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Originally Posted by Kavalier
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
This sick animal successfully off'd himself.
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Epstein has taken his secrets to the grave. He was a despicable human and knew many secrets about many powerful, despicable men.
His apparent suicide reminds me of the scene in Godfather II:
After the Senate hearing, consigliere Tom Hagen visits Frank pentangeli in custody. Hagen tells Frank that he did the right thing by recanting. Tom and Pentangeli talk nostalgically about the good old days when the Corleone Family, as Pentangeli says, "was like the Roman Empire."
Hagen tells a story about what would happen to traitors during those Roman days, implying that the correct thing for Pentangeli to do now is to kill himself. Hagen tells Pentangeli if he accepts responsibility for turning on the Corleone family and kills himself, Frank's family will always be taken care of, just as the families of confessed traitors in the Roman days who killed themselves were allowed to keep all of their possessions.
Frank thanks Hagen, returns to his assigned quarters, and despite the presence in the other room of his federal guards, commits suicide by slitting his wrists while taking a bath.