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(NewsNation) — A federal judge in New York on Wednesday released a long-sealed “suicide note” supposedly written by Jeffrey Epstein.
The handwritten note has been kept from public view for years, sealed as part of a criminal case against Epstein’s former jail cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione.
That cellmate claims he found the note inside a graphic novel, shortly after Epstein was rushed out of the cell following a suicide attempt in July 2019.
Epstein survived that incident but was found unresponsive in his cell on Aug. 10, 2019, as the 66-year-old financier awaited trial on sex trafficking charges at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. Officials ruled Epstein’s death a suicide.
The note released Wednesday reads, in part, “They investigated me for months — found nothing!!!”
It continues: “It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye. Watcha want me to do — bust out cryin!!”
The message ends: “NO FUN — NOT WORTH IT!!”
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas in White Plains, New York, ordered the note’s release after The New York Times petitioned last week to unseal it and other documents in a case involving Tartaglione.
Few people had known about the note until Tartaglione, a former police officer who is serving a life sentence for killing four people, mentioned it on a podcast last year. Tartaglione claimed he discovered the note after Epstein was found with a strip of bedsheet around his neck.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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