Sources reveal odd items inside paedophile’s New York home

A painting of a “sexy” Bill Clinton in drag is far from the most bizarre item to be discovered in paedophile Jeffrey Epstein's home.

An unsettling painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress and red heels was recovered from Jeffrey Epstein’s house recently — but it was far from the oddest item in the home.

New photos acquired by the New York Pos t have also revealed a string of other bizarre decor choices littering the convicted sex offender’s luxury New York townhouse.

The pictures were taken by an unnamed trader who visited the billionaire financier’s home for a business meeting, well before his arrest last month on child sex trafficking charges.

Epstein died last Saturday in an “apparent suicide” following a previous suspected suicide attempt in July.

A number of sources have revealed the strange items which filled Jeffrey Epstein’s New York home. Picture: Kevin Hagen/Getty Images/AFP

Among the items captured by the trader were a painting of a woman with one breast exposed — said to be worth $US5.9 million ($A8.7 million), a taxidermied tiger and a stuffed poodle dog.

The trader told the Post he took the pictures because he found the decor “odd”.

“The stuffed toy poodle was really kind of crazy. It wasn’t fake fur at all,” he said.

“It looked like he needed to be dusted.”

He said the tiger was “huge” and that it “dwarfed” a large desk in the room.

Meanwhile, Vanity Fair has also revealed other details of how Epstein “downright filled (the home) with creepy stuff”. “The man had strange taste,” the magazine noted.

As far back as 2003, writers for the publication were publishing bizarre details about the home, with reporter Vicky Ward describing the same black poodle the trader encountered as well as “row upon row of individually framed eyeballs” in the entrance hall, and a “twice-life-size sculpture of a naked African warrior”.

The New York Times has also written about a chess board owned by Epstein with figurines “dressed suggestively” and modelled on his own staff members.

And in 2014, American blogger and publicist R. Couri Haytold the New York Times on the second floor of Epstein’s opulent home housed a mural of a prison — complete with guards and barbed wire — with Epstein himself in the middle.

Jeffrey Epstein’s odd home decor choices were making news as far back as 2003. Picture: New York State Sex Offender Registry/AFP

And earlier this week it also emerged Epstein owned a painting of former US president Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress and red heels.

The painting, called Parsing Bill, was the work of artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid and was auctioned off in 2012.

Yesterday, news.com.au reported that an autopsy carried out on Epstein’s body raised more questions than it has answered.

Epstein, who was facing up to 45 years behind bars over federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

Two sources “familiar with the findings” have told the Washington Post the autopsy found Epstein suffered multiple breaks in his neck bones.

One of the broken bones was the hyoid bone, located near the Adam’s apple in males.

And while that break could occur when a person — especially an older man — hangs themself, they are “more common in victims of homicide by strangulation”, forensics experts said.