A federal judge on May 6 unsealed Jeffrey Epstein’s purported suicide note, a terse handwritten document in which the letter writer celebrated going out on his own terms.
"It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye," the note says. "Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!! NO FUN–NOT WORTH IT!!"
According to the letter, which has not been authenticated, Epstein also maintained that the case against him was thin. "They investigated me for months — FOUND NOTHING!!!", he apparently wrote, adding the charges date back many years.
The release of the note comes about seven years after the disgraced financier was found dead by apparent suicide in a Manhattan jail where he was awaiting sex trafficking charges. The document was under seal for years in connection with the case of Epstein’s onetime cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, a former cop who would go on to be sentenced to life in prison in connection with orchestrating a quadruple murder.
Tartaglione found the letter a little over a week before Epstein’s suicide on Aug. 10, court filings say. Court papers say the note was written previous to his suicide and in connection with an earlier apparent suicide attempt.
