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A letter allegedly written by Jeffrey Epstein before his death has been made public, after the document remained sealed for years as part of the criminal case against his former cellmate. The letter is believed to have been written before a prison incident in which Epstein was injured but survived, just weeks before he was found dead in 2019.
The authenticity of the letter has not been confirmed by US law enforcement authorities. The document was released by a federal judge in New York who is overseeing the criminal case of Epstein's former cellmate.
Epstein was found dead in his cell in August 2019, with his death officially classified as a suicide.
Content of the letter
The letter, originally published by the New York Times, was allegedly left during the July 2019 incident, when Epstein was injured but survived.
NBC News, in collaboration with Sky News, was the first to report that this was possibly Epstein's first suicide attempt, after he was found semi-unconscious with marks on his neck.
The published letter states: " They investigated me for months - THEY FOUND NOTHING!!!".
It further reads: "It is a privilege to be able to choose the moment when you say goodbye."
And then it adds: " What do you want me to do – burst into tears!!"
The letter ends with the phrase: "NO FUN. NOT WORTH IT!!", with the words underlined in the document.
Jeffrey Epstein was convicted in June 2008 after pleading guilty to engaging in the prostitution of a minor.
In July 2019, the US Department of Justice filed new charges against him for sex trafficking of minors, but he died in prison before the trial began.
The former cellmate who claims to have found the letter
According to NBC News, the letter was allegedly found by Nicholas Tartaglione, Epstein's former cellmate.
The 49-year-old former police officer was arrested in December 2016 and charged with the murders of four men in a cocaine trafficking case and the concealment of their bodies, according to court documents.
He was later sentenced to life imprisonment.
Tartaglione has claimed to have saved Epstein's life during his first suspected suicide attempt. At the time, a law enforcement source and another with knowledge of the incident told CNN that Epstein was found in his cell in a Manhattan jail with marks on his neck.
"Jeffrey Epstein attempted suicide while he was in the cell with me. I woke him up and gave him CPR. And to prove it, Jeffrey Epstein wrote a suicide note," Tartaglione told influencer and author Jessica Reed Kraus last year.
He said the note was inside one of his books.
"When I got back to the cell, I opened the book to read and there it was. He wrote it and put it inside the book," Tartaglione said.
According to the New York Times, Tartaglione claims that his lawyers had asked for graphology experts to verify the authenticity of the letter.
Justice Department Response
A spokesperson for the US Department of Justice stated about the suspected suicide note:
“It’s difficult to comment on something that neither the New York Times nor we ourselves have seen.”
He added that the department had undertaken an “exhaustive effort to collect all the documents it possesses,” following Donald Trump’s signing of the law authorizing the release of Epstein-related files.
According to the statement, the process included materials from the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Office of Inspector General.
"As a result of these efforts, almost three million pages of documents have been secured," the statement said.
What do prison reports say?
A report on the incident, included in the released documents, says Epstein was found: “lying on the floor in a fetal position, with a makeshift noose around his neck.”
On July 24, the day after the reported suicide attempt, Epstein stated: "I have no interest in killing myself," according to the psychologist's report.
He repeated the same stance during the assessment the following day.
"I'm too committed to my cause to give up. I have a life and I want to get back to my life," he is quoted as telling the psychologist, according to the same report.
After the incident, Epstein was placed on suicide watch at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. He later killed himself in the same prison, an event that sparked conspiracy theories about the circumstances of his death.
The Justice Department said in a memo last year that there is no evidence that Epstein was murdered. Authorities also released 10 hours of prison security footage, which the department said showed no one entered Epstein's cell on the day of his death.
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