A United States District Judge has authorized the public release of a handwritten document alleged to be a suicide note authored by Jeffrey Epstein prior to his 2019 death.

一名美國地方法院法官已授權公開一份手寫文件，據稱是 Jeffrey Epstein 在 2019 年死亡前撰寫的自殺遺書。

The document was unsealed by Judge Kenneth Karas of the Southern District of New York following a legal petition by The New York Times. The note, which is undated and unsigned, was reportedly discovered by Nicholas Tartaglione, a former police officer and convicted murderer who shared a cell with Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in July 2019. According to Tartaglione, the note was located within a graphic novel following an initial, unsuccessful suicide attempt by Epstein. The text contains assertions that investigators had found nothing despite months of scrutiny and concludes with a phrase referencing a 1931 film, 'Little Daddy.'

在《紐約時報》提交法律請願後，紐約南區地方法院的 Kenneth Karas 法官解封了該文件。據報導，這封未標註日期且未簽名的信件是由 Nicholas Tartaglione 發現的，他是一名前警察兼被定罪的謀殺犯，於 2019 年 7 月在大都會矯正中心與 Epstein 共用囚室。根據 Tartaglione 的說法，這封信是在 Epstein 第一次自殺未遂後，被放置在一本圖像小說中。文中聲稱調查人員儘管經過數月的審查仍未發現任何線索，並以一句引用 1931 年電影《Little Daddy》的短語作結。

Legal counsel for Tartaglione maintained that the document served as exculpatory evidence to refute allegations made by Epstein, who had initially claimed Tartaglione assaulted him during the July incident. While Tartaglione's legal team asserts the note was authenticated by experts, the Department of Justice indicated it had not previously encountered the document, as it was submitted within the sealed proceedings of Tartaglione's criminal case. Judge Karas determined that the document's status as a judicial record necessitated public access, noting that Tartaglione's prior public mentions of the note constituted a waiver of attorney-client privilege.

Tartaglione 的法律顧問堅持認為，該文件可作為脫罪證據，用以反駁 Epstein 的指控，Epstein 最初聲稱 Tartaglione 在 7 月的事件中襲擊了他。儘管 Tartaglione 的法律團隊主張該信件已由專家驗證，但司法部表示此前未曾接觸過該文件，因為它是提交在 Tartaglione 刑事案件的密封程序中。Karas 法官認定該文件作為司法記錄，必須對公眾開放，並指出 Tartaglione 此前在公開場合提及該信件，已構成放棄律師與客戶間的保密特權。

Parallel to this development, the House Oversight Committee continues its inquiry into the federal government's management of the Epstein investigation. Recent testimony involved Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, whose prior assertions regarding the cessation of his relationship with Epstein in 2005 were contradicted by documents indicating contact until 2012. This occurs amidst a broader institutional effort to release millions of pages of investigative files under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, though the completeness of these disclosures remains a subject of legislative scrutiny.

與此發展平行，眾議院監督委員會繼續調查聯邦政府對 Epstein 調查的處理情況。近期證詞涉及商務部長 Howard Lutnick，他此前聲稱 2005 年已停止與 Epstein 的關係，但文件顯示兩人直到 2012 年仍有聯繫。這發生在政府根據《Epstein 文件透明法案》試圖公開數百萬頁調查檔案的更廣泛制度努力之中，儘管這些披露的完整性仍是立法審查的對象。

The purported note is now public, though its authenticity remains unverified by independent authorities.

這封據稱的遺書現已公開，但其真實性尚未得到獨立權威機構的驗證。