August 12, 2019 07:25 PM

NEW YORK (WHEC/AP) -- More details are emerging regarding the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier and accused sex trafficker who was found dead in his jail cell one day after a court unsealed new details of the claims against him.

A law enforcement source told the New York Post Monday that the man awaiting trial on federal charges for sexually abusing underage girls was found hanging in his jail cell with a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and secured to the top of a bunk bed.