[The latest: Lawsuit claims Mr. Epstein trafficked girls in Caribbean until 2018.]

Jeffrey Epstein, the financier indicted on sex-trafficking charges, hanged himself in a Manhattan jail on Saturday morning in a suicide, officials said.

He was found at about 6:30 a.m. at the Metropolitan Correctional Center and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement.

Federal prosecutors last month charged Mr. Epstein, 66, with sex trafficking of girls as young as 14, and details of his disturbing behavior had been emerging for years.