Guard Googled Jeffrey Epstein Just Minutes Before His Death

Newly surfaced Department of Justice records are raising fresh questions about the final hours of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

According to internal documents, a correctional officer assigned to the same housing unit where Epstein was being held searched the internet for updates about the high-profile inmate less than an hour before he was found dead inside his jail cell.

The search activity occurred during the early morning hours of Aug. 10, 2019, inside the now-closed Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan — the same federal facility where Epstein was awaiting trial on explosive sex trafficking charges involving underage girls.

The officer, Tova Noel, was on duty the night Epstein died. Newly disclosed search history shows she used Google at approximately 5:43 a.m. to look up information related to Epstein’s case.

Among the searches recorded were phrases including “latest on Epstein in jail.” Records show Noel clicked into an article discussing newly surfaced legal documents tied to Epstein and his longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Less than an hour later, at around 6:30 a.m., Epstein was discovered unresponsive inside his cell.

He was later pronounced dead in what authorities ruled a suicide.

But the timing of the guard’s searches — just minutes before the discovery — is now drawing renewed scrutiny as critics continue to question what exactly happened that morning inside the federal jail.

Epstein was not the only prisoner Noel searched for that morning.

According to the same records, she also looked up information about Omar Amanat, a former hedge fund executive convicted in 2017 of wire fraud and conspiracy. Amanat was also incarcerated at the Manhattan facility at the time.

Investigators noted that Noel’s browsing activity that morning included unrelated topics as well, such as potential Verizon discounts available to law enforcement personnel.

Still, the Epstein search has become the focal point of the newly released documents.

Noel and another correctional officer, Michael Thomas, were the two guards responsible for monitoring the housing unit where Epstein was held.

Following Epstein’s death, federal prosecutors accused the pair of failing to conduct required inmate checks every 30 minutes, a standard safety protocol in federal detention facilities.

Investigators also alleged that both guards falsified records to make it appear the checks had been completed.

The Justice Department filed criminal charges against the two officers in 2019. However, those charges were later dropped as part of an agreement that included cooperation with the investigation.

Both guards were ultimately terminated from their positions.

When investigators later questioned Noel about the internet searches, she reportedly told the Department of Justice she did not remember looking up Epstein.

She has repeatedly denied any involvement in the events leading up to his death.

“I had nothing to do with what happened,” she previously told investigators, according to records.

The circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death have remained one of the most controversial mysteries in recent criminal history.

Security cameras near his cell reportedly malfunctioned that night. His cellmate had been transferred hours earlier. And the required guard rounds were allegedly skipped.

All of it happened while Epstein was awaiting trial on federal charges that threatened to expose a vast network of powerful associates.

Years later, the questions surrounding his final hours inside a federal jail cell continue to fuel public suspicion — and newly released details like the guard’s internet searches are only adding more intrigue to the case.