The US Department of Justice (DoJ) released further documents from the “Jeffrey Epstein files,” including emails referring to then Prince Andrew, who is now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

Jeffrey Epstein’s final days were lived out in terror and torment in his prison cell, it has emerged.

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After an initial unsuccessful suicide attempt, the paedophile financier told a psychologist he was afraid to go back to his cell, new files from the Department of Justice show. Epstein, 66, would eventually takes his own life in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) at the Metropolitan Correction Centre in New York City on August 10, 2019.

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But the new documents released by the DoJ also spark fresh questions about the circumstances of Epstein’s suicide. The files state Epstein’s brother Mark submitted a tip to the FBI that he had been murdered. However, his death was a ruled as a suicide by hanging upon further investigation.

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In psychiatric notes from two weeks before his death, Epstein appeared miserable and compared himself to Dustin Hoffman’s autistic character Rain Man from the Hollywood movie.

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Epstein has attempted to take his life on July 23, 2019, it has emerged. An assessment by a psychologist said: “He stated that approx 1am he’d gotten up to drink of water as he gets up every thirty minutes. He remembered walking back to his bunk and waking up with staff there in his cell.

“When interviewed he stated he still cannot remember what happened in the SHU that caused the marks on his neck. He stated that for the 5 days before that he had only slept about 30 minutes each night because of noise in SHU.”

The evaluator added: “He stated he is anxious about going back to SHU because he stated he is going back to a place where he had gotten marks on his neck and he does not know why it happened.”

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Records showed Epstein was treated for a “circular line of erythema at the base of his neck, one section on the front with marks of friction and a small erythema in his left knee.”

Epstein’s cellmate at the time was Nicholas Tartaglione, who said he tried to revive Epstein. Mr Tartaglione was later cleared of any wrongdoing in the incident by prison authorities, and had been moved out of the cell by the time of Epstein’s death weeks later.

But the newly released Epstein files revealed that in February 2023 his brother Mark submitted a wild online tip to the FBI in the belief his sibling was killed. There has been nothing further to support Epstein was murdered.

The release of files is the most voluminous so far and comes after a massive public campaign for transparency into the US government’s Epstein investigations.