{"id":412639,"date":"2026-02-07T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412639\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T08:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T08:52:07","slug":"mandelson-suggested-holiday-home-for-privacy-of-epstein-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412639\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandelson suggested holiday home for ‘privacy’ of Epstein ‘guests’"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the sender of the email is redacted in the published file, the black redaction box does not completely cover his email address in one reference on the chain.<\/p>\n

Other emails from the same period suggest Lord Mandelson travelled to Mykonos, which he also referred to as “Myk” in a separate email, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The correspondence is just one exchange between Lord Mandelson and Epstein revealed in the US Department of Justice releases that sheds new light on the friendship between the men.<\/p>\n

In other published emails from 2009<\/a>, Lord Mandelson asks how they should celebrate Epstein’s release from prison, to which the disgraced financier responds: “With grace and modesty (those are the names of two strippers)”.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the peer said: “Lord Mandelson regrets, and will regret until to his dying day, that he believed Epstein’s lies about his criminality.<\/p>\n

“Lord Mandelson did not discover the truth about Epstein until after his death in 2019.<\/p>\n

“He is profoundly sorry that powerless and vulnerable women and girls were not given the protection they deserved.”<\/p>\n

Epstein died in a New York prison cell in August 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the sender of the email is redacted in the published file, the black redaction box does not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-412639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412639","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=412639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}