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Newly-released emails related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have laid bare the extent of his relationships with several high-profile figures.
More than 3 million pages, 180,000 images and 2,000 videos were made public by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday, coming six weeks after a deadline signed into law by US president Donald Trump to mandate all Epstein-related files be released.
But the revelations around his apparent communication with Lord Peter Mandelson are among the most explosive, with potentially major implications for both the former cabinet minister and wider political sphere.
The extraordinary exchanges appear to show a lengthy, wide-ranging and intimate relationship between the disgraced financier and Lord Mandelson, including, most notably, when he served as business secretary in Gordon Brown’s Labour government.
open image in gallery Many exchanges published between Lord Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein have been made public ( The Independent/U.S. Department of Justice )
Emails suggest the former minister shared internal cabinet business with Epstein, giving him key updates before they were announced and, on at least one occasion, seemingly helping him to lobby the government.
But the emails also suggest the pair were friends as well as strategic business partners, wit
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