• Updated

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.