A note purportedly found after Jeffrey Epstein's first suspected suicide attempt has been released by a US judge after being sealed for nearly five years. The note was part of an unrelated legal dispute involving Epstein's former cellmate.

A note Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate claimed he found after the financier’s first suspected jail suicide attempt was made public on Wednesday after it had been sealed and locked in a courthouse vault for nearly five years as part of an unrelated legal dispute. US District Judge Kenneth Karas in White Plains, New York, ordered the note’s release after The New York Times petitioned last week to unseal it and other documents in a case involving the cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione. Few people had...