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作者：法里斯·塔尼奥斯（Faris Tanyos）
法里斯·塔尼奥斯是CBSNews.com的新闻编辑，负责撰写、编辑新闻稿件并追踪突发新闻。他此前曾在西海岸多家地方电视台担任数字新闻制作人。查看完整简历
已故定罪性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦2019年写下的疑似自杀遗书于周三公布。
美国一名地区法官应《纽约时报》的要求下令公开这份文件。
该遗书于2021年5月作为爱泼斯坦前狱友尼古拉斯·塔尔塔廖内（Nicholas Tartaglione）刑事谋杀案的证据提交给法庭。塔尔塔廖内此前曾声称，这份遗书是爱泼斯坦在去世前不到一个月的一次未遂自杀后写下的。
塔尔塔廖内在一档播客采访中称，他在爱泼斯坦去世后的第二天早上在一本书中发现了这份遗书，并交给了自己的律师，律师将其纳入了上诉材料。联邦监狱局的记录中并未提及这份遗书。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻未对该遗书进行独立核实。我们已联系联邦调查局和司法部置评。
这份字迹潦草的遗书内容似乎为：“他们调查了我一个月——一无所获！！！因此才以15年前的指控起诉。”
遗书还包含“该说再见了”和“毫无乐趣——不值得！！”等语句。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻此前曾报道，2019年7月23日，也就是爱泼斯坦去世前18天，他称自己在两人共用的牢房里遭到塔尔塔廖内的袭击。不过，前司法部长比尔·巴尔后来在众议院监督委员会作证时表示，7月23日的事件被视为“一起未遂自杀事件”。
2008年，爱泼斯坦在佛罗里达州承认了招揽卖淫的州级指控，以此换取联邦指控被撤销。他在县监狱服刑13个月，并被要求登记为性犯罪者。
随后在2019年7月，纽约联邦大陪审团以儿童性交易罪名起诉他。2019年8月10日，爱泼斯坦被发现在纽约大都会惩教中心的牢房内死亡。官方裁定其死因为自杀。
随着美国司法部近期公布数百万份与该调查相关的文件，其中部分文件披露了爱泼斯坦与知名人士的关联，他与权贵阶层的联系再次受到密切关注。
丹尼尔·鲁滕尼克、卡拉·塔巴奇尼克和雅各布·罗森对本文亦有贡献。
Jeffrey Epstein’s possible suicide note released by judge
May 6, 2026 / 7:59 PM EDT / CBS News
By Faris Tanyos
Faris Tanyos is a news editor for CBSNews.com, where he writes and edits stories and tracks breaking news. He previously worked as a digital news producer at several local news stations up and down the West Coast. Read Full Bio
An apparent suicide note written in 2019 by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released Wednesday.
A U.S. district judge ordered the release of the document at the request of The New York Times.
The note had been submitted to the court in May 2021 as part of the criminal murder case for Nicholas Tartaglione, a former cellmate of Epstein. Tartaglione has previously claimed that the note was written by Epstein after a failed suicide attempt less than a month before his death.
Tartaglione claimed in a podcast interview that he found the note in a book the morning after Epstein’s death, and he gave it to his lawyers, who included it in his appeal. The note was not mentioned in Bureau of Prisons records.
CBS News has not independently verified the note. CBS News has reached out to the FBI and Justice Department for comment.
The scrawled note appears to read: “They investigated me for month — found nothing!!! So 15 year old charges resulted.”
The note also includes the phrases “time to say goodbye” and “No fun — not worth it!!”
A possible suicide note written by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
CBS News previously reported that on July 23, 2019, 18 days before he died, Epstein claimed that he was attacked by Tartaglione in the cell they shared. However, former Attorney General Bill Barr later testified before the House Oversight Committee that the July 23 incident was “viewed as an attempted suicide.”
In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to state charges of soliciting prostitution in exchange for having a federal case against him dropped. He served 13 months in county jail and had to register as a sex offender.
Then, in July 2019, a New York federal grand jury indicted him on child sex trafficking charges. On Aug. 10, 2019, Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. His death was ruled a suicide.
Epstein’s connection to the rich and powerful has come under renewed scrutiny amid the recent release by the Justice Department of millions of documents related to the investigation, some of which showed his links to prominent figures.
Daniel Ruetenik, Cara Tabachnick and Jacob Rosen contributed to this report.
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