A note that Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate says he found after Epstein’s first suspected jail suicide attempt in 2019 was made public Wednesday—after being sealed for nearly five years in a courthouse vault as part of an unrelated legal dispute.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas ordered the note’s release after The New York Times petitioned to unseal it in a case involving the cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione. Tartaglione referenced the note on a podcast last year and claimed he discovered it in a book in their cell after Epstein was found on July 23, 2019 with a strip of bedsheet around his neck.
Epstein later died at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan on Aug. 10, 2019, with the medical examiner ruling it a suicide. Officials have cited multiple jail missteps, but it remains unclear who wrote the note, and it was not included in prior government reports.
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