Jeffrey Epstein name-dropped at Luigi Mangione’s hearing as jail guard talks about suicide

Jeffrey Epstein was name-dropped at Luigi Mangione’s hearing Monday when a jail guard testified that the accused killer was given so much security because officials didn’t want another suicide on their hands.

“I was told that SCI Huntington didn’t want an Epstein-style situation,” Pennsylvania Correction Officer Thomas Rivers said in Manhattan court, referring to the jail where Mangione was being  held at the time and Epstein’s suicide behind bars in Manhattan in August 2019.

Rivers, who was tasked with keeping a close eye on Mangione in December 2024, said  Mangione was under “constant watch” while in detention — a situation typically reserved for someone who is a threat to themselves.

Epstein, a powerful financier-turned-convicted pedophile, offed himself while awaiting trial on  sex-trafficking  charges, authorities have said.

During an off-handed chat between the officer and Mangione at the Pennsylvania jail, Mangione also gabbed about a “gang fight between ‘Lady boys’ ” and “something with monkeys on public transport,’’ referring to his travels in Vietnam and Thailand, the guard said.

Mangione had allegedly been beaten by seven transgender women, commonly referred to in Thailand as “ladyboys,” during  a bar dispute over money, a new book has said.

The incident occurred months before he allegedly fatally gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk.

This week’s Manhattan  hearing is to debate whether Mangione was illegally searched by cops when he was caught and whether potentially damning evidence were wrongly seized from him.