Just when you think you’ve heard it all, the Jeffrey Epstein saga still has the ability to surprise.

We now know that Epstein was found hanging in his lower Manhattan jail cell with a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and secured to the top of a bunk bed, although his autopsy results have given those who believe in more sinister motives some extra ammo.

The conspiracy theorists have been busy since day one, so let’s check in on the autopsy before we get to the Clinton painting.

It’s worth the wait – here’s the Washington Post:

Among the bones broken in Epstein’s neck was the hyoid bone, which in men is near the Adam’s apple. Such breaks can occur in those who hang themselves, particularly if they are older, according to forensics experts and studies on the subject. But they are more common in victims of homicide by strangulation, the experts said…

The office of New York City’s chief medical examiner, Barbara Sampson, completed an autopsy of Epstein’s body Sunday. But Sampson listed the cause of his death as pending.

Asked about the neck injuries, Sampson said in a statement that no single factor in an autopsy can alone provide a conclusive answer about what happened…

[Jonathan L. Arden, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners], who was not involved in the Epstein autopsy, said that in general, a finding of a broken hyoid requires pathologists to conduct more extensive investigation. That investigation can include analysis of the location of the noose, how narrow the noose is, and if the body experienced any substantial drop in the course of the hanging.

Authorities are still waiting on the toxicology screening to see if there was anything unusual in Epstein’s blood, as well as conducting further interviews with guards and prison officials.

OK, let’s talk about Bill Clinton. We know he had a cosy relationship with Epstein back in the day, but this is quite something.

Below from the New York Post:

Jeffrey Epstein had an oil painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress — lounging on a chair in the Oval Office — hanging up in his Manhattan townhouse, according to law enforcement sources.

“It was hanging up there prominently — as soon as you walked in — in a room to the right,” a source told The Post. “Everybody who saw it laughed and smirked.”

Wow.

That painting is the work of Petrina Ryan-Kleid (below), and is titled ‘Parsing Bill’. The Australian-American artist presented it at the star-studded Tribeca Ball in 2012, and it remains unclear whether or not Epstein has the original.

Ryan-Kleid has also stated that she had no idea the painting was in Epstein’s home.

You can read more on that painting here, but let’s get to what else was found in the apartment. Yes, there’s more:

Epstein, 66, also kept a mannequin hanging from the ceiling — dressed up in a wedding gown, the source said, noting how the doll was situated above a staircase.

This is going to make for one hell of a true-crime series down the line, if the people who start making it don’t end up dead along the way.

Hang on – more weird stuff from inside the house via Vanity Fair:

The town house, which federal investigators recently raided for evidence of a prostitution ring of underage girls, is on East 71st between Madison and Fifth, a block from Central Park. It’s famously one of largest homes in Manhattan—itself a renovated private school originally bought by Epstein’s mentor and Victoria’s Secret owner, Leslie Wexner.

Epstein downright filled it with creepy stuff. Like the rows and rows of eyeballs framed in the entrance hall, which Vicky Ward observed in her 2003 piece for Vanity Fair. They were “imported from England.” Also in the entranceway, he had a chess board with figurines modeled in the image of his staff, per the New York Times. They were “dressed suggestively.”

There was a stuffed dog in his study perched on a piano, according to Ward again. Of it, he would tell visitors, “No decorator would ever tell you to do that. But I want people to think what it means to stuff a dog.” It was a black poodle…

R. Couri Hay…said that on the second floor there was a mural that Epstein commissioned, which depicted a prison scene with Epstein in the middle of barbed wire and guards. Hay told the Times that Epstein had invited him to the mansion off Fifth to see the mural and noted, “He said, ‘That’s me, and I had this painted because there is always the possibility that could be me again.’”

…He had a “leather room,” a room covered in leather. He had “twice-life-size sculpture of a naked African warrior,” according to Ward.

Move along – nothing to see here.

You’d have to be a brave person to bet against more incredible twists and turns as the case continues to unfold.

[sources:washpost&nypost&vanityfair]