Peter Mandelson secretly tried to help Epstein shut down a Mail on Sunday investigation into the paedophile's friendship with Andrew
Peter Mandelson secretly tried to help Jeffrey Epstein shut down a ground breaking Mail on Sunday investigation into the paedophile's friendship with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, it can be revealed today.
Extraordinary emails unearthed from the Epstein Files expose how days after this newspaper exclusively published the first interview with Andrew's accuser Virginia Giuffre, Mandelson began to advise the paedophile on how he should 'fight back'.
Mandelson, dubbed the Dark Lord because of his skills as a spin-doctor, urged Epstein to engage Schillings - a highly combative law firm - and potentially seek public relations advice from a former editor of the Sun newspaper.
The former
Labour cabinet minister even appears to have drafted a press statement as part of a PR strategy for the sex offender.
Mandelson's efforts were part of what now appears to be a double-pronged bid to derail this newspaper's investigation into Andrew's link with Epstein.
The MoS revealed in October how just before our bombshell interview with Ms Giuffre was published in February 2011, Andrew embroiled the Metropolitan Police and one of Queen Elizabeth's most senior aides in a campaign to smear Ms Giuffre.
A shocking message showed how Andrew asked his taxpayer-funded personal protection officer to investigate Ms Giuffre and passed him her confidential US social security number.
In an extraordinary email to Ed Perkins, Queen Elizabeth's deputy press secretary, on February 26, 2011, Andrew wrote: 'It would also seem she has a criminal record in the States. I have given her DoB [date of birth] and social security number for investigation with XXX, the on duty ppo [personal protection officer].'
The Met announced in December that it would not launch a criminal investigation into Andrew, to the dismay of Ms Giuffre's family.
Extraordinary emails unearthed from the Epstein Files expose how Mandelson began to advise the paedophile on how he should 'fight back'.
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