The now-notorious picture of Peter Mandelson in his pants was taken inside Jeffrey Epstein‘s palatial ‘House of Sin’ in Paris, it was revealed today.
The paedophile financier entertained VIPs including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in the flat on Avenue Foch, wowing them with its view of the Arc de Triomphe in the ultra-exclusive 16th arrondissement.
But Epstein is also said to have raped underage girls at the Parisienne apartment and it was searched by police after his death in 2019 as part of a child sex trafficking investigation.
Lord Mandelson’s spokesman has said that the disgraced former Labour peer ‘has absolutely no idea’ where the pants picture was taken or ‘whether it has any connection to Epstein at all’.
But today it emerged that it was taken inside Epstein’s property inside the French capital. The 8,000 sq ft flat has eight bedrooms and grand 16ft ceilings.
Data and Forensics experts have matched the metal balcony railing visible in the window next to where Lord Mandelson is stood in his briefs to those installed on Epstein’s Paris home.
The lamp, curtains and red wood panelling on the wall of the apartment also match shots taken when it was put up for sale in 2021. There is also a piece of paper on the desk with Jeffrey E. Epstein printed at the bottom in a different image of the same room.
Sky News also claims they have evidence that the picture of the former Duke of York on all fours over a woman also released in the Epstein Files was taken inside Epstein’s New York home, based on the interior.
Lord Mandelson talking to a woman in a white bath robe while in his underwear. His spokesman claimed he had ‘no idea’ where it was taken but the interior appears to match the inside of Epstein’s Paris flat, known as the House of Sin
Lord Mandelson has not explained why he posed in his briefs in images contained in the Epstein Files
Sky News says its analysis suggests that the picture was taken in Epstein’s office, due to matching lamps and red panelling
Epstein had a love of rare artworks and before his arrest it had skulls and eyeball-inspired art
The 8,000 sq ft flat enjoys eight bedrooms and 16ft-high ceilings but took years to sell and went for £2million less than expected
Jeffrey Epstein‘s ‘House of Sin’ flat in Paris – which played host to Andrew and other VIPs – sold for just over £8million after the price had to be heavily slashed.
The disgraced financier and paedophile was accused of having committed some of his worst sex offences there.
Epstein decorated it with unique skull and eyeball artworks – but after his arrest and death it was shuttered and empty.
‘This rare apartment impresses not only by its size but also by the quality of its renovation, completely redone by a famous world-renowned decorator,’ Sotheby’s said when it was put on the market.
But it took around four years to sell at a reduced price.
Sources have demanded that some of the proceeds from the sale should be given to Epstein’s victims in the future.
Sky claims they have identified the interior of this picture of Andrew on all fours over a woman as being inside Epstein’s New York home
The luxurious French flat, near the Arc de Triomphe, was sold to a Bulgarian investor for £8.2million in 2024 – £2million less than the asking price.
Andrew was said to have been told by Epstein to treat the second-floor apartment ‘as his own’ – and most of his trips came after the sex offender was convicted of abusing young women in 2008.
Epstein had bought the property on 22 Avenue Foch, where the photograph was taken, in 2001 before buying up other flats within the building.
Over the years, Epstein would sporadically arrive at his home in the French capital hosting parties at his second floor apartment.
Those who had spent time in the home, including a butler and a decorator, previously spoke about the number of photographs of young women decorated on the walls of the home ‘like family photos’.
One workman previously said he had been ‘struck by the numerous photos of young girls in the apartment’.
He added in an interview with Radio France: ‘They were arranged in frames, a bit like family photos.
‘The girls seemed very young. Minors? Hard to say. Not much older than 18 in any case… Seeing the photos, we didn’t think of paedophilia, but it was borderline, close to it.’
In 2022 a picture emerged of Lord Mandelson, who appears to be singing as Jeffrey Epstein blows out the candles on a birthday cake in Epstein’s Paris lair
Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘House of Sin’ flat in Paris – which played host to Andrew – was sold for just over £8million in 2024 after the price had to be heavily slashed
The stunning French flat has the same railings as in the Mandelson picture, Sky has said
Disturbingly, as with Epstein’s other homes, his Parisian pied-a-terre contained a massage parlour where he would, according to his butler, visit ‘three or four times a day’.
‘You could call these paid relationships,’ he said adding ‘not all the massages involved sexual relations.’
The butler’s wife, who insisted the photos were simply ‘artistic shots’ added that in the apartment’s ‘massage room’ there was a ‘magnificent naked woman arched in the massage room’.
Following Epstein’s death in 2019, French Police opened an investigation into alleged crimes of sexual abuse and trafficking that were said to have taken place in the Parisian home, where Andrew is said to have stayed at regularly.
Mr Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied any wrongdoing.
It was previously claimed by Epstein’s victim Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide last year, that during one stay at the Parisian property when she was a teenager, twin 12-year-old girls were recruited to have sex with the paedophile.
Mandelson is yet to make any further comments today on the latest revelations found in the Epstein files.
Last night, however, in his letter to Labour’s general secretary, he once again apologised to Epstein’s victims.
He wrote: ‘I have been further linked this weekend to the understandable furore surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and I feel regretful and sorry about this.
‘Allegations which I believe to be false that he made financial payments to me 20 years ago, and of which I have no record or recollection, need investigating by me.
‘While doing this I do not wish to cause further embarrassment to the Labour Party and I am therefore stepping down from membership of the party.
‘I want to take this opportunity to repeat my apology to the women and girls whose voices should have been heard long before now.
‘I have dedicated my life to the values and success of the Labour Party and in taking my decision, I believe I am acting in its best interests.’
