Fresh reports about an alleged suicide note written by the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein have emerged, alleging that it has been kept hidden in a New York courthouse for seven years.
According to the New York Times, the alleged suicide note was found when Epstein was found unresponsive in his Manhattan jail cell, but he survived in July 2019.
The note was reportedly found by his then-cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, and is said to include the phrase “time to say goodbye,” though its full contents remain undisclosed.
Tartaglione is a former police officer convicted in a separate case of drug trafficking and the murder of four people.
Reports indicate that the alleged message predates Epstein's death by several weeks. Epstein died on August 10, 2019, while in federal custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in New York, where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
His death was officially ruled a suicide by hanging by the New York City medical examiner.
Tartaglione recalled that detectives had spent months looking into Epstein and had "found nothing." "What do you want me to do, bust out crying?" Epstein stated in the suicide note, adding, "It's time to say goodbye."
