‘Not Worth It’: An Epstein Suicide Note?

Well, if there was one Epstein file I wasn’t expecting, this is it. Today a federal judge unsealed the existence of a possible suicide note which Epstein allegedly wrote about two weeks before he died.

 A purported suicide note from Jeffrey Epstein obtained by his former jail cellmate was unsealed Wednesday by a federal judge.

The letter, which is handwritten on lined paper and has not been authenticated, dates to what was believed to be Epstein’s unsuccessful suicide attempt on July 23, 2019, less than two weeks before he died.

Epstein was found “with an orange cloth around his neck” and “friction marks” on his neck, according to a report from the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General. Epstein’s cellmate told officers Epstein tried to hang himself…

Epstein was discovered by his cellmate, a former New York City police officer named Nicholas Tartaglione. Immediately after the incident, Epstein said he was attacked by Tartaglione but later told investigators he did not know what occurred and did not want to talk about how he had sustained injuries, according to a report from the Department of Justice’s office of inspector general.

Here’s what it looks like.

BREAKING

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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And here’s how the NY Times parses it.

“They investigated me for months — FOUND NOTHING!!!” the note begins, adding that the result was charges going back many years.

“It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye,” the note continued.

“Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!!” the note reads.

“NO FUN,” it concludes, with those words underlined. “NOT WORTH IT!!”

The Times is also part of the reason the note was finally released. Last Thursday they published a story about its existence.

A suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan jail has been kept secret for nearly seven years, locked up in a New York courthouse.

A cellmate said he discovered the note in July 2019, after Mr. Epstein was found unresponsive with a strip of cloth around his neck. Mr. Epstein survived that incident but weeks later was found dead in the jail.

The note was eventually sealed by a federal judge as part of the cellmate’s own criminal case, according to documents and interviews. That means investigators scrutinizing Mr. Epstein’s high-profile death lacked what could have been a key piece of evidence.

On Thursday, The New York Times petitioned the judge to unseal the note…

Tartaglione claimed he found the note in the pages of a graphic novel after Epstein was taken out of their cell. He then gave it to his attorneys.

Mr. 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 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.

So, incredibly, this document has just been hidden from everyone for years. 

Supposedly, Tartaglione’s attorneys verified it somehow but none of the paper’s writing about it today will vouch for it. So I guess we’ll have to wait and see if some kind of handwriting analysis can confirm it’s real. But, realistically, I don’t expect it to change anyone’s mind about the various theories of how Epstein died. If anything, having this appear now will probably only add to the theories that the whole thing is some kind of set up.

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