Wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in his prison cell in New York while awaiting trial for child sex trafficking charges, officials have said. The billionaire reportedly hanged himself in his Lower Manhattan prison cell, according to multiple US reports. His body was found in the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in New York on Saturday morning at around 7.30am. Manhattan federal prosecutors last month charged the 66-year-old with sex trafficking girls as young as 14. Epstein was already a registered sex offender after being found guilty of soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008. He spent 18 ... (full story)