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| Britain's ambassador to the US breaks his silence on cozy relationship with Jeffrey Epstein |
| 2025-05-29 |
| [MAIL] Lord Mandelson has squirmed on live TV when he was confronted about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Britain's new ambassador to the US did not deny he stayed at the paedophile financier's New York home in 2009 after Epstein was jailed for child sex offences. 'I'm not answering any questions about him', Lord Mandelson said in response. Lord Mandelson was doorstepped by Sky News this week and looked uncomfortable. Epstein affectionately referred to Lord Mandelson as ‘Petie’. A photo, thought to have been taken in 2005 or 2006, showed Lord Mandelson shopping with Epstein at a boutique in the US Virgin Islands. He appeared to be trying on a belt. Sky reporter James Matthews asked him why he had associated with Epstein, even after he had been jailed for soliciting prostitution from a minor. Mr Matthews asked him if he had stayed with Epstein at that time. Lord Mandelson began to walk away but the camera crew stayed with him. When pressed again he said: 'My knowledge of him is something I regret, I wish I'd never met him in the first place'. Mr Matthews asked again: 'Why did you have an association with him? He was in jail at the time'. Lord Mandelson said: 'Why did many people meet him? He was a prolific networker. And I wish I'd never met him in the first place'. In March the Mail on Sunday revealed it appears Peter Mandelson could have met Jeffrey Epstein on a taxpayer-funded trip to America when the disgraced financier was under house arrest for sex offences. Epstein’s private schedule, unearthed by The Mail on Sunday, revealed Lord Mandelson was due to have two meetings with the convicted paedophile at his £60 million New York mansion on consecutive days in March, 2010, while on a trip that cost taxpayers more than £8,000. At the time Lord Mandelson was Business Secretary and First Secretary of State – effectively the second most powerful politician in Gordon Brown’s government as de facto deputy prime minister. Epstein, meanwhile, was under house arrest after being sentenced in 2008 to 18 months in jail by a Florida court for procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute. Lord Mandelson and the financier are believed to have been first introduced by Ghislaine Maxwell, who was jailed in 2022 for 20 years for helping Epstein traffic under-age girls. During his sentence Epstein was able to go on ‘work release’ to his Florida office for 12 hours a day, six days a week. He then faced a year under house arrest until July 2010. He spent much of that year at home in Palm Beach, Florida, but could also fly to his mansion in New York and his private island in the US Virgin Islands. |
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