{"id":15021,"date":"2026-02-03T17:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/prince-edward-responds-as-andrew-pet-email-revealed-latest-from-epstein-files\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:48:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:48:41","slug":"prince-edward-responds-as-andrew-pet-email-revealed-latest-from-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/prince-edward-responds-as-andrew-pet-email-revealed-latest-from-epstein-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Edward responds &#8211; as Andrew &#8216;pet&#8217; email revealed | Latest from Epstein files"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><b>By Ivor Bennett, Moscow correspondent<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">What has Vladimir Putin got to do with Jeffrey Epstein?<\/p>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The Russian president&rsquo;s name appears more than 1,000 times in the latest files.<\/p>\n<p>His inclusion doesn&rsquo;t imply any wrongdoing, and there&rsquo;s no evidence the two ever met, but boy, it sounds like Epstein wanted to.<\/p>\n<p>The emails appear to reveal repeated attempts by the convicted sex offender to court the Kremlin leader.<\/p>\n<p>And there&rsquo;s even an audio file, in which Epstein can be heard coaching someone on how to approach Putin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><b>Listen here&hellip;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><ncpost-content data-type=\"SKY-BRIGHTCOVE\" data-video-id=\"7154309\" data-title=\"Hear Epstein's tips for dealing with Putin\" data-iframe=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/iframe\/widget\/video\/\"><\/ncpost-content><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I would send a note to Putin, saying &lsquo;I&rsquo;m going to leave government on March 14th. I&rsquo;m going to be in Scandinavia, or I plan to be in western, northern Europe. We should have dinner&rsquo;. That&rsquo;s it, no more. It has to be very short,&rdquo; he says in the recording.<\/p>\n<p>The first substantive mention of Vladimir Putin in the latest files, unearthed by Sky&rsquo;s Data and Forensics team, is from September 2011.<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed contact refers to a meeting Epstein said he&rsquo;d arranged with Putin later that month, while Putin was Russia&rsquo;s prime minister. There&rsquo;s no evidence it took place and there are no other details.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From 2013 onwards, by which time Putin had returned to the presidency, the emails show Epstein made several bids to meet him through the former Norwegian PM Thorbjorn Jagland.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><ncpost-content data-type=\"BILDE\" data-src=\"https:\/\/liveblog.digitalimages.sky\/lc-images-sky\/lcimg-5f7fb1e7-cec5-472d-b8cd-44568630dae7.jpeg\" data-priority=\"10\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"671\" data-crops='[{\"url\":\"https:\/\/liveblog.digitalimages.sky\/lc-images-sky\/lcimg-5f7fb1e7-cec5-472d-b8cd-44568630dae7.jpeg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":671},{\"url\":\"https:\/\/liveblog.digitalimages.sky\/lc-images-sky\/lcimg-593a1b9b-0c02-44f5-b909-a75c1928a3a5.jpeg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":419}]' data-caption=\"Jagland and Putin in Sochi in 2013\" data-source=\"AP\" data-url><\/ncpost-content><\/p>\n<p><b>From Epstein with love<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In May that year, Epstein emailed Jagland, who was then serving as secretary-general of the Council of Europe, saying: &ldquo;I know you are going to meet putin [sic] on the 20th, He is desperate to engage western investment in his country&hellip;I have his solution.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He adds: &ldquo;I recoginize [sic] that there are human rights issues that are at the forefront of your trip howver [sic], if it is helpful to you, I would be happy to meet with him sometime in june [sic] and explain the solution to his top prioirty [sic], I think this would be good for your goals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But it appears it never happened. After pestering Jagland to follow up within Putin&rsquo;s team, Epstein complains that he&rsquo;s heard nothing back.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2014, Jagland told Epstein he was going to meet Putin in Sochi. &ldquo;Why don&rsquo;t you come?&rdquo; he asks. We don&rsquo;t know what happened next.<\/p>\n<p><ncpost-content data-type=\"BILDE\" data-src=\"https:\/\/liveblog.digitalimages.sky\/lc-images-sky\/lcimg-a353b167-8c86-4de7-8c47-ba36525435e5.jpeg\" data-priority=\"10\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"710\" data-crops='[{\"url\":\"https:\/\/liveblog.digitalimages.sky\/lc-images-sky\/lcimg-a353b167-8c86-4de7-8c47-ba36525435e5.jpeg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":710},{\"url\":\"https:\/\/liveblog.digitalimages.sky\/lc-images-sky\/lcimg-0bed7080-19ae-48c2-a483-e25b226bd115.jpeg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":444}]' data-caption=\"Putin walks on stage ahead of the 2014 Sochi Olympics\" data-source=\"Reuters\" data-url><\/ncpost-content><\/p>\n<p>But in July that year, Epstein still sounds desperate to meet the Russian president. In an email, a contact tells him: &ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t able to convince Reid to change his schedule to go meet Putin with you.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Bad idea now after plane crash,&rdquo; Epstein replies &ndash; a reference to Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 which was shot down over eastern Ukraine three days prior, killing all 298 people on board.<\/p>\n<p>But it seems it didn&rsquo;t put Epstein off for long.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, in July 2015, he tells Jagland: &ldquo;I still would like to meet putin [sic] and talk economy, i would really appreciate your assistance.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>There are more attempts in 2016, 2017 and finally in June 2018 &ndash; just one line in an email to Jagland once again: &ldquo;Would love to meet with putin [sic].&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s certainly no smoking gun &ndash; it appears to be more a case of unrequited love.<\/p>\n<p><b>Silence in Moscow<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When asked about files, the Kremlin said today that it did not receive any offers from Epstein about a meeting with Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&rsquo;s interesting to see how the Russian media is covering this story because, well, they&rsquo;re not.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s very little mention of it at all, and where there is, the focus is elsewhere &ndash; on Bill Clinton, Peter Mandelson and the crown princess of Norway.<\/p>\n<p>So even though there&rsquo;s no evidence or implication that he ever actually met with Epstein, Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s appearance in the files is still not something Moscow wants to highlight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Prince Edward responds &ndash; as Andrew &lsquo;pet&rsquo; email revealed | Latest from Epstein files<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ivor Bennett, Moscow correspondent What has Vladimir Putin got to do with Jeffrey Epstein? The Russian president&rsquo;s name appears more than 1,000 times in the latest files. His inclusion doesn&rsquo;t imply any wrongdoing, and there&rsquo;s no evidence the two ever met, but boy, it sounds like Epstein wanted to. The emails appear to reveal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/prince-edward-responds-as-andrew-pet-email-revealed-latest-from-epstein-files\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Prince Edward responds &#8211; as Andrew &#8216;pet&#8217; email revealed | Latest from Epstein files&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}