A Federal Bureau of Prisons memorandum documenting an unmonitored phone call Jeffrey Epstein made from Metropolitan Correctional Center on August 9, 2019—the night before his death—claiming to call his mother, who had died 15 years earlier.

This is the official memorandum written by a unit manager at Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, dated August 10, 2019—the day Epstein was found dead. It documents a phone call made by Epstein the evening before his death, around 7:00 p.m. on August 9, 2019. The memo reveals that Epstein cut short an attorney visitation to make what he claimed was a call to his mother, using a phone number beginning with 347 (a New York City area code). This call violated prison policy and was unmonitored. Crucially, Epstein's mother had been dead since 2004—a fact that fueled extensive investigation into who he actually spoke with hours before his death.

Key Highlights

• •Documents the unmonitored phone call Epstein made just hours before his death on August 10, 2019
• •Epstein claimed he was calling his mother, but Paula Epstein had died in 2004—15 years earlier
• •The unit manager placed Epstein in the shower area on G Tier to make the call, a location chosen so Epstein 'would not be able to pull the phone cord into his cell and use it to harm himself'
• •The call was placed to a 347 area code number (New York City) but the full number was never recorded
• •The DOJ Inspector General later identified the call recipient only as 'Individual 1' and expressed concern that the unmonitored call 'could have potentially led to the incident [Epstein's death]'

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