{"id":402347,"date":"2026-02-01T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402347\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:43:07","slug":"jeffrey-epstein-sent-75000-to-lord-mandelson-linked-accounts-documents-appear-to-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402347\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Epstein sent $75,000 to Lord Mandelson linked accounts, documents appear to show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lord Mandelson was later sent to Washington by Sir Keir Starmer in December 2024 as the UK’s ambassador to the US, but was sacked the following September<\/a> after further revelations emerged about his friendship with Epstein. <\/p>\n

Emails revealed he had been in contact with Epstein after the US financier’s 2008 conviction, sending a string of supportive messages.<\/p>\n

Asked by Laura Kuenssberg if the government was aware of Mandelson’s alleged financial links to Epstein, Housing Secretary Steve Reed confirmed they were not. <\/p>\n

“You’re talking about things that happened more than 20 years ago,” he said, stressing “there was no knowledge” about what was going on at that time.<\/p>\n

Reed added that the reason Mandelson was removed as US ambassador was because “there were things he had not disclosed” to government.<\/p>\n

“I think he should answer questions about his own life, not me.”<\/p>\n

On 11 January, he told Laura Kuenssberg that his relationship with Epstein was a “terrible mistake”. <\/p>\n

During the interview, Lord Mandelson also said he believed he was “kept separate” from Epstein’s sex life because he is gay and denied seeing young girls at Epstein’s properties<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Days later, he offered a more direct apology to the victims of the disgraced financier, telling Newsnight he was “wrong” to continue associating with Epstein. <\/p>\n

Epstein’s 2008 conviction was part of a plea bargain he reached in Florida. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to two charges, including soliciting girls as young as 14 for prostitution.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Epstein died in a New York prison cell<\/a> while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lord Mandelson was later sent to Washington by Sir Keir Starmer in December 2024 as the UK’s ambassador…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-402347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402347","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=402347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}