{"id":143843,"date":"2025-09-09T10:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/143843\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:27:06","slug":"britains-us-ambassador-mandelson-appeared-to-call-epstein-best-pal-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/143843\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s US ambassador Mandelson appeared to call Epstein \u2018best pal\u2019 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It continues: \u201cYou would spend many hours just waiting for him to turn up. And often, no sooner were you getting used to having him around, you would suddenly be alone\u2026. again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeaving you with some \u2018interesting\u2019 friends to entertain instead\u2026. Or just some dogs to keep you company (he wasn\u2019t always so keen on them).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then he would parachute back in\u2026 Very occasionally, taking you by surprise in some far off places.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr in one of his glorious homes he likes to share with his friends (yum yum).<\/p>\n<p>It concludes: \u201cBut, wherever he is in the world, he remains my best pal! Happy birthday, Jeffrey we love you!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The existence of Mandelson\u2019s contribution to the book was first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein-birthday-album-included-letters-from-bill-clinton-leon-black-a7cd8cb1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported by the Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0in July. The British ambassador has previously distanced himself from Epstein, and a spokesperson told the BBC Monday: \u201cLord Mandelson has long been clear that he very much regrets ever having been introduced to Epstein.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It continues: \u201cYou would spend many hours just waiting for him to turn up. And often, no sooner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,223,9576,3,8454,10497,1049,21,19,22,20,25,24,918,89403,9583],"class_list":["post-143843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-books","tag-british-politics","tag-news","tag-peter-mandelson","tag-platforms","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wall-street","tag-wes-streeting","tag-westminster-bubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}