A note that a former cellmate said he discovered after Jeffrey Epstein’s first suspected jail suicide attempt was penned by the same person as a note that authorities found in the millionaire sex offender’s cell after he killed himself three weeks later, handwriting expert says.
This document released May 6, 2026, by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, shows a note that Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate said he found after Epstein’s reported suicide attempt on July 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
This undated photo released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows a photograph of a handwritten note complaining about jail conditions that was discovered in Jeffrey Epstein’s cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City after Epstein’s suicide. (U.S. Department of Justice via AP)
This March 28, 2017, photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — A note that a former cellmate said he discovered afterJeffrey Epstein’sfirst suspected jail suicide attempt was all but certainly penned by the same person as a note that authorities found in the millionaire sex offender’s cell after hekilled himself, handwriting experts say.
Three forensic document examiners who reviewed the notes at the request of The Associated Press concluded that they have or appear to have common authorship, with shared characteristics such as the same spacing, letter shapes, usage of capital letters and unique punctuation.
In the first note, made public this week, the writer states: “They investigated me for month — found nothing!!!” and talks about being able to choose the “time to say goodbye.” The other note, which has been public for years, is a list of grievances about conditions at the jail, including the showers, food and “Giant Bugs.”
