'Their pal Epstein abused a nine-year-old - but Andrew and Mandelson stay silent'

Entertainment

The silence is no longer just disturbing. It is now indefensible, and it starts not only with Ghislaine Maxwell , but with the powerful men who still refuse to answer for their proximity to Jeffrey Epstein . As fresh details emerge that the late American financier abused a child as young as nine, the continued silence of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson looks more alarming by the day. Both men were close pals of Epstein. Both moved comfortably in his world. Both have chosen, as