New York, 7 May (LaPresse/AP) – A note that Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate claims he wrote before his alleged suicide in prison has been made public, after being kept secret and locked in a court vault for almost five years as part of an unrelated legal dispute. US District Judge Kenneth Karas of White Plains, New York, ordered the note’s release after The New York Times filed a request last week to make it and other documents public in a case involving the cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione. Few people were aware of the note until Tartaglione, a former police officer serving a life sentence for the murder of four people, spoke about it in a podcast last year. Tartaglione claimed to have discovered the note in a book in his cell after Epstein was found on 23 July 2019 with a strip of bedsheet around his neck. “They investigated me for months — they found nothing!!!” reads the short note, which is difficult to decipher in places. “It’s a pleasure to be able to choose” the “moment to say goodbye”, the note continues. “What do you want me to do… Burst into tears!!” “IT’S NOT FUNNY,” the note concludes, with the words underlined. “IT’S NOT WORTH IT!!”.