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Jeffrey Epstein's cellmate says he found a suicide note in a book 99%
5/7/2026, 11:41:02 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Self-Serving Bias, Halo Effect, and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 24% saturation with 67 hits. Analysis detected 770 faulty-reasoning hits from 279 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 98.8% and a BS Rank of 99% (287 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 98.30% of the video peer group.
A note attributed to Jeffrey Epstein in his first suspected jail suicide attempt has been made public, but it's not because of the US Justice Department's release of records.
The note was released Wednesday as part of an unrelated case with a man who shared a cell with Jeffrey Epstein.
Nicholas Tartaglione, a former police officer who was then awaiting trial in a quadruple murder case, says he discovered the note tucked in a book after Epstein's first suicide attempt in 2019.
The short note, which is hard to decipher in some places and hasn't been authenticated, reads "They investigated me for a month, found nothing.
It is a treat to be able to choose the time to say goodbye."
Tartaglione said he gave the note to his lawyers to protect himself from any claims that he might have harmed Epstein while they were in custody together.
The government says it never had the note.
It had been in a vault in New York federal court since 2021.
It somehow became part of proceedings between Tartaglione and his lawyers over their representation of his murder case.
The New York Times petitioned the judge to release the purported suicide note, noting that Tartaglione, who's now serving a life sentence, has talked about it publicly.
The judge agreed, adding that Epstein's privacy interest in the note were now vastly reduced due to his death.
The Justice Department didn't object to the release of the note, but it's unclear whether the note is authentic or a forgery, and whether its cryptic language amounts to a suicide note as Tartaglione claims.
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