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Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was connected with several prominent people including politicians, actors and academics. Epstein was convicted of having sex with a girl.
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- A US judge ordered the release of a suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein.
- The note was said to have been found by Nicholas Tartaglione, his former jail cellmate.
- The judge did not vouch for the note’s authenticity, nor assess its chain of custody.
A federal judge on Wednesday released a document described as a suicide note purportedly written by the late Jeffrey Epstein and including the line: “It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye.”
Epstein, the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker, was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 in what was ruled a suicide.