Judge Unseals Epstein Jail Note, Reigniting Questions About 2019 Death

A federal judge unsealed a handwritten note allegedly written by Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center before his 2019 suicide, released after a New York Times request. The undated, unsigned note includes lines like “It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye” and “FOUND NOTHING!!!” It was provided in 2021 by Nicholas Tartaglione’s attorney and had not appeared in the public Epstein files; the court said Tartaglione waived attorney-client privilege by publicly discussing its contents. Epstein’s death has been ruled a suicide, though conspiracy theories persist, and the note appears to have been written before an earlier suicide attempt.