Jeffrey Epstein reportedly sent a letter to convicted pedophile Larry Nassar before taking his own life in 2019, according to recent documents obtained by the Associated Press.
On Thursday this week (June 1) the outlet reportedly obtained a whopping 4,000 pages worth of documents that offered greater insight into the mental state of disgraced financier Epstein, who spent 36 days in Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center.
In August 2019, Epstein took his own life in his cell while he was in custody on federal charges of sex trafficking underage girls and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking, with some of his victims as young as 14.
Epstein, 66, was booked into prison a month earlier in July. In less than 24 hours he was segregated from the general population due to his notoriety among the prison population, but initially, he had tried to adjust to prison life by requesting permission for more outdoor exercise.
His mental health began to decline, however, when a judge denied his bail on July 18, The New York Post detailed. He attempted to take his own life soon after, but survived. Then, days later, he died by suicide in his cell.
The Associated Press has obtained thousands of pages of documents from the Bureau of Prisons under the Freedom of Information Act, including mention of a letter Epstein had penned to Nassar.
The unopened letter to Nassar - who sexually abused young girls under his care as a doctor for the US gymnastics team - was reportedly discovered weeks after Epstein's death, with the investigator who found it telling a prison official via email: "It appeared he mailed it out and it was returned back to him. I am not sure if I should open it or should we hand it over to anyone?"
In 2018, Nassar was sentenced to 60 years in prison after more than 150 women and girls testified in court that he sexually abused them over two decades. Per CNN, the disgraced doctor was told by Judge Rosemarie Aquilina at the sentencing: "I've just signed your death warrant. I find that you don't get it, that you're a danger. That you remain a danger."
Just last year, more than 90 women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by Nassar announced that they would be filing a $1 billion lawsuit against both the FBI and the Justice Department over the failure to investigate the doctor despite receiving credible information about his crimes.
Plaintiffs include Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, and McKayla Maroney.
As for the thousands of documents obtained by the Associated Press, they did not include the letter sent by Epstein to Nassar.
Though, they did include a psychological reconstruction of Epstein's death that shed light on the convicted pedophile's behavior leading up to his suicide. He allegedly called himself a "coward" and complained he was struggling to adapt to life as a prisoner.
In the weeks preceding his death, Epstein reportedly sat in the corner of his cell with a blank expression on his face, struggling with the continuous sound of a broken toilet that wouldn't stop running.
