They killed Epstein and wrote his suicide note

Proving a negative all over again.

May 07, 2026

There is only one newspaper in this country capable of covering the Jeffrey Epstein story, and that’s the New York Times. When the paper got wind of a suicide note obtained by Epstein’s cellmate, it filed a petition with a New York judge to release the note, which had been sealed for years. The cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, was convicted in a quadruple murder case and is currently serving four life sentences. His lawyers, after years of wrangling over possession of the letter, and attorney-client privilege, did not object to the judge granting the NYT’s petition.

So the paper has the note, which it published, adding that it has not authenticated the claim that Epstein wrote it. It says:

They investigated me for a month - found NOTHING!
So 15 year old charges [unreadable].
It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye.
Watcha want me to do - Bust out cryin!!
NO FUN - NOT WORTH IT!!

One little fact worth discussing is that this note was not left before Epstein was found dead in his cell. According to reports, it was left and obtained by Tartaglione after Epstein purportedly attempted suicide, some weeks before his actual death. So this was a suicide note that Epstein allegedly wrote before surviving a suicide attempt, and then never tried to get it back or destroy it. Tartaglione claims he found it in a graphic novel, written on yellow paper from a legal pad.

I suppose you can call it a suicide note if Epstein actually tried to kill himself on either occasion, the one where he didn’t die and the one where he did. And Tartaglione’s lawyers said they were able to authenticate the note, though they didn’t say how.

The NYT article zeroed in on phrases Epstein had used in emails, found in the note, like “No fun,” and “but out cryin’.” It would seem that the note is written in a style that Epstein would have used, but again, there’s no authoritative proof of any of this.

There will be people who will never be convinced. If Epstein was really killed in the Metropolitan Correctional Center (which has since been shut down), then his killers did a poor job of controlling the scene. Why would the killers not leave a suicide note after the second (successful) attempt, but did leave one at the first attempt, and allowed Epstein’s cellmate to have it?

What if Tartaglione was part of the conspiracy? I mean the Epstein case goes to the very top: the elite of the entire world, from now-sacked royalty, to former presidents, to the current president. College professors, CEOs of large corporations: the list seems endless—powerful or influential men caught up in the net of Epstein’s “fun.” The list of victims, young women who were paid or lured into a life of, well it is what it is, prostitution, is also long and sad.

It would seem to be within the grasp of such powerful men, some of whom at times could order a nuclear strike, or have men dressed in tactical black use seemingly alien tech to pluck a head of state from his own palace, to order and arrange the killing of a single man, and make it look like a suicide.

Then again, such men would probably want to cover this up to the point of having to kill anyone who was involved. If it was a conspiracy, how can it be that not a single stool pigeon has emerged? You’d think someone would talk.

But it’s the trade craft of conspiracy theorists to assume complete and unbreakable secrecy surrounding their conspiracies. It’s the ploy “nobody talks about this” while talking about it incessantly that feeds these unending attempts to bait others into proving a negative.

The straightforward answer here is that the walls closed in on Jeffrey Epstein. The men and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell had too much to lose by doing anything overt or risky. They simply wanted Epstein to go away, preferably to prison, for a very long time. Any claims Epstein, as a living person, made could be refuted. But as a dead man, there’s no refuting anything. Epstein was depressed, and saw the literal writing on the wall. He was surely headed to prison. Whatever claims he could make against the powerful men involved in his life would not change his fate.

To me, it seems much more damaging for Epstein to write how it’s a “treat” to decide when to exit life’s stage and let the others fight over what’s true and what isn’t true.

It’s impossible to prove a negative unless you refute every possibility, no matter how remote. So there will be people who claim that the killers wrote the suicide note, planted it in the book, or that Tartaglione was in on the scheme. Of course, I don’t see evidence of that, but perhaps if Tartaglione is imprisoned on federal charges, and ends up pardoned, we might guess why.

By ending his time on earth, Epstein has done far more damage to the people whose secrets he kept, than he could ever do on the witness stand or in interviews with newspapers. Who else would have more motivation to kill Epstein, than Epstein himself?

Yet some people will never be convinced.

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