PHOTOS have emerged from inside paedo Jeffrey Epstein’s creepy New York lair including images of a stuffed tiger and a £5.9m painting of a woman cupping her breast.

The startling snaps give an insight into the twisted mind of the shamed tycoon, who died from hanging last Saturday in his jail cell while awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges.

11 A taxidermy tiger on a rug in Jeffrey Epstein's Upper East Side home Credit: The Mega Agency

11 The phone images were snapped by a hedge fund trader who visited Epstein Credit: The Mega Agency

The photos emerged as it was revealed ghouls have now been taking selfies outside Epstein’s £46m mansion.

They also show the ornate and ostentatious furnishings favoured by the convicted sex offender, 66, including a crystal chandelier and a pair of matching candelabra.

The phone images were snapped by a hedge fund trader who said he went to Epstein’s mansion to pitch his investment strategy to the multimillionaire.

“When I showed up, they took me upstairs – I think by mistake, they thought I was someone else – and they left me,” the trader said.

“I just took some pictures because it was so odd.”

The hedge funder described Epstein’s office as “very opulent, all dark burgundies and reds,” adding that “the picture behind the desk was very interesting” and obviously painted by “a decent artist.”

Online records show the oil-on-canvas portrait, “Femme Fatale,” was created around 1905 by Dutch-French artist Kees van Dongen and was most recently purchased by an unidentified bidder during a November 2004 auction at Christie’s.

11 Hanging the wall of his office was this painting by Dutch-French artist Kees van Dongen Credit: The Mega Agency

11 Dark tourists pose for photographs outside Jeffrey Epstein's New York mansion Credit: Splash News

11 A woman takes what appears to be a selfie outside the front door of the townhouse Credit: Splash News

11 The mansion of the child abuser has become a sinister tourist attraction Credit: Splash News

“The stuffed toy poodle was really kind of crazy. It wasn’t fake fur at all,” the trader said.

“It looked like he needed to be dusted.”

And the tiger, the trader said, “was huge.”

“I don’t think the pictures really give proper dimensions,” he said.

“The desk had to be one of the biggest desks I’ve ever seen, and that tiger just dwarfed it.”

The trader said he was ushered out of Epstein’s office after about 10 minutes and brought to a nondescript waiting room before being introduced to the financier.

“I remember he had a really hot secretary and he came off with a lot of bravado,” the trader said.

But while Epstein was “very enthusiastic during the presentation,” he never followed up afterward, despite the fact that he heard pitches from a group of hedge funders who offered “four different strategies and styles.”

“There were some really quality guys that we put before him,” the trader said.

“It makes me think – just purely speculation – that they weren’t really trading, just pretending to trade.”

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The paedophile banker, 66, died from hanging last Saturday in his jail cell while awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges.

Since his arrest and suicide, Epstein’s New York townhouse has become a dark tourism attraction with people posing for pictures outside the Upper East Side property.

Earlier this week, it was revealed that the disgraced financier kept a bizarre painting of former US President Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress.

A version of this story originally appeared on The New York Post.

11 Disgraced Epstein, 66, hanged himself in his jail cell on Saturday Credit: Rex Features

11 Epstein had this provocative portrait of Bill Clinton in his New York mansion, according to reports Credit: Petrina Ryan-Kleid

11 The door of the banker's New York mansion was busted open by FBI agents Credit: Splash News

11 Epstein's mansion raided by FBI agents in July Credit: Getty Images - Getty

11 Epstein killed himself at the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan Credit: Alamy

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