A suicide note allegedly written by Jeffrey Epstein and purportedly found by his former cellmate was released by a federal judge.
The note, which has not been authenticated, was released on Wednesday by Judge Kenneth M. Karas of the Federal District Court in White Plains, NY, after being under seal for years in the criminal case of Epstein’s cellmate while he was being held at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center.
“They investigated me for months — FOUND NOTHING!!!” the note reads. “So 16 year old charges resurrected. It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye.”
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A federal judge has unsealed a purported suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein, which was reportedly found by his former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, after Epstein’s July 2019 suicide attempt.
The note had been under seal for years.
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“Time to say goodbye. Watcha want me to do — burst out crying!!” the disgraced financier and convicted pedophile allegedly wrote.
“NO FUN — not worth it!!” the note concluded.
“Mr. Epstein’s cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, said he discovered the note in July 2019 after Mr. Epstein was found unresponsive with a strip of cloth wrapped around his neck. Mr. Epstein survived that incident, but he was found dead weeks later at age 66 in the now shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan,” the New York Times reported.
The outlet noted that the judge made the note public after the Times petitioned the court for its release.
“Mr. Tartaglione, a former police officer in Briarcliff Manor, NY, shared a cell with Mr. Epstein while awaiting trial in a quadruple murder case. He told The Times in recent phone interviews from a California prison that he found the note in a graphic novel after Mr. Epstein was taken out of their cell after the apparent suicide attempt,” the newspaper noted.
“I opened the book to read, and there it was,” Tartaglione said, claiming the note was written on a page from a yellow legal pad.
Tartaglione said, “He gave the note to his lawyers because he believed it could have been helpful if Mr. Epstein continued to claim that he had tried to hurt him. Mr. Tartaglione was convicted in 2023 and is now serving four life sentences. He has maintained his innocence and has appealed his conviction,” the Times reported. “The note apparently became part of a drawn-out legal dispute among Mr. Tartaglione’s lawyers. Documents related to the conflict were placed under a court seal to protect attorney-client privilege, the filings say.”
