An email from Epstein to Mandelson on Nov. 6, 2016 says “63 years old. You made it,” a reference to Mandelson’s birthday two weeks earlier.
Mandelson responded less than half an hour later: “Just. I have decided to extend my life by spending more of it in the U.S.” Epstein replied: “In the Donald White House.” To which Mandelson said: “What’s the Donald White House? And how are you?”
Epstein also wrote that Mandelson was “right about staying away from Andrew,” an apparent reference to the former Duke of York who has become embroiled in scandal over his own links to Epstein.
The Labour peer responded: “Yes, without Andrew it would not have gone nuclear.”
Ahead of his sacking, Mandelson said he regretted “very, very deeply indeed carrying on that association with [Epstein] for far longer than I should have done.”
