A suicide note purportedly left behind in his jail cell by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein before his first attempt to kill himself said, “It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye.”
Epstein’s former cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione — a convicted quadruple murderer — claimed that he found the note tucked in a book in the days after Epstein’s first suicide attempt in July 2019. At the time, Epstein denied being suicidal and told a psychologist “I have no interest in killing myself.”
A federal judge ordered the note unsealed on Wednesday, giving the public and investigators their first look at the purported suicide note.
The cryptic, one-page handwritten note offered few new details about Epstein’s purported motivations, and there is no confirmation that Epstein himself authored it.
“They investigated me for month — found nothing!!!” the note said.
Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, Ma., Sept. 8, 2004.
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“Whatcha want me to do — burst out crying!” the note continued. “NO FUN — NOT WORTH IT!!”
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One line of the seven-line note is unclear because a word is indecipherable.
Epstein died in jail while awaiting trial on August 10, 2019. His death was ruled a suicide by hanging by the New York Medical Examiner’s Office, and the Justice Department concurred with that finding.
