{"id":130621,"date":"2025-09-09T07:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/130621\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:07:10","slug":"jeffrey-epstein-files-and-birthday-book-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/130621\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Epstein files and ‘birthday book’: What we know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Entries from 40 people, divided into several categories such as “friends”, “business”, “science” and “Brooklyn”, were published, though the names under “family” and “girl friends” were redacted.<\/p>\n

These people are not accused of any legal wrongdoing in connection with Epstein’s case.<\/p>\n

The alleged Donald Trump entry which appears on page 165, contains a signed note, with the final line reading: “Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret.” <\/p>\n

A woman’s body was drawn around the text. This matches descriptions by the Wall Street Journal which first reported the letter<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n

The White House said the president “did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it.” <\/p>\n

The document also contained a message which appears to have been written by former US President Bill Clinton. The author wrote about Epstein’s “childlike curiosity” and a “drive to make a difference”. <\/p>\n

Clinton’s office has not responded to a BBC request for comment. <\/p>\n

The entry by Lord Peter Mandelson, currently the UK ambassador to the US, calls Epstein “my best pal” and includes several photographs. <\/p>\n

Alongside one picture of Lord Mandelson with two women, whose faces are obscured, he writes about meeting Epstein’s interesting \u2013 in inverted commas \u2013 friends. <\/p>\n

An official spokesperson for Lord Mandelson has told the BBC that he “has long been clear that he very much regrets ever having been introduced to Epstein,” adding: “This connection has been a matter of public record for some time.”<\/p>\n

There isn’t a letter from Prince Andrew. But an entry from an unidentified woman says that thanks to Epstein she had met the Prince, Bill Clinton and Trump. The woman goes on to say she has “seen the private quarters of Buckingham Palace” and “sat on the Queen of England’s throne.” Prince Andrew has previously denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Entries from 40 people, divided into several categories such as “friends”, “business”, “science” and “Brooklyn”, were published, though…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":["post-130621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}