{"id":399240,"date":"2026-01-30T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399240\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:49:08","slug":"epstein-files-latest-us-justice-department-releasing-more-than-three-million-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399240\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein files latest: US justice department releasing more than three million pages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emails show Mandelson asking to stay at Epstein’s propertypublished at 17:54 GMT<\/p>\n

17:54 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Jack Fenwick
Political correspondent<\/p>\n

In one set of released emails, Lord Peter Mandelson, who was
\nsacked as the UK\u2019s ambassador to the US last year over his links to
\nEpstein, discussed staying at the financier\u2019s property.<\/p>\n

The emails are from 16 June 2009, when Epstein was serving
\na prison sentence for soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18.<\/p>\n

For much of his sentence, Epstein was allowed to work from
\nhis office during the day and returned to jail each night.<\/p>\n

Mandelson had been appointed as Gordon Brown\u2019s first
\nsecretary of state, effectively the de facto deputy prime minister, 11 days
\nearlier.<\/p>\n

Mandelson asked Epstein: \u201cShall I stay at yours
\nFriday-Sunday this weekend ?\u201d<\/p>\n

Epstein replied asking if he\u2019d prefer an apartment elsewhere
\nin New York and said he was \u201cthrilled to host and sad I\u2019m not there\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mandelson said there were better \u201cfacilities\u201d at Epstein\u2019s
\nproperty.<\/p>\n

At this point, Epstein replied to someone else and copied
\nMandelson in, asking them to \u201cimplement\u201d the arrangements.<\/p>\n

A previously released report by the JP Morgan bank suggested
\nthat Mandelson had stayed at Epstein\u2019s apartment in New York in 2009.<\/p>\n

Mandelson has repeatedly said he regrets his past friendship with Epstein, which has long been public knowledge. He has said he never saw any wrongdoing while with Epstein and “fell for his lies”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emails show Mandelson asking to stay at Epstein’s propertypublished at 17:54 GMT 17:54 GMT Jack FenwickPolitical correspondent In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-399240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}