Using bots to "fix" Jeffrey Epstein's Wikipedia
December 2010 Al Seckel to Jeffrey Epstein by e-mail: "Your wiki entry now is pretty tame, and bad stuff has been muted, bowlerized, and pused to the bottom. Careful editing and wording has muted the effect immensely. We hacked the site to replace the mug shot and caption, and now has an entirely different photo and caption. This was a big success."
Al Seckel died because of "suicide", another one: Al Seckel, known for popularizing optical illusions and his connections to Jeffrey Epstein (including efforts detailed in the released Epstein files to manipulate Epstein's Wikipedia page and Google search results using bots and other tactics to downplay his sex offender status), died in July 2015 at age 56 after his body was found at the bottom of a cliff near his home in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, southern France, in what was ruled a suicide.
From 2007 until his death, he lived with Isabel Maxwell (Ghislaine Maxwell's sister), and they relocated from Malibu, California, to France around 2010, he had three marriages: to Laura Mullen (1980, later divorced, with whom he had a daughter), Denice D. Lewis (2004, separated but never annulled), and Alice Klarke (dissolved in 2007)