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Jeffrey Epstein’s eyes had burst capillaries after his body was found suggesting the paedophile was likely murdered, a forensic pathologist has said.

Former New York City Medical Examiner Dr Michael Baden claimed as he examined graphic photographs from the sex offender's autopsy.

The medical examiner suggests the capillaries burst due to manual strangulation and did not hang himself, as officials have ruled.

Dr Baden’s theory fuels theories Epstein's was murdered after he was found in August in his cell at Manhattan Correctional Centre while awaiting trial for underage sex trafficking.

As he examined the pictures on the American TV show Dr Oz yesterday, the pathologist said: “In a hanging, the arteries and the blood vessels, the veins are both clogged off, and the person is pale. The face is pale.”

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“It suffocates you, no blood goes up there,” Dr Oz continued.

Dr Baden replied: “That’s right. No blood coming in or out.... with a manual strangulation, there’s a backup of a pressure and the little capillaries can rupture, and they’re best seen in the eye."

He also revealed why the pale colour of Epstein's legs raises another question for him.

"The blood settles after we die. The so-called lividity, if your hanging, the lividity is on the lower part on the legs.

"These would be like maroon/ purple, front and back and they aren’t."

Dr Baden was hired by Epstein’s brother, Mark, to observe the autopsy on the disgraced financier.

Along with his assessment over Epstein’s possible murder, other prominent figures have cast doubt on whether he committed suicide.

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, Representative Al Green, a Democrat of Texas, and Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor, all believe his death does not add up.

(Image: 60 Minutes/CBS) (Image: 60 Minutes/CBS)

Current New York Mayo Mayor Bill de Blasio has joined them in questioning how Epstein died.

He said he did not understand how the convicted sex offender, who had only been taken off suicide watch days before, was left unsupervised long enough in the federal jail, so he was in a position to end his own life.

"It’s just too convenient,” de Blasio said. “It’s too many pieces happening simultaneously that don’t fit."

Before his death, Epstein was friends to some of the world most powerful and well-connected men in the world including royalty, world leaders, billionaire businessmen and other high profile individuals.

Since his death in August last year, it has emerged the billionaire kept diaries in “meticulous detail” about his time spent with the rich and famous.

He also captured his guests on secret spy cameras throughout his homes the footage of which he kept in safe to act as an 'insurance policy' if anything untoward ever happened to him.

Before his death, Epstein once boasted to New York Times columnist James B. Stewart about the hold he had over those he associated with.

Prince Andrew had known Epstein for more than a decade after being introduced in the 1990s by their mutual friend, Ghislaine Maxwell.

The royal visited the sex offenders home in New York, Florida, the Caribbean and Arizona during their friendship and was later accused by Epstein's alleged "sex slave" Virginia Giuffre of having sex with her three times when she was a 17-year-old "sex slave" in 2001.]

The duke, 59, has vehemently denied her claims.