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Former UK Ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson has been pictured wearing just his underwear and a shirt next to a woman in a bathrobe in the latest tranche of files tied to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
It has also emerged that Epstein sent $75,000 directly to Mandelson, according to the files – three million of which were released by the Department of Justice on Friday.
Mandelson, a longtime Labour Party figure who was fired from the role over his ties to Epstein in Sept. 2025, was seen wearing a dark t-shirt and briefs while talking to a woman wearing a robe. The woman’s face has been redacted.
Mandelson is holding a computer tablet and the woman is looking at the screen. In another photo, he is seen walking into a room, clutching a tablet.
“No one can say who or where the photo was taken,” Mandelson’s team told Sky News.
“Lord Mandelson has absolutely no idea or indeed whether it has any connection to Epstein at all.”
Epstein also sent money from his JPMorgan banking accounts to accounts linked to Mandelson between May 2003 and June 2004, as reported by the Financial Times.
One $25,000 payment was sent to an account belonging to Mandelson’s husband, Reinaldo da Silva. Mandelson was named as a beneficiary on the transaction document.
Then, two $25,000 payments were sent to Mandelson’s HSBC accounts.
Mandelson, who hasn’t been accused of any wrongdoing, had “no record or re-collection” of receiving the payments, his spokesperson told the Financial Times.
The ex-diplomat enjoyed a close relationship with the disgraced financier.
Mandelson previously told Epstein “thought the world of him” and described the convicted sex offender as his “best pal.”
“I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened,” Mandelson wrote in a 2008 email.
“I can still barely understand it. It just could not happen in Britain.”
“You have to be incredibly resilient, fight for early release and be philosophical about it as much as you can,” the email said.
“The whole thing has been years of torture and now you have to show the world how big a person you are, and how strong.”
The gushing message was sent just one day after Epstein reported to a Palm Beach, Fla, prison to serve an 18-month sentence for procuring a minor for prostitution.
Epstein was charged with federal sex crimes in 2019 but was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell before his trial.
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