Peter Mandelson, left, pictured with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in 2007
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Among those to have been engulfed by the scandal are Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, and Lord Peter Mandelson, a former government minister and ambassador to the US. Lord Mandelson has faced calls to be stripped of his peerage and on Tuesday, it was confirmed he will formally retire from the House of Lords on February 4.
He also faces a police probe into allegations he passed sensitive information about UK Government business to Epstein while serving in Gordon Brown’s government. Lord Mandelson also has a link to Andrew.
According to the Daily Mail’s Ephraim Hardcastle column, the Labour Peer “pushed through the appointment” of the then-Prince Andrew as a trade envoy for the UK Government. Andrew was handed the post in 2001 by the government of Tony Blair.
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The PM had threatened legislation within weeks to strip Lord Mandelson of his title while police are assessing information relating to alleged misconduct in public office.
The Cabinet Office has passed material to the police after an initial review of documents released as part of the Epstein files found they contained “likely market-sensitive information” and official handling safeguards had been “compromised”.
The Lord Speaker announced that Lord Mandelson is to step down in the upper chamber. It came after the Prime Minister told his Cabinet that the alleged transmission of highly-sensitive government business to Epstein was “disgraceful” and Lord Mandelson had “let his country down”.
The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage
Peter Jukes
The timeline reveals a concerning convergence.
Peter Mandelson leaked the UK’s secrets to Epstein between 2009 and 2010.
Four years later, Thiel urged Epstein to meet the principals of his firm, Valar Ventures, with a view to confirming Epstein’s multi-million investment.
The following year, Epstein invested $15 million in Valar Ventures and became a limited partner in a Valar Ventures-managed fund.
In 2018, Thiel’s firm Palantir hired Mandelson’s lobbying company, Global Counsel, to facilitate its penetration of UK Government contracts. At the same time, Epstein remained an active Valar partner receiving confidential investment opportunities from Thiel’s fund and responding to opportunities suggested by the Valar principals.
If Peter Mandelson’s links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein’s business partner retain access to the UK’s most sensitive national security infrastructure?
One email sent to Epstein in September 2017 shows a contact named ‘Peter Fenwick’ inviting him to stay in the Highlands. In the exchange, Fenwick assures Epstein there are “NO Hurricanes NO tornadoes NO boiling sun and Very Few people”.
He also described the region as “very beautiful”. The message includes a picture, seemingly from Fenwick’s Highland home, along with a request to meet in New York on Tuesday, October 17, 2017.
Peter Fenwick, British academic, mentioned in new tranche of emails, plus Cyprus mentioned:
The recent release of Jeffrey Epstein documents by the US Department of Justice — totaling over 3 million pages, along with thousands of videos and photos — has brought Cyprus into focus. Cyprus does not appear as a location for Epstein’s criminal activities but rather as a recurring reference in his international business and financial correspondence.
The Cypriot connections primarily fall into three categories: potential corporate tax domiciles, banking ties involving Russian elements, and mentions linked to the management of the Limassol port.
Key Emails Mentioning Cyprus
– **July 2017 correspondence** involving Nicole Junkermann, Epstein, and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak: The discussion centered on establishing a European subsidiary for the Israeli tech company Carbyne (then known as Reporty Homeland Security). Cyprus was proposed as a tax-efficient base but ultimately rejected. Epstein described the “Israeli trick of using Cyprus to avoid taxes” as “silly, antiquated, and dangerous.” Barak agreed, instructing associates to abandon the Cyprus option in favor of a more conventional European jurisdiction. Luxembourg was ultimately selected instead, partly because Cyprus was seen as risky due to heightened scrutiny over Russian money flows.
– **February 1, 2019 email** from Epstein to author Michael Wolff: Epstein referenced the Bank of Cyprus, former Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann (who later chaired Bank of Cyprus), and Donald Trump. He alluded to patterns of Russian money laundering and financial ties, stating that Ackermann, as Bank of Cyprus chairman, had links to Deutsche Bank — where Trump reportedly owed significant debts before receiving a large cash infusion from a Russian source.
– **May 2018 correspondence**: Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem (chairman of DP World, which manages the Limassol port concession) informed Steve Bannon that he was in Cyprus at the time. Epstein was copied on the message, which also touched on arranging meetings in the United Arab Emirates.
– **January 2017 email**: British academic Peter Fenwick suggested to Epstein that “we could move to Cyprus, which would be good.” No further evidence indicates actual relocation or business establishment there.
The files also mention entities like Liquid Funding Ltd, previously scrutinized for Cyprus-related connections. Authorities may examine whether Cypriot lawyers, accountants, or service providers facilitated any arrangements or if proper due diligence was conducted.
Despite the international significance of the Epstein revelations, there has been no official response from the Cypriot government, political parties, or calls for investigation by bodies such as MOKAS (Cyprus’s anti-money laundering unit) or the police. The matter is largely treated as a foreign issue that only incidentally touches Cyprus due to its economic and financial services model.
Publication of the Epstein documents continues, and future releases could reveal additional details — potentially including Epstein’s activities in the wider region, such as Greater Athens.
It is possible that, as Jeffrey Epstein was interested in near death experiences, the Peter Fenwick mentioned above, may be the academic as shown below, and he may have discussed such matters but is now deceased, so we may never know:
Peter Fenwick became the world expert on near-death experiences
The neuropsychiatrist and promoter of “the art of dying” died on November 22nd, aged 89
Attia, a recent addition to CBS News‘ contributors, first appeared in the interview segment with correspondent Norah O’Donnell in October. The interview will no longer be aired in a rerun as counterprogramming on Super Bowl Sunday, according to The Guardian’s Jeremy Barr, Variety and The Independent.
Attia reportedly came up over 1,700 times in the latest batch of Epstein files released Friday, Jan. 30, according to Variety, The New York Times and other news outlets. The Epstein file mentions include crude exchanges between Attia and the convicted sex offender about female genitalia and emails that suggest the self-proclaimed longevity expert may have been with Epstein while his wife was alone with their son in the hospital after a near-fatal incident. Other emails suggest the doctor discussed longevity with the financier.
USA TODAY has reached out to CBS and Attia’s rep for comment.
In a lengthy apology on X, addressing his communications with Epstein, Attia said he was not “involved in any criminal activity” and had nothing to do with” the convicted predator’s “sexual abuse or exploitation of anyone.” He said he met Epstein, who at the time was “widely known in academic and philanthropic circles as a funder of science” in 2014 through “a prominent female healthcare leader while I was raising funds for scientific research.”
Attia added that the pair met up seven to eight times at Epstein’s New York City home to discuss research studies and network. Still, he said, “I apologize and regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of them embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, are now public, and that is on me.”
Peter Attia’s emails with Epstein
In one particularly crass email to the convicted sexual predator from 2016, Attia joked that female genitalia is “indeed, low carb. Still awaiting results on gluten content, though.”
Other emails note an appointment between Attia and an unknown associate on July 13, 2017, while emails between Epstein and his longtime assistant and planner Leslie Groff confirm a meeting with Attia for the same afternoon.
The dates would have been around the time of an incident the wellness coach wrote about in his 2022 book “Outlive,” in which he admonishes himself for not being by his wife and son’s side after the month-old baby suddenly stopped breathing.
“In reality, I was out of control. I wasn’t just some garden variety road raging maniac either. A few months earlier, on Tuesday, July 11, 2017, at 5:45 to be exact, I had received a call from Jill, my wife. She was in an ambulance with our infant son … on the way to the hospital,” Attia wrote. “For some reason, he had suddenly stopped breathing and fallen unconscious. His eyes were completely rolled back in their sockets, and he was lifeless and blue, with no heartbeat.”
His son had begun breathing a short time later, but was still being held in the hospital for four days, all the while his wife “pleaded with me to come home. I called in daily to talk to the doctors and discuss each day’s test results, but I stayed in New York, busy with my, quote, important work.”
He added: “I feel nauseous about my behavior. I can’t believe I did that to my family. I can’t believe what a blind, selfish, checked out husband and father I was.”
WARSAW, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Poland will launch an investigation into possible links between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Russian intelligence, as well as any impact on Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday.
Psst, Putin: In a June 2018 email — nearly a month before the Trump-Putin Helsinki summit — Epstein urged a top European diplomat, Thorbjorn Jagland (former Norwegian prime minister and head of the Council of Europe), to advise Putin that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov could “get insight on talking to me.” Epstein claimed he had previously advised Russia’s U.N. Ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, who “understood Trump after our conversations.”
Trump’s worldview: After the controversial Helsinki summit, Epstein discussed the event with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, writing that Trump seemed to think he’d “charmed” Putin and had “no idea of the symbolism” of the summit. “He has no idea of most things,” Epstein wrote about Trump. | Politico
Jack Lang, the former French Culture Minister, is currently under investigation for his connections to Jeffrey Epstein, particularly regarding suspected money laundering related to tax fraud. Lang has denied any wrongdoing and has offered to resign from his position at the Arab World Institute amid the scrutiny. Deadline ARTnews
Norwegian Princess and Epstein:
Norway’s crown princess had years of contact with Epstein, files suggest
Mette-Marit apologises for ‘poor judgment’ as documents reportedly include scores of email exchanges with child sex offender
Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondentSun 1 Feb 2026 18.26 GMTShare
Norway’s crown princess has become embroiled in another scandal after newly unsealed files appeared to show her years of extensive contact with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The latest tranche of Epstein files, released on Friday by the US justice department, appear to include nearly 1,000 mentions of the crown princess, Mette-Marit.
George Mitchell quits US education body as further Epstein files are released
Mitchell Institute says it is considering a ‘potential name change’
Former US senator and chairman of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement negotiations, George Mitchell. No correspondence from Mitchell to Jeffrey Epstein has emerged in the files. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA
George Mitchell has resigned from a US scholarship organisation he cofounded more than 30 years ago and which bears his name.
The Mitchell Institute confirmed it has accepted the former senator’s resignation from his honorary chair role. It also said it was considering a “potential name change”.
The move follows the release of further documents linking him to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Among a large tranche released by the US department of justice is a document, written by Epstein, setting out arrangements he was putting in place to collect Mitchell and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak on his jet and fly them to an airport in New York. The email was written in 2013, five years after Epstein was convicted, and jailed, for the solicitation of a minor in Florida.
He was not fooled by Epstein. He was seduced. His association with Epstein is a terrible and, to many, unforgivable stain. It irreparably tarnishes his legacy. If there is a lesson here, it is this. The ruling class offers nothing without expecting something in return. The closer you get to these vampires the more you become enslaved. Our role is not to socialize with them. It is to destroy them.
Chris Hedges, Feb 9, 2026, Substack
A Norwegian ambassador has resigned following reports that Jeffrey Epstein left her children $10 million in his will.
The country’s Foreign Ministry announced Mona Juul’s resignation on Sunday evening, just days after she was suspended as Norway’s ambassador to Jordan.
Foreign Minister Espen Barthe Eide said that Ms Juul’s decision was “correct and necessary”.
Her contact with the sex offender showed a “serious lapse in judgement” and the case “makes it difficult to restore the trust that the role requires”, he said.
A ministry investigation into Ms Juul’s knowledge of and contact with Epstein will continue, Mr Eide said, and Ms Juul will continue discussions with the ministry “so that the matter can be clarified”.
The ministry said it had also launched a review of its funding of and contact with the International Peace Institute, a New York-based think tank, during the period when it was headed by Ms Juul’s husband Terje Rød-Larsen.
Slovak adviser who resigned over Epstein texts says he feels like a ‘fool’
Miroslav Lajčák communicated with Jeffrey Epstein when he served as a foreign minister in Slovakia.
In the newly released files, Epstein bantered with Lajčák about women while discussing Lajčák’s meetings with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. | Armend Nimani/AFP via Getty Images
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s national security adviser, who resigned on Saturday over his messages to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, said he feels like a “fool” after reading them again.
Retired, living in the Scottish Borders after living most of my life in cities in England. I can now indulge my interest in all aspects of living close to nature in a wild landscape. I live on what was once the Iapetus Ocean which took millions of years to travel from the Southern Hemisphere to here in the Northern Hemisphere. That set me thinking and questioning and seeking answers.
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