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Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died by apparent suicide overnight in a Manhattan jail cell

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died by apparent suicide overnight in a Manhattan jail cell. Epstein was being held without bail pending a trial on child sex trafficking charges. On Friday, thousands of pages of documents were unsealed in federal court from a lawsuit filed by a woman who claims Epstein kept her as a sex slave.
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