A federal judge in New York unsealed a purported Epstein suicide note in early May 2026 after The New York Times petitioned the court in an unrelated criminal case involving Epstein’s former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione. The one-page handwritten document, reportedly found by the cellmate after Epstein’s July 2019 suicide attempt, references an investigation that “found nothing” and expresses a desire to “choose one’s time to say goodbye.” It remains unauthenticated by media outlets or authorities and was not part of broader Department of Justice Epstein file releases. This court-ordered unsealing represents the primary verified development shaping trader assessments of release timing, source, and authenticity amid ongoing public interest in Epstein-related materials.