A federal judge on Wednesday released a document described as a suicide note purportedly written by the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 in what was ruled a suicide. The handwritten note was said to have been found by his former jail cellmate, convicted murderer and ex-police officer, Nicholas Tartaglione.
US District Judge Kenneth Karas, who oversaw the Tartaglione case, released the note after a request by The New York Times, which reported its existence last week.
The judge found no legal reason to keep it under seal but nor did he vouch for the note’s authenticity, nor assess its chain of custody. Instead he treated those issues as irrelevant to the unsealing decision.
“No party has identified any competing consideration that would justify sealing the note,” the judge ruled.
Epstein claimed no charges had been found
The note, scrawled on a yellow legal pad, was submitted by lawyers for Tartaglione, who was Epstein’s cellmate for roughly two weeks in July 2019 while both were held at a jail in New York.
“They investigated me for month – Found NOTHING!!! So 15-year-old charges resulted,” the note says, according to an image of it released in the court file.
At the time of Epstein’s death, he was accused of running a network to traffic young women and girls. A series of documents and emails have since been released as part of over three million pages of documents within the so-called Epstein files.
His death came more than a decade after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
Repeated reference from a previous email
Epstein also included a reference he had used in an email to his brother, Mark, in September 2016 where he wrote, “whtchoo want me todo — bust out cryin”, as reported by The Times.
In another message to his childhood friend, Terry Kafka, Epstein wrote again: ““Whatcha want me todo/ bust out cryin”.
In the suicide note, Epstein again wrote: “It is a treat to be able to choose ones time to say goodbye. Watcha want me to do – Burst out cryin!! NO FUN – NOT WORTH IT!!”
Jeffrey Epstein’s mug shot, taken in 2017. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP)Epstein had been moved to his own cell
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to soliciting prostitution from a minor, a conviction that led to a controversial plea deal and a short jail sentence.
He was arrested again in July 2019 and charged with sex trafficking of minors, and accused of recruiting and abusing underage girls in New York and Florida.
The note surfaced that same month, after Epstein was found alive in his cell with marks on his neck in what authorities later described as an apparent suicide attempt. Epstein said he did not try and kill himself, but that Tartaglione tried to strangle him.
Epstein was then transferred to his own cell. According to Tartaglione, the note was tucked inside a book in their shared cell.
Tartaglione mentioned the note in a podcast interview last year but the issue gained widespread attention after The Times reported on its existence last Thursday.
The Times reported that the note was never seen by federal investigators and was absent from millions of Epstein-related documents released by the US Justice Department in recent years.
In ordering the unsealing, the judge rejected privacy concerns, noting Epstein’s death and the widespread public discussion of the purported note.
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