Jeffrey Epstein illegally supplied Peter Mandelson with drugs while he was a government minister, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Bombshell emails also expose how the paedophile financier arranged for the Labour peer to have cosmetic Botox injections while he visited him in New York.
The astonishing exchanges came while Epstein was under house arrest after his conviction for soliciting sex from a 14-year-old girl. And in the most shocking message, Mandelson tells the sex offender that drugs thought to be Xanax sedatives are ‘all very well but you need someone to use them on…’
Epstein is known to have got his victims – including Virginia Giuffre – hooked on Xanax to make them dependent upon him, and more pliant. It is a controlled drug in both the US and the UK, meaning it is illegal to possess it without prescription. The NHS does not prescribe it due to high risks of addiction.
Yet in one email Mandelson boldly asks Epstein where he will get more ‘triangles’.
Xanax pills come in different shapes depending on their dosage, with the most potent being green and triangular. Last night, Mandelson’s lawyers did not deny that the ‘triangles’ in the messages referred to Xanax.
The tranche of damning emails unearthed in the Epstein Files show that Mandelson was so close to the sex offender that he repeatedly asked for medical advice and medication.
They will heap further pressure on Sir Keir Starmer over his decision to appoint Mandelson as US ambassador, despite his known ties to the paedophile. Last week, it was revealed the Prime Minister was warned in writing that Mandelson continued his ‘particularly close’ friendship with Epstein for years after his sex offence convictions in 2008.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson pictured wearing bathrobes while sat with Jeffrey Epstein
A graphic showing an email exchange between Mandelson and Epstein, in which the former appears to asks for medical advice regarding Botox
ADDICTIVE PILLS KEPT EPSTEIN’S GIRLS ‘MALLEABLE’
Virginia Giuffre became hooked on Xanax supplied by Jeffrey Epstein’s network of doctors while she was being trafficked by the paedophile.
Ms Giuffre bravely wrote in her posthumously published memoir about how she became dependent on the addictive and powerful tranquilliser to cope with the ongoing abuse.
She said: ‘I was turning more and more to Xanax and other drugs, which were prescribed by doctors [Ghislaine] Maxwell sent me to. Sometimes, when I was really struggling, I took as many as eight Xanax a day.’
Other victims also reported being supplied with the drug.
A 2011 email from the Epstein Files released by the US Department of Justice shows an attorney recording how a victim had ‘reported that Epstein gave her Xanax to keep her emotionally malleable’.
Another email sent to Epstein in 2013 by an unidentified person – thought to be a victim – says: ‘The Xanax was not good. It knocked me out within 20 minutes of taking it. I could not wake up and had the craziest nightmares.’
In one email Mandelson boldly asks Epstein where he will get more ‘triangles’ – a slang term for the drug Xanax
Last night, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: ‘These revelations are jaw-dropping. If Mandelson was being provided with restricted drugs and Botox from Epstein, it shows the depths to which he had become dependent on this evil paedophile. The police should immediately investigate.’
Epstein arranged for Mandelson to get Botox while he was on a taxpayer-funded visit to New York in March 2010. Even though Epstein was under house arrest at the time, Mandelson – who was then Business Secretary and Gordon Brown’s de facto Deputy Prime Minister – saw him twice. Ahead of the trip, Epstein asked Mandelson, ‘do you need me’ on March 3, to which the politician replied: ‘Always need you… have an official dinner on 3rd then fly back. What about the injections??’
In response, Epstein asked him whether Wednesday afternoon would work. The next day, Epstein asked ‘Wed face and neck?’ with Mandelson saying, ‘do you think I should’, to which Epstein replied: ‘Botox first step.’ They went on to arrange times, but it is unclear whether the procedure went ahead. The MoS did find an invoice for ‘Lipokit’, a brand of cosmetic fat transfer injection, dated the same day Mandelson visited Epstein – but this is different from Botox.
Mandelson made an apparent reference to Xanax in an email sent on December 5, 2009, asking ‘One triangle or two??’ and Epstein replied saying ‘one’.
Later that month, Epstein asked Mandelson, ‘feeling better?’, to which the politician replied: ‘How will I get more triangles?!’ And this was not the only drug Mandelson asked Epstein for.
On the day before his New York visit in 2010, he mentioned he was down to his last Niaspan pill – a prescription-only medication that lowers cholesterol and blood fat levels – and asked for more. Epstein confirmed he could get some, replying: ‘Already done with triangles’, to which Mandelson said: ‘yippie’.
In June 2010, Mandelson appears to have asked about getting more Niaspan before adding: ‘Triangles are all very well but you need someone to use them on…’ Niaspan is not known to be a recreational or cosmetic drug, but Epstein was evangelical about its benefits. He told Mandelson to take it ‘every day’ and also to ‘have your doctor give you a prescription… it will change your life’.
In March 2010, Epstein emailed Mandelson saying: ‘After the election, we should change your meds. it causes dry nose and baggy eyes… there are much newer more effective pills with less side-effects.’
Mandelson, pictured here in a bathrobe, trusted Epstein enough to seek his medical advice
Xanax pills come in different shapes depending on their dosage, with the most potent being green and triangular
Mandelson replied: ‘Haven’t got dry nose! Rash lasted for hour, face, hands and body. So if doing morning press conference had better take after.’
Mandelson also told Epstein he was taking the antidepressant, Dosulepin, after revealing he was having ‘major face rash’.
It is not clear where Mandelson obtained Dosulepin, as NHS guidance says it should not be prescribed for depression because it can be highly toxic and comes with significant cardiac risks.
But it is evident Mandelson trusted Epstein enough to seek his medical advice. As late as February 2011, the politician asked him when to take his medication when crossing time zones.
While it is known that Epstein’s victims were given drugs, today’s revelations are thought to be the first time they have been linked to his friends. It also appears that Epstein gave Mandelson clothes during his New York visit. Days after the trip, the Labour grandee emailed: ‘Wearing new jumper with new shoes and belt. Thanks!’
Mandelson’s lawyers last night refused to comment on any point raised in the MoS’s investigation.
The peer – who remains under investigation on suspicion of misconduct in public office – has previously expressed his regret over his links with Epstein and called their friendship a ‘most terrible mistake’ and ‘misplaced loyalty’.
This photo, released by the US Department of Justice as part of the Epstein Files, shows Peter Mandelson next to a woman wearing a bathrobe while is standing in his underwear
‘I got a bonus for massaging Andrew and Mandelson…’
A former employee of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has told how she was told to massage Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson.
Christine Kenneally spoke out after an extraordinary picture emerged of Andrew and Mandelson, both wearing bathrobes, sitting with Epstein during the trip to Martha’s Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Ms Kenneally said she was flown to the island in 1999 by Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
Describing Andrew and Mandelson as ‘perfect gentlemen’, she said nothing inappropriate happened. She was paid for the trip and given a bonus for the ‘important people’ she massaged.
Meanwhile, a leaked email shows how Andrew and his business associate Jonathan Rowland joked about ‘getting a massage’ amid the furore that followed an MoS interview in February 2011 with Virginia Giuffre, the Epstein trafficking victim and masseuse pictured with the former Prince.
Two months later, Mr Rowland told Andrew he was in China with a banker, saying they were ‘considering getting a massage… What do you think?’
Andrew replied: ‘Ha ha. F*** you too!’
