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The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

Dhruv Mehrotra

created: July 15, 2025, 7:40 p.m. | updated: July 19, 2025, 9:49 a.m.

WIRED previously reported that the video had been stitched together in Adobe Premiere Pro from two video files, contradicting the Justice Department’s claim that it was “raw” footage. It’s unclear what, if anything, the minutes cut from the first clip showed. The first clip is 4 hours, 19 minutes, and 16 seconds long, but only the first 4 hours, 16 minutes, and 23.368 seconds appears in the published version, meaning nearly 2 minutes and 53 seconds were cut from the end. According to the metadata, the cut occurs just at 11:58:58 pm. The cut is milliseconds before the one-minute recording gap that Bondi said was caused by a quirk of the surveillance system.

1 week, 2 days ago: WIRED