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    Home - UK News - “I wish I’d never met him”: Peter Mandelson “regrets” association with Jeffrey Epstein

    “I wish I’d never met him”: Peter Mandelson “regrets” association with Jeffrey Epstein

    “I wish I’d never met him”: Peter Mandelson “regrets” association with Jeffrey Epstein

    “I wish I’d never met him”: Peter Mandelson “regrets” association with Jeffrey Epstein

    • WTX News Editor
    • May 27, 2025
    • 8:48 pm
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    Cliff Notes

    • Lord Mandelson expressed regret over his association with Jeffrey Epstein, asserting he wished he had never met him.
    • A 2019 JP Morgan report revealed that Mandelson stayed at Epstein’s Manhattan flat while Epstein was serving time for sex trafficking charges.
    • As the UK ambassador to the US, Mandelson aims to engage with the Trump administration respectfully, despite previously labelling Trump a "danger to the world."

    ‘I wish I’d never met him’: Peter Mandelson ‘regrets’ association with Jeffrey Epstein | US News

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    Peter Mandelson, the UK ambassador to the United States, has told Sky News he “regrets” his association with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

    Lord Mandelson‘s links to the late billionaire were exposed in a 2019 report by JP Morgan bank, filed in a New York court.

    Epstein killed himself in August of that year while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking minors.

    He had previously served an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty to procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution.

    Whilst serving that sentence, the JP Morgan report suggests that Mr Mandelson stayed at Epstein’s Manhattan flat.

    Epstein wrote to his private banker on 17 June 2009: “Peter will be staying at 71st over weekend…”

    At the time, Lord Mandelson was the Business Secretary in the UK government under then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He was appointed UK ambassador to the United States in December 2024.

    Image:
    Jeffrey Epstein. File pic: New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP

    Sky News asked him if he did, indeed, stay at Epstein’s flat while the disgraced financier was in jail.

    He replied: “I’m not answering any questions about him. My knowledge of him is something I regret, I wish I’d never met him in the first place.”

    Asked why he had an association with Epstein whilst he was in jail, Lord Mandelson replied: “Why did many people meet him? He was a prolific networker. And I wish I’d never met him in the first place.”

    As US ambassador, Lord Mandelson represents Britain’s interests in Washington and has vowed to treat Donald Trump‘s administration with “respect, seriousness and understanding of where they are coming from politically”.

    This comes after Lord Mandelson described the US president as a “danger to the world”, for which he apologised earlier this year.

    He told the Alain Elkann Interviews podcast in 2019: “What Donald Trump represents and believes is an anathema to mainstream British opinion.”

    Image:
    US President Donald Trump, vice president JD Vance, and UK ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson. Pic: AP

    Mr Mandelson added: “Even those who have a sneaking admiration for Donald Trump because of his personality, nonetheless regard him as reckless, and a danger to the world.”

    But in January this year, Lord Mandelson said he now considered his remarks “as ill-judged and wrong”.

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