\n The former Prince Andrew<\/a>, his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson and Peter Mandelson, the former UK ambassador to the US, are all listed multiple times in the latest trove of Epstein files, ramping up pressure on the trio to explain their ties to the late sex offender and further distance themselves from British institutions.\n <\/p>\n \n Prime Minister Keir Starmer has urged Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to testify before the US Congress, while Mandelson \u2013 who resigned from the Labour Party on Sunday \u2013 is facing calls from leading figures, including Starmer, to retire from the House of Lords.\n <\/p>\n \n Here\u2019s how the Justice Department\u2019s latest drop of files is scandalizing Britain.\n <\/p>\n Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/p>\n \n The former Prince Andrew has for years attempted to bat away<\/a> questions about his links to Epstein. In a now-infamous interview with the BBC in 2019, Andrew claimed that he had severed all ties with Epstein in 2010, following the financier\u2019s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.\n <\/p>\n \n Emails uncovered last year called Andrew\u2019s claim into question. The British media reported that Andrew appeared to contact Epstein again in 2011, telling him to \u201ckeep in close touch\u201d and that they were \u201cin this together.\u201d Soon after, King Charles III stripped Andrew, his brother, of his royal titles in October, and began the process to evict him from the royal estate at Windsor.\n <\/p>\n \n But the latest trove of Epstein files has heaped further scrutiny on the disgraced royal. Three undated photos appear to show the former prince, now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, kneeling over what appears to be a female \u2013 whose face has been redacted \u2013 who is lying fully clothed and supine on the floor. In two photos, Andrew touches her stomach and waist; in a third, he looks at the camera while on all fours, leaning over her body.\n <\/p>\n \n It is unclear when or where the images were taken; no captions or context for the photographs was provided with the document release. Neither the photographs nor the email messages suggest any wrongdoing.\n <\/p>\n \n Andrew previously faced pressure to explain a 2001 photograph which showed him standing with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein\u2019s former girlfriend and a convicted child sex trafficker, and Virginia Giuffre, a prominent accuser of Epstein who died by suicide in April.\n <\/p>\n \n In her posthumous memoir, Giuffre accused Andrew of sexually abusing her when she was 17. She wrote that Andrew \u201cbelieved that having sex with me was his birthright.\u201d Despite claiming never to have met her, Andrew reportedly paid millions of dollars to Giuffre in 2022 to settle a civil case she brought against him. He has repeatedly denied all allegations of wrongdoing and said he never witnessed or suspected any of the behavior that Epstein was accused of.\n <\/p>\n \n The latest Epstein documents also contain an email exchange<\/a> between Epstein and Andrew in August 2010, in which the financier invites the royal to meet a \u201cfriend\u201d \u2013 whose name was redacted \u2013 for dinner in London. Andrew replied that he would be \u201cdelighted to see her\u201d and told Epstein to pass on his contact details. Epstein then describes the woman as a 26-year-old Russian who is \u201cclevere (sic) beautiful, trustworthy,\u201d and confirms that she has Andrew\u2019s email.\n <\/p>\n \n In November, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee requested that Andrew come to Washington to give evidence as part of the panel\u2019s investigation into Epstein. Although Andrew did not respond to the request at the time, Starmer on Saturday urged the former prince to submit himself to questioning.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cAnybody who has got information should be prepared to share that information in whatever form they are asked to do that,\u201d Starmer said. \u201cYou can\u2019t be victim-centered if you\u2019re not prepared to do that.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Andrew\u2019s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson \u2013 known as \u201cFergie\u201d \u2013 is also mentioned several times in the latest tranche of files, although this does not indicate any wrongdoing. Ferguson was dropped last year as the patron or ambassador to several British charities after earlier documents showed she had called Epstein her \u201csupreme friend.\u201d At the time, a spokesperson for Ferguson said she regretted her association with Epstein.\n <\/p>\n \n But the latest documents are further evidence of the depth of their relationship. In March 2009, Ferguson \u2013 then the Duchess of York \u2013 sent<\/a> an email thanking Epstein, touting fashion and media outlets which she said now wanted to work with her.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIn just one week, after your lunch, it seems the energy has lifted. I have never been more touched by a friends (sic) kindness,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThank you Jeffrey for being the brother I have always wished for.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n In January 2010, she wrote<\/a>: \u201cYou are a legend. I really don\u2019t have the words to describe, my love, gratitude for your generosity and kindness. Xx I am at your service. Just marry me.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n The emails also appear to suggest that Epstein wanted to use Ferguson to help clear his name. In one undated email<\/a>, Epstein wrote to Mike Sitrick, chair of the crisis management firm Sitrick and Company, which was retained by Epstein\u2019s law firm, saying: \u201cI would like you to draft a statement that in an ideal world fergie would put out.\u201d Sitrick told CNN that he had never contacted Ferguson or her representatives directly.\n <\/p>\n \n In a March 2011 email to Sitrick and two others, Epstein wrote: \u201cI think Fergie can now say, I am not a pedo.\u201d In reply<\/a>, Sitrick said there is a \u201cstrategy\u201d to \u201cget newspapers to stop calling you a pedophile and get the truth out,\u201d and that one tactic was to \u201cget Fergie to retract.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n The next month, Ferguson wrote<\/a> in an email to Epstein and James Henderson, her spokesperson at the time, saying she \u201cdid not\u201d and \u201cwould not\u201d call him a \u201cP.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n In October 2009, she wrote<\/a> to Epstein saying that she \u201curgently\u201d needed \u00a320,000 for rent, and that her landlord had \u201cthreatened to go to the newspapers if I don\u2019t pay.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n It was not clear if Epstein sent that money. However, in 2001 \u2013 years before Ferguson\u2019s request \u2013 newly released documents appeared to show that Epstein wired<\/a> the former Duchess $150,000 after helping her to cash in the share options she earned from her work for Weight Watchers. CNN has asked a spokesperson for Ferguson for comment.\n <\/p>\n Peter Mandelson<\/p>\n \n Mandelson, widely known in political circles as the \u201cPrince of Darkness\u201d for his Machiavellian approach to power, was fired as the UK\u2019s ambassador to Washington in September over the deepening scandal surrounding his ties to Epstein. That month, US lawmakers had released a \u201cbirthday book,\u201d compiled for Epstein\u2019s 50th birthday in 2003, in which Mandelson penned a handwritten note describing the financier as \u201cmy best pal.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n The latest tranche of documents has revealed that Mandelson appeared to leak sensitive UK government tax plans to Epstein. They also show that his partner, Reinaldo Avila da Silva, regularly received undisclosed payments from him.\n <\/p>\n \n In September 2009, da Silva \u2013 who married Mandelson in 2023 after three decades together \u2013 emailed<\/a> Epstein to ask for \u00a310,000 to help fund his osteopathy course. Epstein replied<\/a>: \u201cI will wire your loan amount immediated\u2019y (sic).\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n In April 2010, da Silva emailed Epstein again, sharing his bank details. Epstein forwarded the message to his accountant, Rich Kahn, adding<\/a>: \u201csend 13k dollars.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n That same month, Epstein told Kahn to \u201csend 2k per month to reinaldo.\u201d When Kahn asked<\/a> if this was in addition to the original $13,000, Epstein replied<\/a>: \u201cno after rethinkoing (sic) send 4000 dollars only.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n In October that year, Mandelson asked<\/a> Epstein, jokingly: \u201cHave you permanently stopped the reinaldo sub?! 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