An inmate serving multiple life sentences for murder claims he discovered what appears to be a suicide note from Jeffrey Epstein during the brief period they shared a cell in 2019.
According to Western Journal, Nicholas Tartaglione, a former police officer now incarcerated for multiple homicides, said he found the note in July 2019, when Epstein was first reported to have attempted suicide. Tartaglione maintains the discovery came shortly after Epstein was found with a cloth around his neck in what authorities described as his initial suicide attempt, an episode that preceded Epsteins controversial death the following month.
Epstein died in August 2019, with his death officially ruled a suicide, yet the case has fueled persistent suspicions that a man with deep ties to global elites may have been silenced rather than left to face justice. Tartaglione was removed from Epsteins cell after the disgraced financier and alleged sex trafficker accused him of attempted strangulation, a claim that has only added to the murkiness surrounding the final weeks of Epsteins life.
The note, now sealed by a federal judge as part of Tartagliones criminal case, has become the subject of a legal push by The New York Times, which is seeking to have it unsealed and made public. Its existence remained largely unknown until last year, when Tartaglione disclosed it during a podcast appearance, raising fresh questions about what federal authorities chose to document and what they did not.
Speaking by phone from prison, Tartaglione said the note was hidden inside a graphic novel in the cell he shared with Epstein. I opened the book to read and there it was, he said, explaining that the message was written on paper torn from a yellow legal pad.
According to Tartaglione, Epstein wrote that after years of investigations, officials ultimately found nothing, a statement that, if authentic, would underscore Epsteins defiance even as his legal peril mounted. The note also read, What do you want me to do, bust out crying? Time to say goodbye, according to Tartaglione, language that could be interpreted either as resignation or as a man mocking the system pursuing him.
A court filing confirms the notes existence but offers no detail on how it became part of Tartagliones case file, leaving a gap that federal investigators have not publicly addressed. The note was never referenced in official federal reviews of Epsteins death, and The New York Times reported that the Justice Departments Office of the Inspector General declined to comment, a silence that will only deepen skepticism among Americans already wary of a justice system that often seems to shield the powerful while punishing everyone else.
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