Late financier and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon are seen on this handout picture from the Epstein property launched by Home Oversight Committee Democrats in Washington, D.C., U.S., on December 18, 2025. Home Oversight Committee Democrats/Handout through Reuters THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN MODIFIED AND SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. REDACTED AREA FROM SOURCE.
Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly performed up his ties to the previous head of the Nobel Peace Prize committee in invites to and chats with elites like Richard Branson, Larry Summers, Invoice Gates and Steve Bannon, a high ally of President Donald Trump, the Epstein recordsdata present.
Thorbjørn Jagland, who headed the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 2009 to 2015, turns up tons of of occasions within the tens of millions of paperwork in regards to the former U.S. financier and convicted intercourse offender that have been launched by the U.S. Justice Division final month.
Because the launch, Jagland, 75, has been charged in Norway for “aggravated corruption” in reference to an investigation prompted by data within the recordsdata, the financial crime unit of Norwegian police Økokrim mentioned.
Økokrim has mentioned it might examine whether or not presents, journey and loans have been obtained in reference to Jagland’s place. Its groups searched his Oslo residence on Thursday, plus two different properties in Risør, a coastal city to the south, and in Rauland to the west.
His attorneys at Elden regulation agency in Norway mentioned Jagland denies the costs, and was questioned by the police unit on Thursday.
Whereas there is no such thing as a proof within the paperwork seen to this point of any outright lobbying for the Nobel Peace Prize, Epstein repeatedly performed up internet hosting Jagland at his properties in New York and Paris within the 2010s.
In September 2018, throughout Mr. Trump’s first time period and in an obvious allusion to his curiosity within the peace prize, Epstein had a diverse text-message change with Bannon, at one level writing — in one in all many messages with untidy grammar: “donalds head would explode if he knew you have been now buds with the man who on monday will determine the nobel peace prize.”
“I instructed him subsequent yr it ought to be you once we settle china,” he added, with out elaborating.
In a single e mail from 2013, mixing in funding suggestions and reward for PR suggestions, Epstein instructed British entrepreneur and magnate Richard Branson that Jagland can be staying with Epstein in September that yr, including: “if you’re there, you may discover him fascinating.”
A yr after she left a job as White Home counsel to President Barack Obama, in 2015, Kathy Ruemmler acquired an e mail from Epstein saying: “head of nobel peace prize coming to go to, wish to be part of?”
In 2012, Epstein wrote former Treasury Secretary and Harvard College president Larry Summers about Jagland, saying “head of the nobel peace prize staying with me, in case you have any curiosity.”
In that change, Epstein referred to Jagland — additionally a former Norwegian prime minister and former head of the Council of Europe, a human rights physique — as “not vivid” however somebody who supplied a “distinctive perspective.”
The financier wrote Invoice Gates in 2014, saying that Jagland had been reelected as head of the Council of Europe.
“That’s good,” the Microsoft co-founder and previously the world’s richest man, wrote. “I suppose his peace prize committee job can also be up within the air?”
Throughout Jagland’s tenure as chair of the committee, it gave the peace prize to Obama, in 2009, and the European Union in 2012.
Jagland was introduced into Epstein’s orbit by Terje Rød Larsen, a Norwegian diplomat who helped dealer the Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and Palestinians.
Larsen and his spouse are additionally going through corruption costs in Norway on account of their affiliation with Epstein.
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