Email exchanges published in the US indicate the disgraced late financier was in close contact with Lord Mandelson while he was at the heart of the UK government
Jeffrey Epstein sent negotiating tips to Lord Mandelson during one of the UK’s General Elections, emails show.
The shamed sex abuser was vocal to the former minister during Gordon Brown’s unsuccessful bid to form a coalition with the Lib Dems after the 2010 General Election, it has been revealed.
In emails released by the US government, Epstein wrote: “You will gain and/or lose the most in the final hours of negotiation. Slow slow slow.. wear them out.”
He also told his then-Business Secretary pal Mandelson in a message: “I like to see my suggestions come to fruition.”
Photos of the disgraced peer are in the Epstein files and since then he has been forced to quit cabinet and been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office last month.
He denies all wrongdoing and enquiries are believed to be ongoing.
Reports this week have told how a new picture allegedly shows Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson sitting in bathrobes alongside Jeffrey Epstein in the first known image of the three men together.
The snap was reportedly found in the Epstein files released earlier this year and shows the three men all together, sitting around a wooden table on some decking outside.
It is understood to have been taken between 1999 and 2000 before Epstein was imprisoned for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
The picture was included in the dossier of thousands of files on Jeffrey Epstein released by the US Department of Justice.