An obvious suicide observe written in 2019 by the late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein was launched Wednesday.
A U.S. district choose ordered the discharge of the doc on the request of The New York Occasions.
The observe had been submitted to the courtroom in Might 2021 as a part of the legal homicide case for Nicholas Tartaglione, a former cellmate of Epstein. Tartaglione has beforehand claimed that the observe was written by Epstein after a failed suicide try lower than a month earlier than his loss of life.
Tartaglione claimed in a podcast interview he discovered the observe in a graphic e-book the morning after Epstein’s loss of life, and he gave it to his attorneys, who included it in his attraction. The observe was not talked about in Bureau of Prisons data.
CBS Information has not independently verified the observe.
The scrawled observe seems to learn: “They investigated me for month — discovered nothing!!! So 15 yr outdated expenses resulted.”
The observe additionally consists of the phrases “time to say goodbye” and “No enjoyable — not value it!!”
U.S. District Court docket for the Southern District of New York 
CBS Information beforehand reported that on July 23, 2019, 18 days earlier than he died, Epstein claimed that he was attacked by Tartaglione within the cell that they shared. Nonetheless, former Legal professional Common Invoice Barr later testified earlier than the Home Oversight Committee that the July 23 incident was “considered as an tried suicide.”
In 2008, Epstein pleaded responsible in Florida to state expenses of soliciting prostitution in alternate for having a federal case in opposition to him dropped. He served 13 months in county jail and needed to register as a intercourse offender.
Then in July 2019, a New York federal grand jury indicted him on youngster intercourse trafficking expenses. On Aug. 10, 2019, Epstein was discovered useless in his cell on the Metropolitan Correctional Middle in New York. His loss of life was dominated a suicide.
Epstein’s connection to the wealthy and highly effective has come underneath renewed scrutiny amid the current launch by the Justice Division of tens of millions of paperwork associated to the investigation, a few of which confirmed his hyperlinks to outstanding figures.
