Epstein files latest: Clintons to testify, Fergie's 'Buckingham Palace offer' and 5,176 Trump mentions

This email exchange shows Sarah Ferguson telling Jeffrey Epstein "the British press is ready to exterminate me" during a reported cash-for-access scandal in July 2010.

She calls the disgraced financier her "pillar" and says she has to return to the UK "and be exterminated and face the thunderous music".

"I am now 1,000 percent being hung out to dry, just as I predicted you will see, the Press will have me exiled," she writes.

"I am totally on my own now. This is beyond scandalous and nobody can do anything." 

Ferguson then says "no woman has ever left the royal family with her head, and the [sic] cannot behead me, therefore they will discredit me".

The exchange came in the weeks after Ferguson was reported to have accepted $500,000 in return for securing access to her former husband, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was a UK trade envoy at the time.

In a statement in response to the Epstein files and what they reveal about her close relationship with the sex offender, Ferguson has said: "I would never have anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again. I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children. It was a gigantic error of judgement."

The release of millions of pages from the Epstein files hasn't hurt Donald Trump in a way many might have thought, US correspondent James Matthews says.

In the latest episode of Trump100, Matthews he's "struck" by how low the story is running in US media.

"I think the way these files were published probably has something to do with that," he explains.

Listen to the full episode at the top of the page.

This email exchange from May 2009 shows Lord Mandelson telling Jeffrey Epstein "don't go away".

The former cabinet minister told the disgraced financier "you are the only person who knows everything about me".

On his continued relationship with Epstein after his conviction in 2008, Mandelson has said previously: "I was wrong to believe Epstein following his conviction and to continue my association with him afterwards. 

"I apologise unequivocally for doing so to the women and girls who suffered." 

Pressure is growing on Sir Keir Starmer to strip Lord Mandelson of his peerage after revelations in the Epstein files.

Royal commentator Jennie Bond tells Mornings With Ridge and Frost the revelations about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in the Epstein files are "shocking every time".

She says there's "probably even more to come" with our team still combing through the more than three million pages.

Bond adds that Sarah Ferguson has come out "extraordinarily badly" after emails to Jeffrey Epstein were released.

"I find it impossible to defend her today, I do hesitate to criticise another woman's parenting but what mother in her right mind would take her two daughters, aged then 19 and 20, to see a convicted paedophile five days out after he came out of jail," she says.

"I think I do understand why both she and Andrew were caught up in Epstein's poisonous web, and that is because of their utter inability to think of anything other than money, their pure avarice."

This email shows Jeffrey Epstein telling Glenn and Eva Dubin about organising tea at a royal residence.

Glenn Dubin is an American hedge fund manager and is married to Eva Andersson-Dubin, a former doctor and model.

"Fergie said she could organize tea in the buckingham palace apts," Epstein wrote in the email sent on 5 July 2009.

"Or windsor castle... she said you should call her directly.

"This is separate from seeing peter at Number 10."

It's unclear whether this meeting ever happened.

Although the justice department gave no further context, Fergie likely refers to the common nickname given to Sarah Ferguson, and Peter likely refers to Lord Mandelson.

A spokesperson for the Dubins said: "Glenn and Eva Dubin are outraged by the allegations against them in the unsealed court records and categorically reject them."

On his relationship with Epstein, Mandelson has previously said: "I was wrong to believe Epstein following his conviction and to continue my association with him afterwards. I apologise unequivocally for doing so to the women and girls who suffered." 

Sarah Ferguson said: "I would never have anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again. I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children. It was a gigantic error of judgement."

Just being mentioned in these documents isn't a sign of any wrongdoing.

As pressure grows on Lord Mandelson, our team has found another email exchange between him and Jeffrey Epstein in the files.

On election day in 2010, when Mandelson was business secretary in Gordon Brown's government, he appears to have sent an email to Epstein saying "we are praying for a hung parliament. Alternatively, a well hung young man."

On his relationship with Epstein, Mandelson has previously said: "I was wrong to believe Epstein following his conviction and to continue my association with him afterwards. I apologise unequivocally for doing so to the women and girls who suffered." 

Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges in Florida in June 2008: one count of soliciting prostitution and one of soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail and under a secret arrangement, the US attorney's office agreed not to prosecute Epstein for federal crimes. Epstein served most of his sentence in a work-release programme that allowed him to leave jail during the day to go to his office, then return at night.

In an interview with The Times last week but published on Monday, Mandelson referred to a "handful of misguided historical emails, which I deeply regret sending", and described Epstein as "muck that you can't get off your shoe".

Lawyers representing survivors have hit out at the US justice department  over "carelessness" and "incompetence" in redacting sensitive information from the Epstein files.

Survivor Danielle Bensky told our US partner network NBC News that what she thought were confidential conversations with FBI investigators about Epstein were included in the latest document dump.

"It feels a bit deliberate. It feels like a bit of an attack on survivors," she said.

As we've been reporting, more than three million documents relating to the Epstein investigation were released on Friday.

Lawyers representing survivors say that before the justice department released the latest batch of investigative files, the women had been assured that there would be no repeat of the "privacy violations" that happened the first two times the Epstein-related documents were released.

"That expectation was shattered on January 30, 2026, when DOJ committed what may be the single most egregious violation of victim privacy in one day in United States history," attorneys Brittany Henderson and Brad Edwards wrote in a letter to the judges overseeing the release of the Epstein files.

Our US correspondent James Matthews has been giving an update on views of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Lord Mandelson in Washington.

There is a clamour for both men to head to the US and testify before Congress about what they know on Jeffrey Epstein, he says.

That was the impression Matthews got when he spoke to Suhas Subramanyam, a member of the US Oversight Committee, which is investigating Epstein.

On Andrew, the US politician said "the more he hides, the more files we will find".

"We will find the information regardless of whether he comes to us and testifies," he added.

Pictures of Bill Clinton in the Epstein files hit the headlines in December when tens of thousands of documents were released by the US justice department.

The former US president could be seen in a pool with Ghislaine Maxwell in one photo, and in a hot tub with an unidentifiable woman in another.

In Friday's release of more than three million documents, one photo shows Clinton cutting a slice of cake for a woman on board what appears to be a private jet.

Two other men can be seen standing up next to Clinton eating the cake.

The faces of two women in the picture have been redacted.

We do not know where or when the photo was taken, or who took it.

The latest release of documents shows communications between Maxwell and members of Clinton's staff between 2001 and 2004.

Flight logs also show Clinton flew at least 16 times on Epstein's private plane in the early 2000s to various locations including Norway, Russia, Hong Kong and China, not to Epstein's island.

Just appearing in the files isn't a sign of any wrongdoing.

In his 2024 memoir Citizen: My Life After the White House, Clinton wrote: "The bottom line is, even though it allowed me to visit the work of my foundation, travelling on Epstein's plane was not worth the years of questioning afterward. 

"I wish I had never met him."

Sir Keir Starmer is set to chair a cabinet meeting today as police assess allegations his former US ambassador Lord Mandelson leaked sensitive information from the heart of government to Jeffrey Epstein.

The Metropolitan Police is investigating allegations of misconduct in public office after emails appeared to show conversations between the ex-cabinet minister and paedophile financier about political matters, while the former was business secretary in Gordon Brown's government in 2009.

Ella Marriott, commander of the Met, said they would be reviewed to "determine if they meet the criminal threshold for investigation".

In the latest tranche of Epstein files released by the US Justice Department, emails appear to show Lord Mandelson giving Epstein advance notice of a €500bn EU bank bailout in 2010.

Mandelson was emailed by Epstein, who wrote: "Sources tell me 500 b euro bailout , almost complete (sic)."

He then appears to reply: "Sd be announced tonight".

Epstein then asks if he is home, to which Mandelson replies: "Just leaving No10... will call".

The €500bn deal was approved the next day by European governments as they tried to pull the currency through the 2010 "Eurozone" crisis - where countries such as Greece, Portugal, Ireland, and Cyprus were unable to repay or refinance their government debt.

The UK did not contribute to the bailout. However, the then chancellor Alistair Darling was present in Brussels for the negotiations.

Other emails appear to show Lord Mandelson telling Epstein he was "trying hard" to change government policy on bankers' bonuses at his request, months after the convicted sex trafficker had paid tens of thousands of pounds to the peer's husband.

Lord Mandelson has not responded to the latest allegations. However, in an interview with The Times carried out last week but published on Monday, he referred to a "handful of misguided historical emails, which I deeply regret sending", and described Epstein as "muck that you can't get off your shoe".