Will we get to see sometime in May the supposed suicide note Epstein left in his cell?

U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas of the Southern District of New York ordered the release on May 6, 2026, of a handwritten note that Jeffrey Epstein's former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, claimed to have discovered after Epstein's reported first suicide attempt at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in July 2019. The New York Times had sought the document's release. The brief note reads: "They investigated me for month[s] — found nothing! It is a treat to be able to choose one's time to say goodbye. NO FUN. NOT WORTH IT!" Judge Karas ruled the document was a judicial record subject to public access rights, but did not establish its authenticity. The Department of Justice stated it was seeing the note for the first time upon its public release. The document surfaced through sealed litigation involving Tartaglione's attorneys, separate from the parallel Justice Department Epstein records release. The community largely did not anticipate this development—only 14% predicted the note would become public in May—making this one of the month's bigger surprises.