy Management had previously optioned the book, and Sarnoff's life rights, for…

Love him or hate him, you can’t deny that Bill Maher takes his material to places that other talk-show hosts fear to tread. Case in point: a week after the cellblock suicide of Jeffrey Epstein the disgraced money manager and sex-trafficking defendant’s final moments of life were already punchline fodder for the…

The chief medical examiner of New York City has ruled that Jeffrey Epstein, the well-connected jailed financier and accused child sex trafficker with ties to many powerful people, died of suicide by hanging. Epstein was found unresponsive Saturday morning in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in…

Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy report indicates that various bones in his neck were broken, including one near the Adam’s apple called the hyoid bone, according to a Washington Post report. The news is sure to add even more controversy and conspiracy theories to the jailhouse death of the disgraced billionaire. Writes the…

Stephen Colbert called out President Trump tonight for continuing to spread conspiracy theories on Twitter and then feigning innocence. After branding the president “conspiracist in chief,” The Late Show host played a clip of an impromptu news conference Trump had today outside Marine One in Morristown, New…

“I didn’t think it was possible,” Stephen Colbert said during his Late Show monologue tonight, “but President Donald Trump can still shock me. It’s kinda nice, you know? After all these years he can still keep the relationship fresh.” Whether Colbert clobbering Trump like Moe on Curly is “fresh” is in the ear of the…

The New York City chief medical examiner released a statement today saying that an autopsy has been performed on Jeffrey Epstein and the results are “pending further information.” According to the Associated Press, Dr. Barbara Sampson said that the city medical examiner performed the autopsy Sunday while Dr. Michael…

UPDATED with attorney general statement: Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead of an apparent suicide in his New York jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, the medical examiner’s office in Manhattan confirmed to Deadline. An FBI investigations of his death is underway. Attorney…

Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was reportedly found in his cell on Tuesday with injuries to his neck in what may have been a possible suicide attempt. The New York Post reports that Epstein was found “nearly unconscious” by guards at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he’s incarcerated on…

EXCLUSIVE: More/Medavoy has optioned Conchita Sarnoff’s book TrafficKing, which chronicles the Jeffrey Epstein child-trafficking case, along with Sarnoff’s life rights, for television. The project will be shopped for development as a limited series or television movie. The project is timely as the Epstein case has…

Embattled Labor Secretary Alex Acosta said Friday he will resign amid controversy over the Jeffrey Epstein plea deal in a sex crimes case a decade ago. Acosta had faced intense criticism for cutting a deal for Epstein when he was U.S. attorney for southern Florida. Acosta made the announcement to reporters while…

2ND UPDATE, 8:57 AM: A federal judge in Manhattan today denied bail for billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is charged with multiple counts including sex trafficking of minors. Prosecutors had been arguing for Epstein to remain behind bars, saying he is a flight risk and a danger to the public. His defense team…