"Jeffrey Epstein “loved life too much” to kill himself and was confident of securing bail before he died, his butler for 18 years has told The Telegraph.

In an interview that will heap renewed pressure on the Trump administration to make the Epstein files public, one of his closest aides said he had spoken to the paedophile financier before he died and insisted he had been in good spirits."

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Valdson Vieira Cotrin with Jeffrey Epstein on his private jet in 2019. This photo, given exclusively to The Telegraph, may be one of the last taken of the financier and shows him wearing an Israel Defense Forces sweatshirt