A note a former cellmate says he found after Epstein’s suspected suicide attempt is released
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A note Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate claimed he found after the financier’s first jail suicide attempt has been made public after it had been sealed and locked in a courthouse vault for nearly five years as part of an unrelated legal dispute. A judge released the note Wednesday after The New York Times petitioned last week to unseal it and other documents in a case involving the cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione. Among other things, the note contains the phrase “time to say goodbye.” Tartaglione is a former police officer who is serving a life sentence for killing four people. It isn't clear who wrote the note Tartaglione claimed he found. It wasn’t mentioned in the lengthy government reports examining the circumstances of Epstein’s death.
Epstein cellmate says he found a suicide note. Justice Department says it's seeing it for first time
A note attributed to Jeffrey Epstein in his first suspected jail suicide attempt in 2019 has been made public. But that's not because of the U.S. Justice Department’s release of records related to the sex offender. The note was released Wednesday as part of an unrelated case involving a man who shared a cell with Epstein in Manhattan. The government says it never had the note. Nicholas Tartaglione says he discovered the note in a book he was reading after Epstein was found in their cell with a strip of bedsheet around the financier’s neck. Epstein was found dead in his own separate cell a few weeks later.
