Peter Mandelson had 4 dates scheduled inside the diary to see Jeffrey Epstein…
Peter Mandelson was scheduled to have 4 conferences with Jeffrey Epstein after the tycoon served time in jail for having intercourse with underage ladies.
The paedophile’s personal calendars reveal that the ex-Labour Cabinet Minister was attributable to fulfill the financier between 2010 and 2013, though he was a registered intercourse offender.
The diaries even advocate Lord Mandelson stayed at his £63 million New York mansion in 2012.
The Mail on Sunday can also reveal that Prince Andrew was so comfortable in Epstein’s residence he invited an in depth good buddy over for tea.
The calendars have been revealed as part of plenty of of paperwork handed over by Epstein’s property all through an investigation by the federal authorities of the US Virgin Islands, the place he had a personal island.
Peter Mandelson (pictured) was scheduled to have 4 conferences with Jeffrey Epstein after the tycoon served time in jail for having intercourse with underage ladies
They clarify the group of associates cultivated by Epstein, who hanged himself in 2019 whereas awaiting trial for intercourse trafficking.
The disgraced billionaire was jailed for 13 months in June 2008 for soliciting a minor for prostitution as part of a sweetheart plea deal.
After leaving jail, Epstein wanted to register as a intercourse offender and was subject to a 12-month residence arrest, which expired in July 2010.
No matter this Lord Mandelson, a former EU commissioner for commerce, appears to have met Epstein quite a lot of events.
Lord Mandelson declined to confirm if the conferences had taken place – nevertheless completely different figures who appear on the paperwork have said their get-togethers did go ahead.
On the time, the peer was out of public office nevertheless being tipped to steer the IMF or the World Commerce Group.
They clarify the group of associates cultivated by Epstein (pictured in 2017), who hanged himself in 2019 whereas awaiting trial for intercourse trafficking
The first two conferences have been listed for Epstein’s New York townhouse on March 1 and March 3, 2010, when he was nonetheless beneath residence arrest.
The March 1 entry says Lord Mandelson was due at 7.30pm whereas Benjamin Wegg-Prosser, referred to as ‘Peter’s good buddy’, was attributable to reach at 1pm.
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Mr Wegg-Prosser was Lord Mandelson’s assistant and was beforehand Tony Blair’s director of strategic communications.
He now works at World Counsel, Lord Mandelson’s consulting agency, as a managing director.
An entry for Would possibly 28 2012 said: ‘** Peter Mandelson to achieve inside the evening from Shelter Island WILL HE STAY AT HOUSE?**’
Shelter Island is an island in The Hamptons, the millionaires’ playground east of New York.
The entry for Wednesday, Would possibly 30 reads: ‘** Peter Mandelson presumably leaves as we communicate if conferences organised for Boston, in every other case depart Thurs for DC **’
The last word entry is for April 4, 2014 and is a dinner with Mandelson, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, investor Mort Zuckerman and Jes Staley, the earlier head of JP Morgan, who has been accused of abusing Epstein’s victims.
Earlier critiques have confirmed footage of Lord Mandelson on Epstein’s island in 2005 and at his birthday in 2006, nevertheless the diaries are the first methods of conferences after his jail sentence.
Mr Wegg-Prosser confirmed his meeting with Epstein did occur. He said: ‘I had the misfortune to fulfill Epstein on one occasion.
‘It was a quick meeting of no consequence and fortuitously was in no way to be repeated.’
Within the meantime, The Mail on Sunday has found that Prince Andrew invited family good buddy Katherine Keating, 41, daughter of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, to Epstein’s mansion.
He was photographed peering throughout the door of the disgraced billionaire’s residence on December 6, 2010 as he waved goodbye to her.
One provide said: ‘Andrew instructed Emily Maitlis in his Newsnight interview he went to New York to sever ties with Epstein so it seems counterintuitive he would actually really feel comfortable ample to ask an outdated family good buddy over for tea. You could marvel what was he contemplating?’
