"The very first story he told prison officials was that his cellmate tried to kill him." Epstein's brother, Mark, continues to maintain that Jeffrey Epstein didn't take his own life, as does Maxwell. "BB [Barkett] visited NT [Tartaglione] and NT told him JE [Jeffrey Epstein] left him a note in his book. "BB told NT to give it to give it to next lawyer that visits him." "The assault/attempted suicide remains one of the most suspicious aspects of Epstein’s death," Brown wrote.