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Jeffrey Epstein spent at least two hours locked up alone with a mystery woman — possibly part of his legal team — just a day after he was taken off suicide watch at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, according to a new report.
A visiting attorney, who asked that his name not be used, told Forbes Thursday that he saw the young woman with Epstein on July 30, when the disgraced financier was transferred into the facility's Special Housing Unit.
"The optics were startling," the attorney told the outlet. "Because she was young. And pretty."
He speculated that the woman could be a lawyer — as the multimillionaire paid members of his legal team to visit him for nearly eight hours a day, so he could avoid his cell and sit in a room designated for attorney meetings, NBC News reported last week.
The visiting attorney told Forbes that when he visited that day, Epstein's main lawyer, Reid Weingarten, wasn't there — and neither were any of his other known attorneys. It was only the mystery woman.
"If I was him, I would have hired ... an old bald guy," the lawyer said.
The woman didn't seem to be carrying any files and was dressed casually — leading the attorney to believe that she was a first-year associate, according to the report.
"It was slacks and a blouse. ... Could have been jeans or another kind of pants," he told Forbes. "But, like, Sunday brunch attire."
"I think she was there just to babysit him, and keep him out of his cell, and just keep him company for eight hours a day," he added. "Which is not supposed to be the way it works."
Comment: Webb's series on Epstein's links to crime syndicates: