Lord Peter Mandelson is seeking to avoid “further embarrassment” after documents suggested that the late child sex offender sent him $75,000 Former British ambassador to the US Lord Peter Mandelson has resigned from the Labour Party after newly released US documents revived scrutiny of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelson, who was dismissed from his post in Washington last year following revelations about a ten-page “love”   letter to his “best pal” Epstein,