Jeffrey Epstein's brother has claimed that a new report will prove that the paedophile financier was murdered.
Speaking to Piers Morgan on his 'Uncensored' programme, Mark Epstein said that he believes 'even more so' that his brother was murdered, adding that a 'group of pathologists are actually studying the autopsy results that should have been done initially.'
He added: 'They are concluding, and doing the report that will come out shortly, which is being peer reviewed, for a number of reasons showing it couldn't have been a suicide as they had claimed.'
Mark, a property developer, concluded: 'It will conclusively show it was not a suicide... then who killed him and who had him killed.'
Citing the loss of CCTV footage from the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in New York, where Epstein was found dead in 2019, as well as the alleged hiding and censorship of official documents, Mark asked: 'Why all of the games? Why all the obfuscation ? It just doesn't make any sense.'
But upon being asked about his brother's victims and whether he knew about what the paedophile did before his death, he aggressively shot down Morgan's line of questioning.
Mark said: 'Unfortunately, I really don't care to be honest with you. I'm just concerned that my brother, whoever and whatever he was, was murdered. That's my concern.'
When pushed for further comment on the victims, Mark said before abruptly hanging up: 'These are the questions I don't get into. Have a good day.'
Mark said he had no idea of the crimes his brother had committed before his death: 'A lot of the stuff that's come out has surprised me. I wasn't aware of this stuff.'
But as early as 2005, Florida police opened a criminal investigation into Epstein in Palm Beach after a 14-year-old girl's parents alleged he had paid her for a massage.
Police spoke to more underage girls, who alleged that Epstein sexually abused them at his mansion in horrific encounters that began as massages.
Federal prosecutors later said that this abuse ring began as early as 2002. In 2006, he was indicted on one state felony charge of solicitation of prostitution.
But local police referred the case to the FBI, stating that this charge did not reflect the 'totality of Epstein's conduct.'
Two years later, Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges of solicitation of prostitution and of solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18. For this, he was given just 18 months in a minimum-security prison.
He was allowed to leave for 12 hours a day for work, and left the prison after just 13 months.
Following his arrest by federal agents in 2019, he was found dead in a New York prison cell.
Though the city's chief medical officer ruled his death a suicide, there has been mounting evidence that he may have been killed.
According to documents released by the US Department of Justice, investigators reviewing surveillance video from the night Epstein was found dead in Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Centre observed a fuzzy, orange-coloured shape moving up a staircase toward the wing (known as a 'tier') of the jail that contained his cell.
Inmates were issued with orange clothing and bedclothes, yet this sighting occurred at 10.39pm when prisoners should have been locked up for the night. Less than eight hours later, the corpse of 66-year-old Epstein would be discovered in his cell in Tier L of the prison.
Also casting doubt on the official line that Epstein died by suicide was the federal statement announcing his death that was dated before his actual passing.
The document, issued by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and dated Friday, August 9, 2019, states that Epstein had already been found unresponsive and pronounced dead.
But prison records and official accounts show Epstein was not discovered unresponsive until the morning of August 10, 2019, when a corrections officer delivering breakfast found him in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
In the statement, then-Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: 'Earlier this morning, the Manhattan Correctional Center confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein, who faced charges brought by this Office of engaging in the sex trafficking of minors, had been found unresponsive in his cell and pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
'Today's events are disturbing, and we are deeply aware of their potential to present yet another hurdle to giving Epstein's many victims their day in Court.
'To those brave young women who have already come forward and to the many others who have yet to do so, let me reiterate that we remain committed to standing for you, and our investigation of the conduct charged in the Indictment.'