Overview
- The federal court in Manhattan, which unsealed the handwritten note Wednesday, released it at the New York Times’ request.
- The one-page note includes lines such as “They investigated me for months — FOUND NOTHING!!!” and “It is a real joy to choose when to say goodbye.”
- The document has not been authenticated as Epstein’s writing, and reporting says a co-inmate found it in July 2019 hidden in a comic after an earlier incident in his cell.
- The note had been kept under seal for years and was not in the December 2025 batch of photos, videos, and texts released by the Trump administration, a rollout criticized for redactions and omissions.
- Epstein’s death on August 10, 2019 was ruled a suicide, and the note’s disclosure has renewed public skepticism that could spur more court petitions to open remaining files.