He told his lawyer Epstein had tucked a suicide note inside one of the former officer’s books. He handed the note over to his legal team but its existence got scant mention in the years afterwards — even after Epstein’s suicide in a different cell about three weeks later was scrutinized by federal investigators and a skeptical public.

Epstein's former cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione -- a convicted quadruple murderer -- claimed that he found the note tucked in a book in the days after Epstein's first suicide attempt in July 2019. At the time, Epstein denied being suicidal and told a psychologist, "I have no interest in killing myself."

A note attributed to Jeffrey Epstein in his first suspected jail suicide attempt in 2019 has been made public. But that's not because of the U.S.

A note found by Jeffrey Epstein's former cellmate has been released, revealing insights into the circumstances surrounding Epstein's death, which the Justice Department is seeing for the first time.