A US federal judge on Wednesday released a document described as a suicide note purportedly written by the late Jeffrey Epstein and including the line: “It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye.”
Epstein, the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker, was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 in what was ruled a suicide.
The note was said to have been found by his former cellmate, convicted murderer and former police officer Nicholas Tartaglione.
Photo: US District Court for the Southern District of New York via Reuters
US District Judge Kenneth Karas, who oversaw the Tartaglione case, released the note after a request by the New York Times.
The note, scrawled on a yellow legal pad, was submitted by lawyers for Tartaglione, who was Epstein’s cellmate for about two weeks in July 2019 while both were held at a Manhattan jail.
“They investigated me for month — Found NOTHING!!! So 15 year old charges resulted,” the note says, according to an image of it released in the court file. “It is a treat to be able to choose ones time to say goodbye. Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!! NO FUN — NOT WORTH IT!!”
Photo: New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP
Epstein in 2008 pleaded guilty in Florida to soliciting prostitution from a minor, a conviction that led to a controversial plea deal and a short jail sentence. He was arrested again in July 2019 and charged with sex trafficking of minors, accused of recruiting and abusing underage girls in New York and Florida.
The note surfaced in July 2019, after Epstein was found alive in his Manhattan jail cell with marks on his neck in what authorities later described as an apparent suicide attempt.
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