NY Judge Unseals Epstein's Alleged 2019 Suicide Note

A federal judge in New York unsealed a handwritten note this week that Epstein's former cellmate claims was written by Jeffrey Epstein following a suspected suicide attempt in July 2019 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

The note, released on May 6 by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas at the request of The New York Times, had been sealed since 2021 as part of records in the criminal case of Nicholas Tartaglione, Epstein's cellmate at the time. Tartaglione, a former police officer convicted in 2023 of murdering four men and sentenced to life in prison, said he discovered the unsigned document tucked inside a graphic novel in their shared cell shortly after guards found Epstein semi-conscious on the floor on July 23 with a strip of bedsheet around his neck.

The note reads in part: "They investigated me for month found nothing!!! ... It is a treat to be able to choose ones time to say goodbye. Watcha want me to do Bust out cryin!! NO FUN NOT WORTH IT!!" Tartaglione alerted guards that morning and later gave the note to his lawyers to counter any accusation that he had harmed Epstein. Epstein initially told jail staff that Tartaglione had attacked him but recanted...