How an apparent Jeffrey Epstein suicide note ended up in the hands of his quadruple-murderer roommate

• A suicide note allegedly belonging to Jeffrey Epstein was unsealed in court.

• This gun ended up in the possession of his former cellmate, suspected quadruple murderer Nicholas Tartaglione.

• The note was sealed as part of the court process.

This was a very important document that was not included. Epstein filesA suicide note apparently written by: jeffrey epstein itself.

The alleged note, made public Wednesday by a federal judge in New York, was written in a handwriting that matched other writings by the notorious pedophile.

“They investigated me for a month – FOUND NOTHING!!!” The note says:

“So 15-year-old accusations came to light.

“It is a pleasure to be able to choose the time to say goodbye.

“Be careful what you ask me to do – Walk out crying!!

“IT’S NOT FUN – IT’S NOT WORTH IT!!”

The note did not come from the Ministry of Justice. It emerged neither from a congressional investigation into Epstein nor from one of the many cases surrounding him. Epstein’s mansion.

Instead, it came at a court hearing involving a former police officer who was once Epstein’s prison roommate and was convicted of a quadruple murder in 2023.

His cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, said he found the note after Epstein’s first apparent suicide attempt in a Manhattan jail on July 23, 2019.

That day, a Metropolitan Correctional Institution official found Epstein with a piece of orange fabric hanging from his bunk ladder around his neck. Tartaglione woke up and called prison authorities when he “felt Epstein looming over him,” according to a later Justice Department investigation. Epstein’s death.

Tartaglione and Epstein initially gave different accounts of that day. Tartaglione said of Epstein tried to kill himself. Epstein told his lawyers and prison officials he wasn’t suicidal, and that Tartaglione had previously tried to extort him by offering him protection in prison in exchange for money.

Tartaglione reportedly found the note in his cell in the following days. a timeline Included in the Justice Department’s Epstein files. The timeline says one of Tartaglione’s lawyers later “verified” the memo but does not explain how. Tartaglione later told The New York Times that he found the note in a comic book.

Apparently shortly after his first suicide attempt, Epstein was moved to a different cell with a different roommate. The roommate was moved to another prison on August 9, leaving Epstein alone. Epstein died that night in what authorities ruled was a suicide.

The note fell on Tartaglione’s case, not Epstein’s

Tartaglione publicly revealed for the first time that Epstein left a note during an interview with influencer Jessica Reed Kraus in 2025 while he was serving four consecutive life sentences for kidnapping and murder. The memo was not mentioned in the Justice Department inspector general’s 128-page report into the circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death in prison.

Tartagione said he gave the note to his lawyers. The note played a role in a legal dispute in Tartaglione’s own criminal case.

The nature of the dispute is not clear from public court records. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas, who is overseeing Tartaglione’s criminal case, said in an order accompanying the memo’s release Wednesday that it was related to a conflict of interest between the former cop’s attorneys, and one of them was disqualified from the case.

Karas agreed to unseal the handwritten note at the request of The New York Times, which argued that the note should be made public following Tartaglione’s comments.

The memo’s mention of “15-year-old accusations” appears to refer to the Florida investigation into Epstein, which began in the mid-2000s into whether he sexually assaulted teenagers in Palm Beach. The investigation resulted in a 2007 plea deal that allowed Epstein to spend nearly a year in the county jail, even though law enforcement believed he had molested dozens of girls.

Epstein died in prison while federal prosecutors in Manhattan awaited trial on more serious charges. The indictment accused him of raping the girls as part of a sex trafficking conspiracy.

Other documents related to Epstein’s suicide note are under seal. These documents may shed light on whether the note is genuine and how it might be relevant to Tartaglione’s criminal case. Karas asked prosecutors and defense lawyers to offer to produce these documents by next week.

Those records, which remain sealed, include one of Karas’ orders regarding the dispute between Tartaglione’s legal team, transcripts of hearings regarding the dispute, and a report from an attorney Karas appointed to evaluate potential conflicts.

In other words, the lawyer Karas appointed to evaluate the dispute on Tartaglione’s behalf Bobbi Sternheimwho later led the criminal defense team Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

One of the prosecutors in the Tartaglione case was Maurene Comey, who was part of the team that brought charges against Epstein and confronted Sternheim in Maxwell’s criminal case.

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