A federal judge has released a suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein that was sealed for years as part of the criminal case of his cellmate.

“They investigated me for months – FOUND NOTHING!!!” the note begins, adding that the result were charges going back many years.

“It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye,” the note continued.

“Watcha want me to do – Bust out cryin!!” the note reads.

“NO FUN,” it concludes, with those words underlined. “NOT WORTH IT!!”

Epstein’s cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, said he discovered the note in July 2019 after Epstein was found unresponsive with a strip of cloth wrapped around his neck. Epstein survived that incident, but he was found dead weeks later at age 66 in the now shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan.

The note was made public on May 6 by Judge Kenneth M Karas of US District Court in White Plains, New York, who oversaw the cellmate’s case.

The judge acted after The New York Times petitioned the court last week to unseal the document and published an article in which Tartaglione described the note and how it came into his possession.

The Times has not authenticated the note, which was placed on the court docket in the evening of May 6.

The document remained hidden from public view even as the Justice Department released millions of pages of documents related to Epstein in a move of unprecedented transparency. The Times searched those records and did not find a copy of the note. A spokesperson from the Justice Department said the agency had never seen it.

The search did turn up a cryptic two-page chronology that described how the note became caught up in Tartaglione’s complicated legal case. The chronology said that Tartaglione’s lawyers authenticated the note, though it did not explain how.