More and more celebrities are being caught lying about Epstein. watson/keystone
Last Friday, the US Department of Justice released the largest collection of Jeffrey Epstein files to date. It contains the names of people who denied contact with the sexual predator.
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The Epstein Files are currently keeping politicians and all of Hollywood in suspense. Last Friday, three million new pages of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s files were released. These revealed the names of hundreds of well-known personalities. Some of them have denied for years that they had ever been in contact with Epstein – or at least not at the time when he committed the crime. These lies are now flying around their ears.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew)
Virginia Giuffre made it public in 2009 that she was approached by Ghislaine Maxwell when she was 16 and then fell into Jeffrey Epstein’s network. Ghislaine Maxwell is considered the pimp in the Epstein case and was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022. In an interview with BBC Giuffre said she was sexually exploited and “passed on” by Epstein.
Virginia Giuffre committed suicide in April 2025. Image: imago
One of the perpetrators is said to have been Prince Andrew (now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor). He is said to have sexually abused her several times when she was 17. The now 65-year-old always denied having known Virginia Giuffre, who has since died. However, in the newly released files there is an email from Ghislaine Maxwell that shows otherwise. It proves that a photo of the former royal and the young Virginia Giuffre is real.
Prince Andrew always denied that this picture was real. Now it has been confirmed by the new files.Image: www.imago-images.de
Crown Princess Mette-Marit
Years ago it became known that the Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit had contact with Epstein. The new files now confirm this. An email exchange involving a visit to Epstein’s estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2013 caused a particular stir. The palace confirmed to broadcaster NRK that Mette-Marit had rented Epstein’s house through a mutual friend. The Crown Princess lived there with a friend for four days, said the spokeswoman for the Norwegian royal family.
Mette-Marit is mentioned several hundred times in the Epstein Files.Image: www.imago-images.de
Like the Norwegian channel VG reported, the Crown Princess then said that she had not had any contact with Epstein since 2013. In the new publications of the files there was now an email exchange between Epstein and Mette-Marit, which is dated June 2014. In it, the two discuss a meeting in New York, to which Mette-Marit replied that “Tuesday would be suitable.” It is not yet known whether the meeting took place.
Mette-Marit’s written contact with Jeffrey Epstein in June 2014.Image: DOJ
When “VG” wanted to know why the palace had spoken of a break in contact in 2013, it replied that there had been a mistake and that Mette-Marit last had contact with Epstein in January 2014. When the broadcaster asked again and wanted to know why the emails were exchanged in June 2014, the palace admitted another mistake. Mette-Marit then published the following statement:
“Jeffrey Epstein bears personal responsibility for his actions. I must take responsibility for not checking Epstein’s background more closely and recognizing what kind of person he was quickly enough. I deeply regret this and I must bear this responsibility. I demonstrated poor judgment and I deeply regret it.”
Whether Mette-Marit last had contact with Epstein in 2013 or 2014, in both years he had already been convicted and served prison time for abuse.
US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick
The US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said in a podcast about Epstein last year that he had already decided in 2005 that he never wanted to be in the same room as this “disgusting person” again. But various emails now prove the opposite.
Emails between Epstein and Howard Lutnick.Image: DOJ
For example, according to the published emails, the two businessmen had lunch on the Caribbean island of Little Saint James on December 23, 2012. There were eight children present.
Epstein and Lutnick then kept in touch again. In 2017, Epstein even donated $50,000 to an organization honoring Lutnick.
WEF CEO Børge Brende
WEF CEO Børge Brende denied this, according to the Norwegian newspaper Aftenpost last November that he had ever been in contact with Jeffrey Epstein. As the new files now show, the 60-year-old was in contact with the convicted sex offender several times in 2018 and 2019. There are also said to have been at least three dinners. In June 2019, Epstein emailed Brende a photo of a woman. Brende replied: «I was right, wasn’t I? Great fun.”
Børge Brende in exchange with Jeffrey Epstein.Image: DOJ
After the publication of the new documents, Brende admitted that his statements were “wrong”. He understood the question differently at the time and regrets not having examined Epstein’s background more closely.
Former British business minister Peter Mandelson
British police have launched an investigation into former British business minister Peter Mandelson. This comes after new email histories from the Epstein files suggested that Mandelson may have passed on sensitive information to the US entrepreneur during the financial and economic crisis. In 2010, Mandelson is said to have passed on confidential information to Epstein one day before the announcement of the 500 billion euro rescue package during the euro crisis. The news also suggests that he tried to prevent the introduction of a tax on bonus payments for bankers.
Peter Mandelson is currently under police investigation. Image: keystone
Following the publications, the 72-year-old has already lost his role as British ambassador to the USA and resigned his membership in the Labor Party and the British House of Lords. Mandelson is one of the first well-known personalities to be investigated over the Epstein Files.
Other internationally known personalities also appear in the newly published files. Bill Gates was also forced to publish a statement. US President Donald Trump also appears in many documents, as does Tesla founder Elon Musk. The last two have not yet made a public statement.
(With material from SDA)
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