"“They investigated me for month - found nothing!!!” said the short note, which is hard to decipher in some places. “It is a treat to be able to choose” the “time to say goodbye,” the note continues. “Watcha want me to do - Bust out cryin!!”"
"“NO FUN,” the note concludes, with those words underlined. “NOT WORTH IT!!”"
"Tartaglione claimed he discovered the note in a book after Epstein was found on the floor of their cell at a Manhattan federal jail on July 23, 2019, with a strip of bedsheet around the financier's neck. That was about three weeks before Epstein was found dead in his cell in what authorities concluded was a suicide."
"In a written ruling, Karas said he weighed the privacy interests of third parties, including Epstein, before ruling to release the note. He said existing case law suggests that privacy interests of a deceased person, such as Epstein, “are vastly reduced and disclosure of the deceased's information is unli"
A note connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s first suspected jail suicide attempt was ordered unsealed after years in a courthouse vault. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas released the note following a request from The New York Times, and federal prosecutors did not oppose the request. The note had been largely unknown until Nicholas Tartaglione, Epstein’s former cellmate serving a life sentence, mentioned finding it in a book on a podcast. Tartaglione said he discovered the note after Epstein was found on the floor of their cell in July 2019 with a bedsheet strip around his neck, about three weeks before Epstein’s later death. The note’s wording references choosing the time to say goodbye and ends with “NO FUN” and “NOT WORTH IT.” It remains unclear who wrote it, and it was not included in prior government reports or recent Justice Department releases.
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