Newly Surfaced Video Undermines Timeline of Guard Activity on Night of Epstein’s Death (3/24/26)

Newly released surveillance footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein’s death shows correctional officers Tova Noel and Michael Thomas failing to carry out required security checks while stationed just feet from his cell. Instead of performing mandatory 30-minute rounds—particularly a critical 3 a.m. check—the guards were seen walking around, writing, and using a phone in the Special Housing Unit, despite clear instructions that Epstein required close monitoring after being taken off suicide watch.

The footage adds to a broader pattern of failures that night. Epstein had been left alone after his cellmate was removed, despite orders that he should always have one, and additional bedding materials were left in his cell, which he later used in his death. Investigators previously found the guards falsified records to make it appear they conducted checks they actually skipped. While both were fired and charged, the case against them was later dropped, and the newly surfaced video is now intensifying scrutiny over what happened inside the facility that night.


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Exclusive | New video shows guards milling about while Epstein a few feet away in his cell, possibly dead