An analysis of the prison video recorded from outside Jeffrey Epstein's prison cell found that nearly three minutes appeared to be missing. However, Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed last week that just one minute of the recording had been omitted.
The analysis, published by Wired on Tuesday, determined that "approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips."
The video was released by the Department of Justice and the FBI as part of an effort to put an end to calls for more transparency in the circumstances surrounding Epstein's death that night in 2019 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
Bondi acknowledged that "a minute" of video was missing during a cabinet meeting last week.
"The video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide," she explained. "And what was on that — there was a minute that was off the counter, and what we learned from the Bureau of Prisons is every night they redo that video. … So, every night the video is reset, and every night should have the same minute missing."
"So we're looking for that video to release that as well to show that a minute is missing every night. And that's it on Epstein," the attorney general said.
Although the DOJ claimed to have released the "raw video," Wired found that "the file was actually edited and saved several times over a period of more than three and a half hours on May 23, 2025."
"WIRED reviewed its findings with two independent video forensics experts, each with over 15 years of experience in Premiere and video production, who confirmed that the edit occurred just before the missing minute mark and that approximately three minutes of footage were cut from the original clip," the report said.
The outlet previously found that the video had been "manipulated" before being released.
