EPSTEIN’S LAST WORDS

‘I’ll see you Sunday’

Jeffrey Epstein was in good spirits in the days before his suicide, and was confident he’d get out on bail and make a deal wi t h prosecutors, a source told The Post.

Jeffrey Epstein was confident he could fight the child sex-trafficking charges against him and was in “great spirits” just hours before his jailhouse death last Saturday — telling one of his lawyers, “I’ll see you Sunday,” The Post has learned.

The convicted pedophile’s optimism — expressed during daily visits with his lawyers at his Manhattan lockup that lasted up to 12 hours each — was so great that it struck some of those around him as “delusional,” according to a source familiar with Epstein’s case.

“He thought he was going to win the double-jeopardy motion” that his defense lawyers were planning to file in connection with his 2008 Florida prostitution conviction, the source said.

The multimillionaire — who was ordered held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center by a judge who cited his “uncontrollable” sexual urges — also “had hope of getting bail on appeal,” the source said.

That application was pending before the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals at the time of his death.

“What he really wanted to do was get bail so he could cooperate,” the source said.

But whatever evidence Epstein may have had against his rich and powerful former friends died with him, because he kept no diary or notes that documented any alleged wrongdoing, the source said.

“He was delusional,” the source said. “He thought he was going to get the same deal he got in Florida.”

Epstein, 66, pleaded guilty to two state charges of solicitation of prostitution — one involving a minor — as part of a sweetheart deal in which then-Miami US Attorney Alex Acosta approved a nonprosecution agreement over allegations the financier sexually abused dozens of underage girls at his waterfront mansion in Palm Beach.

Acosta was forced to resign as US labor secretary last month over controversy sparked by Epstein’s July 6 arrest on a child sextrafficking indictment obtained by Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who said he was not bound by the nonprosecution agreement in Florida.

The Manhattan federal indictment accused Epstein of abusing dozens of underage girls between 2002 and 2005 at locations including his Upper East Side townhouse and Palm Beach mansion.

Epstein’s properties also included a private island, Little St. James, in the US Virgin Islands and the “Zorro Ranch” in New Mexico that includes a sprawling mansion, landing strip and airplane hangar.

While locked up at the MCC, Epstein’s mood rarely wavered during the seven-days-a-week meetings with his lawyers, which routinely began at 8 a.m., the source said.

“Every day, he was very positive and the night before [he died], he was real positive,” the source said. “He was in great spirits the night before.”

Epstein even told a lawyer who met with him on Friday — one day before the US Bureau of Prisons has said he was found “unresponsive” in his cell — that he was looking forward to their next visit.

“He was like, ‘I’ll see you Sunday,’ ” the source said.

It’s unclear whether Epstein’s sustained sunny disposition was sincere, or part of an elaborate act designed to enable him to kill himself.

At about 6:30 a.m. Saturday, he was found kneeling his six-foot frame with a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and secured to the top of a bunk bed in his cell, law-enforcement officials have said.

Paramedics tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at

NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital.

Epstein’s death followed a July 23 incident in which he was found nearly unconscious on the floor of his cell with marks on his neck and was placed on a suicide watch, law-enforcement officials have said.

He was removed from the suicide watch on July 29 at the request of his defense lawyers, according to published reports.

The US Bureau of Prisons, which runs the MCC, declined to comment, citing investigations into Epstein’s death by the FBI and the Justice Department Office of the Inspector General.

Epstein’s legal team didn’t return a request for comment.