"A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States. The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe's political, economic and social elites - dominating headlines, ending careers and spurring political and criminal investigations."
"'Epstein collected powerful people the way others collect frequent flyer points,' said Mark Stephens, a specialist in international and human rights law at Howard Kennedy in London. 'But the receipts are now in public, and some might wish they'd traveled less.' The documents were published after a public frenzy over Epstein became a crisis for President Donald Trump's administration and led to a rare bipartisan effort to force the government to open its investigative files."
The U.S. Department of Justice released a large trove of Jeffrey Epstein documents that has triggered shock waves across Europe's political, economic and social elites. The disclosures have dominated headlines, ended careers and prompted political and criminal investigations. Former U.K. Ambassador Peter Mandelson was fired and faces possible prison time, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the appointment. Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor lost honors, a princely title and a taxpayer-funded mansion. Most implicated figures, apart from Prince Andrew, face no sexual wrongdoing claims but were removed for maintaining friendly relationships after Epstein's conviction.
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