The Jeffrey Epstein Fortnite account is fake

Fortnite developer Account Video games says the account some folks believed to be linked to Jeffrey Epstein is a “ruse.” In a acknowledge on X, the developer writes, “an novel Fortnite account owner modified their username” to “littlestjeff1,” an alias seen in numerous emailed receipts from YouTube within the Epstein info.

The electronic mail suggests that “littlestjeff1” would perchance had been connected to Epstein’s YouTube account, prompting on-line sleuths to explore for the username on other platforms. Users later uncovered a “littlestjeff1” account on Fortnite, along with a 2019 electronic mail that mentions procuring VBucks in Fortnite — though the sender and recipient are redacted. On-line participant databases showed that the “littlestjeff1” account has been active on Fortnite, fueling conspiracy theories that Epstein is aloof alive.

But Account Video games has since debunked these claims, asserting that a Fortnite participant modified their name “following the revelation of littlestjeff1 as a name on YouTube.” The firm adds that the Fortnite trackers, the put folks uncovered the alias, “simplest show your most contemporary name, no longer any prior changes to it,” and that it has “no file” of Epstein’s electronic mail addresses mentioned within the info.

“Any individual’s been having relaxing renaming their Fortnite account, but it with no doubt’s contemporary and no longer connected to the electronic mail addresses within the archive,” Account Video games CEO Tim Sweeney says on X.