Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide on August 10, 2019. He was found unresponsive in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, having hanged himself with a bedsheet tied to the bunk. Despite being on suicide watch earlier, at the time of his death he was alone in his cell without the required checks, and the two guards assigned to monitor him fell asleep and falsified records. The official autopsy ruled the cause of death as suicide by hanging, although some controversy and speculation about the exact circumstances have persisted. The FBI investigated and found no criminality related to his death.