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The prison guard who discovered Jeffrey Epstein’s body in his jail cell had googled the billionaire pedophile just minutes before finding him dead when she delivered his breakfast.
Tova Noel was one of two workers at New York’s Metropolitan Correction Center who faced criminal charges for fabricating records to show they had checked Epstein the night before he had d!ed.
Newly released documents show that Noel received a mystery payment just days before the disgraced financier took his own life in his cell.
On the night she was meant to be checking on Epstein every 30 minutes,
Noel, 37, reportedly slept on the job, browsed furniture online and even searched "latest on Epstein in jail" less than an hour before the sex offender "committed su!cide" in August 2019. Noel searched "latest on Epstein in jail" and clicked on an article about documents related to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, her newly released search history reveals.
She also searched for the latest information on Omar Amanat – a film producer convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy in 2017 – who was locked up alongside Epstein at the time of his death.
Her colleague, Michael Thomas, shopped for motorbikes during the night shift. Charges against both prison workers were dropped after the pair agreed to complete 100 hours of community service and cooperate with a Department Of Justice investigation.
Noel insisted during a Department of Justice interview in 2021 that she had no recollection of looking up Epstein that night.
A 2023 Justice Department report said there was no evidence of homicide but cited serious negligence and failures by prison staff.
