Purported Jeffrey Epstein suicide note had echoes of messages he had sent earlier
WASHINGTON— A federal judge in New York unsealed a suicide note Wednesday Allegedly written by Jeffrey Epstein Before a failed suicide attempt in July 2019, just after he was taken into federal custody on sex trafficking charges.
The disgraced financier would eventually die in what was ruled a suicide at the same New York facility weeks later.
Although the memo’s authenticity has not been proven, it contains an apparent reference to a line from the 1931 movie Little Rascals that Epstein used in at least two email messages, according to a trove of Epstein documents released this year by the U.S. Department of Justice in response to the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act.
In the handwritten memo released Wednesday, Epstein allegedly wrote: “They investigated me for months – Found nothing!!!”
The note ends: “What do you want me to do – I burst out crying! No fun – Not worth it!!”
This was a phrase Epstein had used before.
One September 2016, email your brother, “What do you want from me too – stop crying,” Mark wrote in response to the news that their cousin had become a grandfather.
And in another message The following year, Epstein wrote to his childhood friend Terry Kafka, “What do you want me to do/you want me to cry” in response to a message from Kafka about being nostalgic.
Epstein’s brother and Kafka did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
This line is an obvious reference to the 1931 short film Little Rascals”little daddy“, where the character Stymie says: “So, what do you want me to do, start crying?” when another character says this will be their last breakfast together.
The memo emerged from court records of former police officer Nicholas Tartaglione, who was Epstein’s onetime cellmate and is serving four consecutive life sentences for a 2016 quadruple murder.
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The memo itself was not among the millions of pages released by the Justice Department.
In 2020, “60 Minutes” published a report that Epstein wrote days before his death in August 2019, containing complaints about his conditions and similarly “Not fun!!!” He revealed a note that ended with the phrase:
Journalist Katie Phang filed a lawsuit against the Deputy Solicitor. A lawsuit was filed against General Todd Blanche for allegedly not complying with the requirements of the Epstein files law, which was adopted last year, requiring the release of all documents within 30 days and citing justification for unpublished documents.
The department released the files after the deadline passed and faced criticism for removing or not releasing some documents and for also redacting the names of some of Epstein’s friends and associates while also redacting the names of numerous Epstein victims.
