A federal judge has made public a suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein, which had remained sealed for years as part of the criminal case involving his former cellmate.
“They investigated me for months — FOUND NOTHING!!!” the note begins, before referring to charges linked to incidents from many years earlier.
“It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye,” the note continued.
Another line read, “Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!!”
The note ended with the words, “NO FUN. NOT WORTH IT!!” which were underlined.
Epstein’s former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, claimed he found the note in July 2019 after Epstein was discovered unresponsive in his cell with a strip of cloth around his neck.
Epstein survived that incident, but weeks later, he was found dead at the age of 66 inside the now-closed Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan.
The note was released on Wednesday by Judge Kenneth M. Karas of the Federal District Court in White Plains, New York, who had overseen Tartaglione’s case.
The judge’s decision came after The New York Times petitioned the court last Thursday to unseal the document and published a report in which Tartaglione described the note and how he came to possess it.
