The public prosecutor in Paris is opening an investigation to see if Jeffrey Epstein committed any crimes in France or against French victims.

Epstein, 66, was arrested on July 6 in New Jersey, US, after his private jet landed on a flight from Paris.

The disgraced millionaire had a residence on Avenue Foch, one of the capital's most exclusive addresses in the French capital near the Arc de Triomphe.

But Epstein died on August 10 in his jail cell, and an autopsy report released this month concluded he had hanged himself .

Remy Heitz, who is public prosecutor in France, said in a statement seen by Mirror Online the decision to now open a preliminary investigation was based on "elements transmitted" to his office and "exchanges with American authorities".

The new probe involves information regarding children as young as 15.

It emerged this week Epstein put more than $577 million (£476 million) of his assets into a secret trust fund before his death.

The discovery of the newly-created 1953 Trust, named after the year of his birth, led many to question whether he did it to keep money from the many women who claim he sexually abused them as teenagers.

Epstein's lawyers expressed their unhappiness at the coroner's official verdict of suicide last week.

Martin G. Weinberg, Reid Weingarten and Michael Miller have now hired a private pathologist after stressing "no one should die in jail".

They blasted the Metropolitan Correctional Center's "medieval conditions."

"It is indisputable that the authorities violated their own protocol," a statement seen by  New York Times reads.

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