Child abuser Jeffrey Epstein has killed himself, officials said.
The wealthy financier, who was facing child sex trafficking charges involving dozens of girls, took his own life in his Lower Manhattan prison cell.
Epstein hanged himself and his body was found in Metropolitan Correctional Centre in New York on Saturday morning at around 7.30am.
Manhattan federal prosecutors last month charged the 66-year-old billionaire with sex trafficking of girls as young as 14. Read more