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.

Former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson was fired and could go to prison. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the Mandelson appointment. Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. And, even before the latest batch of files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, lost his honors, princely title and taxpayer-funded mansion.

  • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I wonder why they redacted the word “don’t” 🤔. Almost like someone called don with a last name beginning with t appeared so many times they needed to automate the redaction of his name.

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      2 hours ago

      Oh surely not. It would literally be illegal to teach a name like that. I’m sure they wouldn’t…