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Snopes is reporting, clearing up the false rumor about Jeffrey Epstein

Some people wondered whether Epstein had ordered this chemical "to dissolve bodies" after he learned of the looming FBI investigation.

But that turned out to be False.

In other words, Epstein's order for sulfuric acid appeared to have been for routine maintenance of the desalinization plant on Little St. James.

Jeffrey Epstein didn't use Sulfuric Acis to dissolve the bodies

He had a comercial incinerator on the island and didn't need the acid

Anyone have a copy of the pics of the "Cattle" incinerator from the island?

Claim:

On Dec. 6, 2018, when the FBI announced it would begin investigating the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for suspected sex trafficking, he ordered barrels of sulfuric acid.

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Context:

Emails and documents from the batch of published files related to the Epstein case refer to the chemical several times, including in 2013, in the context of water desalinization, which would have been necessary on his island Little St. James.

In February 2026, after the Department of Justice released 3.5 million documents related to the case of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a rumor spread online that the disgraced financier had ordered 330 gallons of sulfuric acid on the day the FBI announced it would investigate him for suspected sex trafficking.

For example, one X user posted (archived) screenshots supposedly showing files related to Epstein's case. The first looked like an email noting the date the investigation started, Dec. 6, 2018, and the second seemed to be a wire transfer request form for sulfuric acid from the same date.

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