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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Edward Helmore

The strange case of Epstein cellmate and quadruple murderer Nicholas Tartaglione

A handwritten note with messy handwriting
The note that Jeffrey Epstein's former cellmate said he found after Epstein's reported suicide attempt on 23 July 2019. Photograph: Jon Elswick/AP

In the murky world of criminal misadventure, what happened at the Likquid Lounge in Chester, New York, on a night in April 2016 may have some bearing on Jeffrey Epstein’s death in federal custody three years later.

In many ways what happened there has become a conspiracy theory within a conspiracy theory. For while speculation about the actions of Epstein and his circle has long spread across the US, the Likquid Lounge is at the center of a fresh mystery of exactly how Epstein died.

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