Jeffrey Epstein had obviously prepared for his release. Two days before committing suicide, the US financier accused of sexual assault and rape initialed a will trusting all his property to a trust with unknown beneficiaries, according to the New York Post citing court documents.

According to these documents, registered in the US Virgin Islands, Epstein has entrusted his assets, amounting to some $ 577 million, to a trust called the "Trust 1953," says the newspaper in its edition of Monday, August 19.

Such a method is traditional to protect the confidentiality of beneficiaries, according to a lawyer quoted by the New York Post. No beneficiary is named in the will, which only identifies the persons responsible for executing it, the newspaper added.

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In the will, the vast residence of the financier in Manhattan - where he would have abused many girls including minors - is valued at nearly 56 million dollars; his New Mexico ranch at 17 million; its Paris property, avenue Foch, at 8.6 million; and the two islands he owned in the Virgin Islands - Little St James Island, nicknamed by some "Island of pedophilia", and Great St James Island, recently bought and where he planned work - about 85 million in total.

To these properties would be added some 307 million in shares and other investments, 56 million in cash, and 18.5 million for its private planes, boats and cars, according to the newspaper.

Epstein did not support detention

The documents filed also include a copy of the financial officer's death certificate, dated August 15, without specifying its cause. Death was confirmed as a hanging suicide by the New York Chief Medical Examiner on August 16.

This information comes as other sources said the financier, found dead in his cell on August 10 at dawn, was increasingly unable to hold his detention in Manhattan federal prison.

According to sources quoted by The New York Times, Jeffrey Epstein hated his conditions of detention so much that he paid lawyers to visit him, 12 hours in a row, and spend the day in a room reserved for visits. In the days before his death, Jeffrey Epstein rarely washed, did not shave, and slept on the floor instead of using his bed, these sources said.

The US Department of Justice announced on August 10 two investigations into his death, which scandalized the United States. Even before the findings of these investigations, the prison warden has already been transferred, as well as the two people in charge of monitoring Jeffrey Epstein that night.

With AFP