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- Jeffrey Epstein planned to cryogenically freeze his body after death, a new book says.Virginia Giuffre said in her memoir that it was one of Epstein's many bizarre beliefs.The book says Epstein justified sexual abuse of girls "as part of the natural order of things."
While some people believe Jeffrey Epstein went somewhere very hot after his death, one accuser said she believes his body may be very cold.
According to a forthcoming memoir by Virginia Giuffre, Epstein said he planned to freeze his body after his death, believing he could one day be brought back to life.
"Epstein had repeatedly told me exactly what would happen when he died: his body would be placed in some sort of cryogenic chamber to be preserved until technology advanced far enough to bring him back to life," Giuffre wrote in her book. "That's what he'd always bragged to me, with that satisfied smirk on his face."
Cryonics companies freeze people's bodies after they die to preserve them.
There is no known way to bring people back to life.
Giuffre made the claim about Epstein in her book "Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice," scheduled to be published on Tuesday by Knopf.
Giuffre, one of Epstein's highest-profile accusers, died by suicide in April.
The memoir, written in collaboration with the journalist Amy Wallace, covers what Giuffre described as years of abuse at the hands of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. She alleges they trafficked her to "scores of wealthy, powerful people," including Prince Andrew.
Prince Andrew has denied wrongdoing and settled Giuffre's civil sexual abuse lawsuit against her in 2022. Epstein killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on criminal sex-trafficking charges. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for trafficking girls to Epstein for sex.
An attorney representing Epstein's estate did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the disgraced financier's remains, nor did Epstein's brother, Mark Epstein.
"I know it sounds far-fetched, but I wouldn't bet against the notion that he somehow got his way on this," Giuffre wrote in her memoir about her theory that Jeffrey Epstein's body was frozen.
While he was alive, Epstein often met with scientists and reportedly told many of them he planned to "seed the human race with his DNA" as part of a transhumanist philosophy. Epstein was invited to editorial meetings at Scientific American, emails previously obtained by Business Insider show.
Peter Thiel, with whom Epstein invested some of his money, has also said he plans to cryogenically freeze his body.
Giuffre wrote in "Nobody's Girl" that Epstein held a number of bizarre beliefs, including ideas that justified pedophilia as part of the "natural order."
"Epstein liked to share with me what he insisted were 'scientific' justifications for his yearnings for young girls," Giuffre wrote.
According to Giuffre, Epstein said he would only have sex with girls who had already started menstruating, which he considered "of age" because it meant they could have children.
"I was flabbergasted when he said this stuff, but I held my tongue," she said. "No matter how young a girl looked, or how sexually inexperienced she was, if she had her period, he felt he could defend his abuse of her as part of the natural order of things."
