Epstein's brother claimed to have forged the financier's suicide note

Mark Epstein, the brother of Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier convicted of sexual crimes, said on May 8 that the previously published suicide note did not belong to him, and he himself could not commit suicide.

"I've known Jeffrey all my life. If he was going to commit suicide, if he was going to write a suicide note, he would have written it to someone, not just a general goodbye. <...> I don't believe it," he said in an interview with the National Enquirer magazine.

In addition, the financier's brother stated that there were "other bruises" on his body, which the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York ignored. In his opinion, these footprints prove that Epstein's death could not have been suicide.

"In July, when Jeffrey's cellmate attacked him, he reported it, told his lawyer about it, and then rejected this version, saying he did not remember what happened because he was afraid of revenge," the financier's brother added.

Mark Epstein concluded that the upcoming independent expert assessment will "definitively" show that his brother did not commit suicide.

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The New York Times (NYT) reported on May 6 that a suicide note allegedly written by Epstein had been made public by a New York Federal Court. According to the newspaper, the document was kept secret for several years as part of the criminal case of Epstein's former cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione. He claimed to have found the note in July 2019 after the financier was found unconscious in his cell. A few weeks after the incident, Epstein was found dead in a prison in Lower Manhattan.