Court Unseals Jeffrey Epstein’s Suicide Note as New Questions Erupt

Jeffrey Epstein is back in the headlines after a New York court unsealed what is said to be a handwritten note from his failed 2019 suicide attempt — and the message is as eerie as it is unsettling.

The newly released document, made public Wednesday after a petition by The New York Times, appears to show the convicted sex offender insisting investigators had “found nothing” on him while writing cryptic lines about choosing “one’s time to say goodbye.”

The barely legible note is believed to have been written in July 2019, just days after Epstein was arrested on federal sex-trafficking charges and after he was found injured inside his Manhattan jail cell.

Among the most disturbing lines, Epstein appeared to write, “They investigated for month — found nothing!!!” He also seemingly added, “It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye,” along with other bizarre remarks that have only fueled fresh scrutiny over the disgraced financier’s final weeks.

The note surfaced through an unexpected source: Epstein’s former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, the ex-cop and convicted quadruple murderer whom Epstein had blamed after that failed hanging attempt.

Tartaglione later turned the note over to his attorneys, arguing it supported his claim that he had nothing to do with Epstein’s injuries. According to reporting on the release, the note was later authenticated as Epstein’s writing.

Epstein would go on to die by suicide in August 2019, just one month after the note was allegedly written. His death has remained the subject of enormous public suspicion for years, especially given the botched jail procedures, missing oversight, and the powerful names tied to his orbit.

The Justice Department has separately released millions of Epstein-related records in 2026, keeping the case squarely in the public eye as demands for transparency continue.

With this newly unsealed note now out in the open, the Epstein saga has taken another dark turn. Instead of putting questions to rest, the document is likely to deepen public distrust in the institutions that handled one of the most explosive criminal cases in modern American history.