A federal judge released a handwritten suicide note that a former cellmate of Jeffrey Epstein identified as having been written by the infamous child sex offender, court documents show.
“They investigated me for months — FOUND NOTHING!!!” the note released Wednesday reads.
“So 10-year-old charges (indecipherable)”
“It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye.”
“Watcha want me to do — Burst out cryin!!”
“NO FUN — NOT WORTH IT!!”
The note was discovered by Epstein’s cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, a former Briarcliff Manor, Westchester, cop convicted on multiple murder and cocaine charges. Tartaglione claimed he found the note tucked inside a graphic novel shortly after Epstein was rushed from their cell following an apparent suicide attempt in July 2019, according to a New York Times report.
“I opened the book to read and there it was,” Tartaglione said. “It was written on a piece of yellow paper ripped from a legal pad.”
Epstein survived the incident, but died the following month at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Aug. 10. The city’s medical examiner ruled his death a suicide.
Following the July incident, Epstein denied the suicide attempt, telling jail officials that Tartaglione attacked him, which prompted the cellmate to provide the purported suicide note to his lawyers, according to the Times.
Judge Kenneth M. Karas of Federal District Court in White Plains made the note public following a Times petition.