From billionaire brothers to a paedophile financier: How Peter Mandelson’s relationships with the wealthy have landed him in trouble time and again

Lord Mandelson declared that he was once ‘intensely relieved about people who were rich in dirty – but his passion for super -rich has been putting him into trouble for about thirty years.

Labour’s prince has always enjoyed the thinner things in life, and has never moved away from developing risky relationships to spoil them.

As the pedophilic financier Jeffrey Epstein appeared, the more details of his friendship emerged, the 71-year-old Mandelson finishes his political career-Sleaze.

Late Workers’ newspaper Alistair Darling’s former special adviser Catherine Macleod said Mandelson was a sacrifice to the ‘deadly charm’.

Times Radio told us, “ `influence and contacts manages to work around, ” he said.

“ Always withdrawn to ruling people and talked to a friend of the last night and said it was what would take Peter again.

‘Deadly attraction towards rich people who disturbed him throughout his political life.’

Geoffrey Robinson

Mandelson’s first scandal arrived in 1998, and when it appeared, £ 373,000 accepted interest -free loans Labour’s millionaire Paymaster General Geoffrey Robinson, to buy a home in Western London, notting Hill.

At that time, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Mandelson’s minister, was investigating Robinson’s allegations of irregularity in business relations. It was then cleared of any injustice.

At that time, he had to resign as a trade secretary: ‘I allowed the impression to be created from the wrong production through my own wrong trial.

“ I should have been open to this issue – and in doing so, I would protect myself from the emergence of a conflict of interest. I didn’t do it and I paid a huge price for it. ‘

Hinduja brothers

In 2001, Mandelson had to fall into his sword for the second time in 2001 regarding a passport application from an Indian billionaire.

At that time, Northern Ireland Secretary Mandelson allegedly contacted the Ministry of Interior on behalf of the businessman Srichand Hinduja, whose first application for British citizenship was rejected in 1990.

Mr. Hinduja donated £ 1 million to the Millennium Dome project, which Mandelson was responsible for, and was soon given to his passport.

Hinduja and his brothers Gopichand and Prakash, one of the richest families in the world, defended themselves against the allegations of criminal corruption, including the arms agreement.

Mandelson rejected any injustice, insisting that Mr. Hinduja was doing a ‘innocent investigation’.

Paul Allen and Peter Brown

Mandelson spent 2005 at the Caribbean Island Stars and Barthélemy, where he was a commercial commissioner at the European Union, where he was a commercial commissioner at the European Union – with his film stars and business leaders.

During his trip, Microsoft’s founding partner Paul Allen and a party thrown by the seventh richest man in the world on the deck of 414FT yacht octopus.

At that time, Mr. Allen was at the center of a major EU investigation, as Microsoft was accused of abuse almost monopol in the software market.

The EU threatened the firm with great fines, and as a commission member, Mandelson would have a potentially affecting Mr. Allen’s personal authority.

It turned out that Mandelson celebrated the New Year with Peter Brown, who ruled Beatles after Brian Epstein’s death.

At that time, Mr. Brown’s public relations firm Brown Lloyd James lobbyed on a delay in the complaint of one of his customers to the EU.

Mandelson rejected any injustice by saying that he talked with Mr. Allen for a short time and that he stayed with Mr. Brown.

Peter Mandelson joined a New Year Party organized by Microsoft’s founding partner Paul Allen (left), while Public Relations Manager Peter Brown (right) joined with him

Mr. Allen has a luxury Megayacht Ahtopus, eight decks, basketball courts, spa, gym, cinema and glass -based swimming pool that can be transformed into a dance floor.

Diego della valle

In 2006, shortly after applying big tariffs to Mandelson cheap Chinese shoes, a luxury yacht of Diego Della Valle, an Italian shoe king, was relieved.

Mr Della Valle, who runs the private shoe and bag company Tod’s, hosted the trade commissioner several times on the Italian Capri Island.

Mandelson, such as TODs to protect European shoe companies to protect the price of price imports from Asia had brought 20 percent tax. He rejected any injustice or conflict of interest.

Then, Mr. Della Valle spokesman: ‘If you want to entertain your friend and your friend with a bowl of pasta and sunlight, what is the problem?’

Tycoon Diego Della Valle (left) and Peter Mandelson at Capri in August 2006

Oleg Deripaska

In 2005, billionaire banker Nathaniel Rothschild received Mandelson at his special jet to visit Russian Aluminum King Oleg Deripaska.

The triple watched an ice hockey match in Siberia and watched a traditional ‘Banya’ sauna session in which the participants were hit with birch leaves.

Rothschild insisted that the journey was ‘completely entertainment’ and that Deripaska wanted to meet the man responsible for the EU trade policy ‘because Mandelson was an interesting and extremely clever and very smart man, he was a fantastic man’.

However, the Supreme Judge Justice Tugendhat later decided that the proposal was not quite realistic.

In 2008, Mandelson was seen in Corfu with Deripaska’s luxury yacht, Queen K, then with Shadow Chancelor George Osborne.

He refused to treat Russian positively in the aluminum tariffs in the EU: ‘He did not ask for good, I did not give him goodness, and the European Commission registered very strictly in his investigations.’

Russian aluminum billionaire Oleg Deripaska is known to spend time with Mandelson for years

Jeffrey Epstein

Mandelson has repeatedly regretted meeting with Jeffrey Epstein, but the scope of his friendship is still revealed.

Epstein, which was first released for the first time this week, contains a ‘birthday book’ compiled for the 50th in 2003 and a ten -page salute from Mandelson, describing him as ‘my best friend’.

In an e-mail, Mandelson wrote the day before Epstein was sentenced to imprisonment to demand sex from a 14-year-old girl: ‘I think your world and I feel desperate and angry about what is.’

Perhaps the last time, Mandelson’s ‘dirty rich’ obsession cost him.

Mandelson explained that Jeffrey Epstein was in a gushing birthday message ‘best friend’