Epstein alive in Israel? The popular image is generated by IA

As the U.S. Department of Justice publishes files linked to the convicted author of sexual crime, Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide while awaiting trial in 2019, social media users are claiming he is alive and is found in Israel.

But the image is a fiction and is created using artificial intelligence, reports the AFP news agency's investigative platforms, broadcast Clankosova. tv

Israel forged his death. Epstein is still alive and walks the streets of Tel Aviv”, says a February 5, 2026 post on X.

Similar posts made the image spread rapidly to X and other platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Threeads after the US government published more than three million new documents mentioning numerous powerful figures, including American President Donald Trump.

A 2023 Justice Department report said that the autopsy of a legal examiner determined that “the cause of Epstein's death was hanging and the manner of death was suicide” a fact officials have repeatedly repeated in the years since then.

Meanwhile, the image that spreads on the Internet is not the test of life as Internet users do.

The research the AFP conducted on the view also produced a result saying it was “created with Google AI”, and Gemini discovered a Synth ID an Invisible Filter that Google says that it aims to identify the content of the One created using its tools ʹ attached to the picture.

Other indicators showing that the image is a falsification generated by artificial intelligence include the wrong setting of the green index at the top of a traffic light, as well as a street sign containing a wrong Hebrew translation for “Tel Aviv” and lack usually displayed Arabic. /Periscopi