New conspiracy theories maintain that Jeffrey Epstein is alive and properly

[ad_1] The publication of the Epstein information by the US Division of Justice on January 30 has shone a lightweight on the troubling hyperlinks between the financier convicted of intercourse crimes and a variety of well-known political figures and enterprise leaders. The discharge of those paperwork has additionally sparked conspiracy theories that Jeffrey Epstein remains to be alive. Even if Epstein was found useless in his cell in a New York correctional centre on August 10, 2019, some social media customers are sharing what they are saying is proof of life. Seems, nevertheless, there isn't a foundation to this “proof”.

Is Epstein alive and properly in Israel? Nope, these photos had been generated by AI “Israel faked his dying,” claimed a social media person on February 5 in a publish on X that has since garnered greater than six million views. The publish options what he claims is a photograph of Epstein, alive, sporting white hair and a shaggy beard and strolling the streets of Tel Aviv in Israel.

This pretend picture of Jeffrey Epstein in Tel-Aviv, posted on February 5, 2026 was really generated by AI. © X Nonetheless, the picture is solely pretend: it was generated by synthetic intelligence (AI). When you run the picture by way of a reverse picture search (click on right here to take a look at our useful information), it leads you to the unique model of the picture posted on the Reddit discussion board “hardaiimages”, which shares AI-generated photos.

That is the unique non-doctored picture posted on Reddit. © Reddit The AI-generated picture on Reddit options the folks’s full our bodies, whereas the X picture is cropped on the waistline. This crop was probably made to chop out the indication that the picture was generated by synthetic intelligence.

When you look intently, there's a diamond form on the bottom-right nook of the unique picture posted on Reddit: it’s the emblem of Nano Banana, Google’s synthetic picture generator which is built-in into Gemini, Google’s AI chatbot.

Google Lens additionally signifies that the picture posted on Reddit was “created with Google’s AI”. Photos generated by Nano Banana even have an invisible watermark that may be learn by SynthID, the instrument for detecting AI-generated content material in Google Lens.

This picture of Jeffrey Epstein, posted on February 7, 2026, was doctored utilizing AI. © X Social media customers additionally took to X on February 7, 2026 to share one other picture purported to point out Epstein, garnering greater than 2.4 million views. In it, Epstein has lengthy hair and a shaggy beard and is carrying a black hoodie. Behind him, you'll be able to see a automotive with pink taillights.

Journalist Henk van Ess reported that the picture was primarily based on an actual picture that had been doctored utilizing AI.

When you run this picture by way of Tineye, a instrument for finishing up reverse picture searches, then you definately’ll discover the unique picture was printed on Might 27, 2020 – after Epstein’s dying – by British tabloid The Solar. The picture was taken from a Netflix documentary launched in 2020. The automotive with the pink taillights that seems within the picture on X additionally seems on this picture, and Epstein is carrying the identical garments in each photos.

The picture above, mentioned to point out Jeffrey Epstein, was posted on X on February 7, 2026. Under is the unique picture of Epstein, which was printed by The Solar on Might 27, 2020. © The Solar Within the unique picture, Epstein is clean-shaven with brief hair. The picture that circulated on X was doctored, most likely utilizing AI, to make his hair and beard lengthy.

Is Epstein nonetheless enjoying Fortnite? No – Fortnite claims that the account belongs to another person Social media customers took to X on February 5 to share an much more incongruous so-called "proof of life" for Epstein. They claimed that the financier was enjoying the online game Fortnite in August 2025, six years after the announcement of his dying. A publish that includes this declare garnered greater than 7.8 million views on X.

Opposite to the claims made by social media customers on February 5, 2026, this gaming historical past is just not proof that Epstein has been enjoying Fortnite in latest months. © X As proof, these social media customers shared a screengrab of a Fortnite person with the deal with “littlestjeffl1”. They argue the profile is predicated in Israel, pointing to the presence of an Israeli flag on the avatar.

Le compte littlestjeffl1 sur Fortnite usurpe l’identité de Jeffrey Epstein. © X Nonetheless, there isn't a foundation to this declare. It does seem that, at one time, Epstein did use the deal with “littlestjeffl1” (you'll be able to see this on the US Division of Justice web site when you search the key phrases “littlestjeffl1”). Nonetheless, the paperwork posted by the division point out that he used this deal with for his YouTube account. There isn't a point out of a Fortnite account with the deal with littlestjeffl1 within the Epstein information.

A Fortnite official took to X to say that the account littlestjeffl1 didn't belong to Jeffrey Epstein. An current account proprietor modified his identify to this deal with:

“Just a few days in the past, an current Fortnite account proprietor modified their username from one thing completely unrelated to littlestjeff1, following the revelation of littlestjeff1 as a reputation on YouTube.”

The Fortnite official added that there was no signal of the e-mail addresses talked about within the Epstein information in Epic, the platform that helps the Fortnite sport.

“Because the public doc releases [of the Epstein files], folks have created Fortnite accounts with similar-looking e-mail addresses and person names,” reads the X publish from Fortnite.

This publish from February 6, 2026, options Fortnite’s official response. Supply: X. To show this content material from X (Twitter), you need to allow commercial monitoring and viewers measurement.