Purported Epstein suicide note unsealed by New York judge
Posted on: Feb 05, 2026 14:30 IST | Posted by: Cbc
A felo-de-se take note supposedly written by sexual urge offender Jeffrey sir jacob epstein before his death has been unsealed by a federal judge in New York City after years out of public view.
The document was released by the U.S. District Court on Wednesday.
“They investigated me for months — FOUND NOTHING!!!” read the handwritten note, adding that the investigated resulted in charges.
“It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye,” it continued.
“Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!! NO FUN — NOT WORTH IT!!”
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Epstein's cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, discovered the note after Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell after an apparent suicide attempt in July 2019, according to the New York Times. Epstein, 66, was found dead at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in New York the following month, where he had been awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
The note later became part of a conflict-of-interest dispute in court involving Tartaglione and his defence lawyers. The document was sealed to protect attorney-client privilege in May 2021, but published on Wednesday after the New York Times successfully petitioned the court for its release.
"Even if the Note had at some point been protected by attorney-client privilege (and, at least based on what is publicly known, it is not clear how it could have), Mr. Tartaglione has now revealed both its existence and contents. There is no justification for the continued secrecy of that discrete document," Al-Amyn Sumar, senior counsel for the NTimes, wrote on Wednesday in arguing for the note's publication.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas agreed with the newspaper's argument that privilege no longer applied because Tartaglione effectively waived that privilege by repeatedly discussing the contents of the note on a public basis.
More to come.
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