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Jeffrey Epstein Send £10,000 to Just two months after Lord Mandelson’s husband was released from prison, According to a batch of newly released documents.
Mandelson’s husband, Reinaldo Avila da Silva, according to an email exchange released by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) Asking Epstein for money Funding for osteopathic courses and other related costs in September 2009.
Epstein served 18 months in prison from 2008 to July 2009 after pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution charges.
The email is one of 3 million documents related to convicted sex offenders released by the Justice Department on Friday.
After requesting payment, Epstein responded: “I will wire the amount of your loan immediately.” [sic]”.
A few days later, Mr. da Silva responded “Thank you for sending the money to my account this morning,” the documents show.
Lord Mandelson married Mr da Silva in 2023, in a relationship that dates back three decades. deputy prime minister Provided to Gordon Brown at the time of the alleged payment. He was sacked as Britain’s ambassador to the US by Sir Keir Starmer in September when details of his relationship with Epstein emerged.
The emails also show that Mr da Silva messaged Epstein again in April 2010, sharing his bank details.
Emails show Epstein asked his accountants to send “$13,000” to Mr. da Silva and later asked them to “send $2,000 a month to Reynaldo.”
He later replied “After rethinking [sic] Just send $4,000.”
In September last year, a source close to Lord Mandelson said any suggestion of payment was “incredible”.
The emails raise further questions about Epstein’s friendship with Britain’s former ambassador to Washington.
In a statement on Friday night, Lord Mandelson offered an “unequivocal” apology to Epstein’s victims for remaining friends with the pedophile financier after his conviction.
He insisted he knew nothing about Epstein’s crimes and “only learned the true truth about him after his death.”
Lord Mandelson said: “I was wrong to believe Epstein after his conviction and to continue to associate with him afterwards. I unequivocally apologize for this to the women and girls who have suffered.”
“I was never responsible or complicit in his crimes. Like others, I learned the true truth about him only after his death. But his victims did know what he was doing. Their voices were not heard, and I’m sorry I was one of those who believed him instead of them.”
Earlier this month, Lord Mandelson told the BBC he was on the “edge” of Epstein’s life in his first major broadcast interview since being sacked by the government.
But emails released in a previous batch of Epstein files show that Lord Mandelson told Epstein to “fight for an early release” shortly before he was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
The day before the disgraced financier was set to go to jail, he reportedly told Epstein, “I think of the world for you.”