A judge releases a note that Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate says he found after Epstein’s first suspected jail suicide attempt in 2019. Multiple outlets report the note becomes public on Wednesday after it had been sealed and stored in a courthouse vault for nearly five years. The note was part of an unrelated legal dispute, and it remained inaccessible during that period.
According to the reports, The New York Times sought to unseal the document and other materials in the case involving the cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione. After the judge’s decision, the note is made available, and at least one account describes the note as short and containing a line implying investigators looked into him for months and found nothing. Another outlet reports that the U.S. Department of Justice is seeing the note for the first time following the unsealing.
The outlets characterize the disclosure as the release of a document tied to Epstein’s 2019 jail incident and the longer legal process surrounding evidence and filings in the separate Tartaglione matter.
