Jeffrey Epstein’s butler explains why his former boss would have never killed himself

Jeffrey Epstein’s former butler and alleged friend of 18 years is 100 percent certain that the deceased pedophile didn’t kill himself.

“I am like his brother,” former butler Valdson Vieira Cotrin told The Telegraph. “I don’t believe this was suicide. He loved life too much.”

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This photo, may be one of the last taken of the financier, shows him wearing an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sweatshirt, The Telegraph reports pic.twitter.com/hpJyxdHUoD

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As evidence, Cotrin cited the last time he saw Epstein.

“Epstein, he said, was relaxed and had been talking about making more investments in his islands – he had discreetly bought a second, which Mr. Cotrin visited – as well as spending more time in Paris,” the Telegraph notes.

“I drove him to Le Bourget airport,” Cotrin said. “It was a Saturday, because on Monday he was supposed to appear before the judge regarding all these accusations.”

“When I got home, two young women rang, his main girlfriend who had been with him officially for several years, Karyna [Shuliak], and another who worked for him. And then they told me, ‘Mr Epstein has gone to prison. He arrived in New York. The police were waiting for him,’” he added.

Cotrin’s partner, Maria Gomes de Melo, also confirmed Epstein’s demeanor prior to his untimely death.

“I’ll be back next week,” he casually told her.

She, too, suspects Epstein didn’t kill himself.

“On the Saturday late, we got the news that he had hanged himself, and honestly, he loved life too much to float away like that,” she said.

Her husband, meanwhile, also believes that all the sex trafficking charges against his former boss were hogwash.

“I was his chauffeur, his cook, his housekeeper,” he said. “I did everything in Paris. I was his only full-time, paid-up employee and worked for him from 2001 until his death.”

“If someone could have seen something, it’s Valdson, there’s no one else,” he added, referring to himself. “I want to say with all my heart from the life I lived with him, monsieur is not the man they say he was.”

Valdson Vieira Cotrin has a lot of photos on his facebook page, photos of him at the airport with Epstein’s plane in the background, of him in a luxury car, visiting New York and one of him with Bill Clinton. pic.twitter.com/psaQGa0p9C

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Some of these views are shared by Epstein’s actual brother, Mark.

“I believe he was killed because I believe that, a day after he died, and I heard on CNN that he was found dead from assumed suicide, they came out of the autopsy and they both concurred that this looked more like a homicide than a suicide,” he previously told Detroit station WJBK.

“I never spoke to Jeffrey again after that while he was in jail. I know people who did speak to him, and nobody thought he was suicidal. Even the people who spoke to him the day before,” he added.

His belief is rooted in the findings of Dr. Michael Baden, the pathologist hired by the Epstein family to conduct an autopsy.

“One of the major things was the three broken bones in his neck,” Mark said of the autopsy results. “Now, Dr. Baden has done about 500 autopsies. He’s been doing this for over 50 years.”

“And I’ve spoken to other pathologists, and they say, you know, on a soft hanging, which is supposedly what Jeffrey was supposed to have done, you know, you might get a broken bone, maybe two. But no one’s ever seen three broken bones in this kind of hanging,” he added.

Foresnic Pathologist Michael Baden — after reviewing over 1,000 jail hangings spanning 40 years — stated Epstein was the ONLY one that had three fractures in the neck. Even having two would be unusual!

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These remarks come despite the Trump Department of Justice concluding, after an “exhaustive review” of all the evidence, that Epstein did in fact kill himself.

The DOJ also concluded that Epstein did not leave behind a secret “client list” of famous people he was blackmailing.

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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