diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7bde423ef..e9be1a28e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Fixes
+
+- Android tombstone parsing via `AndroidTombstoneEnabled` no longer fails with `NoClassDefFoundError`. The SDK now ships with its `epitaph` dependency. If you added `com.abovevacant:epitaph` to your Gradle template as a workaround, remove it to avoid duplicate classes. ([#2879](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-unity/pull/2879))
+
 ### Features
 
 - Added the `NativeHandlerPath` option. It sets `handler_path` on the native SDK, so the out-of-process crash handler can be placed somewhere other than next to the player executable. Left unset, sentry-native keeps looking for the handler next to the executable as before. ([#2881](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-unity/pull/2881))
diff --git a/build/native-sdks.targets b/build/native-sdks.targets
index cc69718b8..c5008ba7b 100644
--- a/build/native-sdks.targets
+++ b/build/native-sdks.targets
@@ -330,6 +330,21 @@
     <Error Condition="!Exists('$(SentryNativeNdkLocalAar)')" Text="sentry-native-ndk-release.aar not produced at $(SentryNativeNdkLocalAar). PublishNativeNdkLocal may have failed." />
     <Copy SourceFiles="$(SentryNativeNdkLocalAar)" DestinationFiles="$(SentryAndroidArtifactsDestination)sentry-native-ndk-release.aar" />
 
+    <!-- sentry-android-core parses tombstones with epitaph, a Maven dependency that local AARs don't
+         pull in. Ship the jar resolved by the Gradle build above; Unity picks up `libs/*.jar`.
+         CI starts with an empty Gradle cache, so the only cached version is the one sentry-java resolved. -->
+    <PropertyGroup>
+      <GradleUserHome>$(GRADLE_USER_HOME)</GradleUserHome>
+      <GradleUserHome Condition="'$(GradleUserHome)' == ''">$([System.Environment]::GetFolderPath(SpecialFolder.UserProfile))/.gradle</GradleUserHome>
+      <EpitaphCacheDir>$(GradleUserHome)/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.abovevacant/epitaph/</EpitaphCacheDir>
+    </PropertyGroup>
+    <ItemGroup>
+      <EpitaphJar Include="$(EpitaphCacheDir)*/*/epitaph-*.jar" Exclude="$(EpitaphCacheDir)**/*-sources.jar" />
+    </ItemGroup>
+    <Error Condition="@(EpitaphJar->Count()) == 0" Text="epitaph jar not found in the Gradle cache at $(EpitaphCacheDir). The Gradle build likely failed." />
+    <Error Condition="@(EpitaphJar->Count()) &gt; 1" Text="Multiple epitaph jars cached in $(EpitaphCacheDir). Delete that directory and rebuild." />
+    <Copy SourceFiles="@(EpitaphJar)" DestinationFiles="$(SentryAndroidArtifactsDestination)epitaph.jar" />
+
     <Error Condition="!Exists('$(SentryAndroidArtifactsDestination)')" Text="Failed to set up the Android SDK." />
   </Target>
 
diff --git a/test/Scripts.Tests/package-release.zip.snapshot b/test/Scripts.Tests/package-release.zip.snapshot
index cda6e92ef..5d884886c 100644
--- a/test/Scripts.Tests/package-release.zip.snapshot
+++ b/test/Scripts.Tests/package-release.zip.snapshot
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ Plugins/Linux/Sentry~/libsentry-native.so
 Plugins/Linux/Sentry~/libsentry.dbg.so
 Plugins/Android/proguard-sentry-unity.pro
 Plugins/Android/proguard-sentry-unity.pro.meta
+Plugins/Android/Sentry~/epitaph.jar
 Plugins/Android/Sentry~/sentry-android-core-release.aar
 Plugins/Android/Sentry~/sentry-android-ndk-release.aar
 Plugins/Android/Sentry~/sentry-native-ndk-release.aar