Epstein bombshell leads expert to wonder if death was hoax: 'Was this all a ruse?'

A CNN legal analyst said a purported suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein raises serious new questions — even about whether or not he's still alive.

The New York Times reported that another inmate at the Manhattan detention center where Epstein was held on sex trafficking charges claimed he found a suicide note — which has been locked inside the case file until recently.

Epstein's former cellmate, convicted quadruple murderer Nicholas Tartaglione, claimed to have found the missive in July 2019 after the disgraced financier was found with a homemade noose around his neck.

"So you have to question, right, what we call the veracity," the expert, Joey Jackson, said.

"Is it something that we could credit, the fact that he said it? That I found this note, it said 'time to say goodbye.' It had a smiley face?

"What am I going to do now? Burst out in tears? They found nothing, meaning, indicating what was on that particular note and what ends up happening in courts of law is that there's something called a chain of custody. If you want to admit anything into evidence – we're not talking about an evidentiary proceeding here, we're talking about why it's not in the files and whether it's authentic."

"It has to be authenticated, and so was it a forgery, was it not?" he added. "They were roommates for two weeks. Did he learn his patterns, right? Was he planning, Tartaglione, his cellmate, something nefarious against Epstein? So I think we have to really evaluate and question the note and its authenticity."

The purported note is potentially significant because it shows Epstein's state of mind in the days before he was found dead on August 10, 2019, in his cell.

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