UK Ambassador told Epstein "I think the world of you"

[lostincalifornia]

"The day before Jeffrey Epstein reported to a Florida jail in June 2008 to begin serving time for soliciting sex from a minor, he received an outraged message from a friend anguished at the injustice of it all.

“I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened,” Peter Mandelson wrote, in an email obtained by Bloomberg News. “I can still barely understand it. It just could not happen in Britain.”

At the time, Mandelson was European Commissioner for Trade. Today he is the UK’s ambassador in Washington, the most prestigious posting in Britain’s diplomatic service and the latest in a decades-long career of high-profile positions in government and politics. And he finds himself at the center of a furor over his links to the serial sex abuser, after the publication this week of a 2003 birthday book in which Mandelson penned a 10-page tribute calling Epstein his “best pal.”

Now Bloomberg News has obtained more than 100 previously unreported emails between Epstein and Mandelson from 2005 through 2010, casting new light on the relationship between the two men and showing that it was deeper than previously known.

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Most of the messages are short and breezy, but Mandelson’s June 2008 email on the day before Epstein reported to jail stands out. “You have to be incredibly resilient, fight for early release and be philosophical about it as much as you can. The whole thing has been years of torture and now you have to show the world how big a person you are, and how strong,” Mandelson wrote. “Your friends stay with you and love you.”

Epstein’s 13-month stay in prison has since become infamous. It was the result of a “non-prosecution agreement” between his legal team and federal prosecutors, in which a federal sex trafficking investigation involving scores of underage girls was dropped in exchange for a guilty plea to lesser state charges. After that stint in jail, he remained free until his 2019 arrest and death in custody, which was ruled a suicide."


https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-jeffrey-epstein-emails-peter-mandelson/?srnd=homepage-americas

[RockRaven]

1. OF COURSE Prince Andrew was not the only secret sharing friend Epstein had in the UK.

And OF COURSE he has only moved up the political ladder.

[lostincalifornia]

2. From the same article regarding JP Morgan

"In June 2009, Epstein wrote to a senior executive at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Jes Staley, with whom he maintained frequent communication, and boasted of Mandelson’s influence. Mandelson had recently been named to the House of Lords, and as the UK’s business secretary he held a Cabinet-level role that put him back at the heart of power.

“for all intends and purposes peter mandelson is now deputy prime minister,” Epstein wrote. The email was publicly disclosed as part of a lawsuit brought by prosecutors in the US Virgin Islands who accused JPMorgan of facilitating Epstein’s sex-trafficking network. JPMorgan ultimately settled the case for $75 million."