Suicides by hanging in New York City

Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School, before entering the banking and finance sector. Over several decades, he made much of his fortune providing tax and estate services to billionaires, and cultivated an elite social circle of prominent individuals. In 2008, he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution, and was indicted in 2019 for sex trafficking minors in the 2000s. He died in custody awaiting his trial; his death was ruled a suicide.

American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986-2013)

German writer, politician and leader of the Munich Soviet Republic (1893-1939)

American protest singer and songwriter (1940-1976)

American fashion designer (1962-2018)

American model and fashion/costume designer (1964-2014)

The death of Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier and child sex offender, occurred on August 10, 2019. Guards claimed to have found Epstein unresponsive in his jail cell at 6:30 a.m. at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, hanging off the side of his cell's bed, where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. After prison guards reportedly performed CPR, he was transported in cardiac arrest to the New York Downtown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:39 am. The New York City medical examiner and the Justice Department Inspector General ruled that Epstein's death was a suicide by hanging. Epstein's lawyers challenged the medical examiner's conclusion and opened their own investigation, hiring pathologist Michael Baden.

Indian-American writer

American musician, singer, poet and cartoonist (1967–2019)

American neo-conceptual artist whose art depicted diagrams of the social networks underlying global conspiracies (1951–2000)

American model (1985-2010)

South Korean businesswoman (1979-2005)

American judge (1760–1826)