Judge Kenneth M. Karas, of the federal district court in New York, has ordered the publication this Wednesday of the alleged suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein. The document has remained under summary secrecy in the judicial investigation related to the financier’s cellmate accused of pedophilia and creating a sexual exploitation network.
“They investigated me for months, THEY FOUND NOTHING!!!”, states the advance note, for The New York Times. The text, whose authorship cannot be certified as Epstein’s, adds that he was accused of crimes dating back 15 years. “It is a privilege to be able to choose the moment to say goodbye,” adds the document written on a yellow notepad. In the seven-line note, Epstein supposedly wrote: “What do you want me to do? I’m going to cry!!” And he concludes: “IT’S NOT FUNNY!!”, he concludes, with those words underlined. “IT’S NOT WORTH IT!!”
This is the latest episode of Jeffrey Epstein’s scandalous soap opera, whose reverberations, after the judicial investigation that has brought to light his relationships with millionaires, politicians and public figures from half the world, resonate even today, seven years after officials at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan, the prison in which he was detained, found his lifeless body in 2019. The coroner certified his death and attributed it to a suicide.
One of the judicial investigations is related to Nicholas Tartaglione, the cellmate of the New York financier, who for decades . Epstein allegedly offered some of these influential people sexual services from women he prostituted, minors in some cases, or invited them to his house where he organized wild parties.
Tartaglione testified during the investigation that he had discovered a suicide note from Epstein in July 2019, just after the “greatest sexual predator in history,” as a judge described him, was found unconscious with a cord around his neck. Although he managed to survive that murky episode, weeks later he was found dead. He was 66 years old and had been in the spotlight for a decade for being accused of being a pimp and a pedophile.
Tartaglione is a former New York district police officer accused of quadruple murder, conspiracy to distribute cocaine and attempted kidnapping, currently serving several life sentences in a Florida prison. But years ago, when the judge investigated the note, he confessed that he found the alleged suicide confession, a sheet of yellow legal pad, between the pages of a graphic novel after doctors helped Epstein after his alleged first suicide attempt. “I opened the book to read and there it was,” Tartaglione told the Times.
The publication of the note, whose authorship has not been confirmed, occurs a week after The New York Times asked the judge to declassify it.
Judge Karas argued that Tartaglione already spoke publicly about the note in some interviews and therefore lost any attorney-client privilege protection. “None of the parties has identified any consideration that justifies keeping the note sealed,” the judge said in the order issued this Wednesday.
Epstein’s death has become another matter of political controversy. For years, the environment of followers of the MAGA current (Make America Great Again), defenders of Donald Trump, spread several conspiracy theories that suggested that Epstein did not commit suicide. They cited alleged security failures and claimed, without evidence and against forensic evidence, that Epstein was murdered by order of members of the United States financial and political elite, linked to the Democratic Party.
The theory began to dissipate when it became known that Epstein had maintained a close relationship with Trump for years. The president of the United States claims that he cut off the relationship in 2004, when he received complaints from employees of his Mar-a-Lago residential complex in Florida. His name has been cited more than 5,000 times in recent months by the Department of Justice, although, so far, no compromising mention has been found.
In any case, the management of the case has been full of confusion that has given rise to speculation. After prison officials found Epstein not breathing, in what has been called the first suicide attempt, they asked him about the red marks on his neck. In his initial statement, the financier assured that it was due to an attack by his cellmate and insisted that he did not have suicidal tendencies. However, Tartaglione always denied it and declared that he “never had any problem” with Epstein, according to the reconstruction carried out by the Times.
