The newly found {photograph} seems to have been taken in a really comparable location to a different, which featured subsequent to Lord Mandelson’s message in a “birthday book”, put together to rejoice Epstein’s fiftieth birthday in 2003.
Emails seen by the BBC seem to indicate Lord Mandelson and Epstein’s private assistant Lesley Groff discussing the place a photograph was taken.
After Groff advised it “might be on Jeffrey’s island”, Lord Mandelson replied in an e mail dated 19 July 2013: “I think it was Martha’s, the first time I met Jeffrey.”
The Daily Telegraph stories the trade pertains to these photos.
Lord Mandelson was sacked as ambassador after supportive emails he despatched to Epstein in 2008, when he was going through costs for intercourse offences, emerged within the recordsdata.
Images of him standing in his underwear have additionally been launched by the DOJ.
The Metropolitan Police launched an investigation final month over allegations that, whereas he was serving as a authorities minister, Lord Mandelson handed on market-sensitive authorities info to Epstein.
Lord Mandelson has not publicly commented in current weeks on the Epstein recordsdata, however the BBC understands his place is he has not acted in any method criminally and that he was not motivated by monetary achieve.
Epstein died in a Manhattan jail whereas awaiting his trial on intercourse trafficking costs in 2019. Ghislaine Maxwell is at present serving a 20-year jail sentence for recruiting and trafficking teenage ladies for sexual abuse by the financier.
