Richard Branson had breakfast with Jeffrey Epstein three years after the paedophile was jailed for child prostitution, court document says

Tycoon Sir Richard Branson had breakfast with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein three years after the US financier was jailed for a child prostitution offence, a court document claims.

In 2019, after Sir Richard’s name had appeared in a ‘little black book’ of high-profile Epstein contacts, a spokeswoman for the billionaire Virgin founder said that the two men had ‘no personal or business relationship’.

But a bombshell legal document seen by The Mail on Sunday reveals that in 2011 Epstein emailed his private banker Jes Staley and the former Labour Cabinet Minister Peter Mandelson to tell them of his alleged meeting with Sir Richard.

The document states: ‘On January 7, 2011 Epstein writes to Peter Mandelson (copying Staley) ‘had breakfast with Richard Branson, he is also a big fan of Africa’.

Epstein was a convicted sex offender at the time of the alleged meeting. In June 2008 he pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution and was sentenced to 18 months in jail.

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