A suicide note allegedly written by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been made public by a court  .

Amid ongoing controversy over his death in 2019 while awaiting trial on human trafficking charges, New York District Court Judge Kenneth M. Karas ordered the note to be made public on Wednesday.

The note, which was released, reads, “They investigated me for months, found nothing .” Noting that the allegations were years old, he wrote, “It’s an opportunity to choose when to say goodbye. What do you want from me—to see me cry? It’s not fun—it makes no sense .”

The note was first reported by the New York Times last week 

Nicholas Tartaglione, a former inmate who was with Epstein in a Manhattan correctional facility, said he found the note in July 2019. Epstein was found unconscious in his cell shortly after. He survived, but was found dead in his cell a few weeks later. His death was ruled a suicide.

U.S. District Judge Karas, who is handling Tartaglione's criminal case, ordered the declassification of the note at the request of the New York Times. The note was kept secret for a long time, even though the Justice Department has released millions of documents related to the Epstein investigation.

Tartaglione's lawyers have claimed that the note is genuine. But they have not explained how it was authenticated, and no court or investigative body has officially confirmed it. The note is handwritten on a single sheet of lined paper.

Tartaglione, a former police officer charged with four murders, said in a podcast last year that he gave the note to his lawyer, who then turned it over to the judge hearing his case. The judge then ordered the note to remain confidential, but agreed to make it public after a request from The New York Times.

Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to two counts of solicitation of prostitution, one of which involved a minor. He was arrested in 2019 on federal human trafficking charges and died in custody in a Manhattan jail that same year.