The note, allegedly written by the convicted paedophile and former financier to the stars, has been made public for the first time – he was found dead inside his cell in 2019
In this handout, the mug shot of Jeffrey Epstein, 2019. (Photo by Kypros/Getty Images)(Image: Kypros)
A suicide note allegedly written by infamous paedophile and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has been released for the first time, after being sealed for years after his death in 2019. The note, according to The New York Times reads: “They investigated me for months — FOUND NOTHING!!!’.
‘It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye. Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!!’
It concludes with ‘NO FUN’, with those words being underlined, followed by ‘NOT WORTH IT!!”
The note is believed to be from Epstein’s first suicide attempt, in July 2019(Image: US District Judge Southern District of NY)
The note was supposedly found after his first failed suicide attempt in July 2019. Only two weeks later, Epstein tried again and had more success. He died by suicide inside his cell on August 10 at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in New York City, aged 66.
Epstein was found “with an orange cloth around his neck” and “friction marks” on his neck in July 2019, according to a report by the US Department of Justice’s office of the inspector general (OIG). Epstein’s cellmate told officers Epstein tried to hang himself.
The convicted child sex offender, was found unresponsive in his jail cell at 6.30am by prison guards at New York jail where he was awaiting trial sex trafficking sex charges. Guards say they found him hanging off the side of the bed in his cell – they then tried to perform CPR on Epstein before he was rushed to a nearby hospital in cardiac arrest.
From left, American real estate developer and current US President Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in 2000(Image: Getty Images)
He was pronounced dead at 6.39am, nine minutes after he was found unresponsive. The New York City medical examiner and the Justice Department Inspector General ruled that Epstein’s death was a suicide by hanging.
Despite being placed under suicide watch after he was found semiconscious in his cell two weeks before his death, he denied being suicidal.
The note was unsealed on Wednesday (May 6) by a federal judge, following a story last week that appeared in the New York Times telling of the note’s existence. The newspaper petitioned the court in White Plains, New York, and won – with the file made public for the first time every on Wednesday.
Epstein’s cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione found the note after the failed attempt, and it ended up being part of his own criminal case.
Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on multiple sex-trafficking charges from alleged incidents spanning from 2002 to 2005, with some charges involving the sexual abuse of underage girls as young as 14.
Epstein’s so-called suicide note comes seven years after his death in 2019 and, despite years having passed since his death, Epstein is far from being a distant memory for many: the brave women and girls who survived him, as well as several others.
Virginia Giuffre had claimed she trafficked to the UK for sex with the now former Prince Andrew.(Image: US District Court – Southern Dis)
The US judicial system has been exposing those connected to the convicted paedophile by way of the Epstein Files, an unsealed tranche of thousands of photos, documents, emails, letters, and everything in between. The unsealed files, compiled by investigators and submitted to US courts, chronicle his activities and social network with the first of five file dumps made public in 2024.
The Epstein Files have exposed a number of high-profile people that were in his social and business network, including US President Donald Trump, former Presidents Bill Clinton, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, the Dalai Lama, Michael Jackson, Naomi Campbell, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Spacey, David Copperfield, Bruce Willis, Cameron Diaz, Cate Blanchett, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor – or, Prince Andrew, with his royal title lost thanks to Epstein – and British diplomat Lord Peter Mandelson.
Disturbing photos in the Epstein Files appear to show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on all fours over a woman on the ground(Image: DoJ)
Inclusion in the Epstein Files does not indicate any wrongdoing on the part of the people mentioned above. Some have also refuted their alleged links to Epstein.
Lord Mandelson, former UK ambassador to the US, was arrested in February of this year amid a misconduct probe stemming from his ties to Epstein. He was subsequently released on bail pending an additional investigation.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (left) and Lord Peter Mandelson pictured in bathrobes alongside Jeffrey Epstein (centre). The undated photograph has been unearthed as part of the US department of justice’s Epstein-related document dump earlier in 2026(Image: PA)
Recent articles have chronicled Epstein’s relationship with two of Britain’s biggest names in the Epstein Files – disgraced former royal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Mandelson. It was reported last week that the pair met for the first time at a lunch in Buckingham Palace about the prevention of child cruelty in 1999, just weeks before they were photographed in bathrobes next to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
