How Jeffrey Epstein used the glamour of the Nobel Peace Prize to entice his global network of elites
https://apnews.com/article/epstein-nobel-jagland-branson-summers-bannon-trump-a947bbf2bd307658014862d01517d21f
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How Jeffrey Epstein used the glamour of the Nobel Peace Prize to entice his global network of elites
https://apnews.com/article/epstein-nobel-jagland-branson-summers-bannon-trump-a947bbf2bd307658014862d01517d21f
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Ugggh, more reason to hate that disgusting Prize and organization.
If Epstein wasn’t so evil he would be impressive. How does one man, albeit one born into privilege, build up a network of the most powerful people in the world like this. He must have been extremely charismatic and oppertunistic.
We know Bill Gates had high hopes to get the peace prize via Epstein. It’s all compromised, the whole system is rotten to the core.
Peace Prize…. Hmm, is there anybody else attached to Epstein who has been obsessed with getting a peace prize? Oh right, the guy who got the FIFA peace prize.
No wonder a certain someone is so obsessed with this prize
Once all of this is settled I think us the people need like a gigantic lecture on the signs of duplicity.
What exactly is glamorous about the *Peace* Prize? Those kooks gave it to Kissinger, a well known lover of peace.
I think it’s time for Norway to put an end to that bullshit medal.
Its simply amazing how Russian and North Korean agent Jeff Epstein was able to infiltrate into the highest and most ethical élites of the West!
So this is where the hunger for that price is from for Mr Mango.
Epstein and Trumpedo are just the errand boys. The true evil operating in the background has figured out the weakness of these rich elites and keeps them running their errand. They benefit from chaos and instability and these errand boys make that happen.
The whole price is just BS and Jagland is a fraud that should rot in prison.
They should stop handing out Nobel Peace Prize altogether. Those that deserve it don’t need it. And those that want it do not deserve it.
Ah no wonder $47 is so obsessed w the Nobel Peace prize
Wait so was this why Trump wants it so bad? It’s been promised to him throughout the years of knowing Epstine?
The peace price has always been, and will always be, complete bullshit
By [MARK LEWIS](https://apnews.com/author/mark-lewis)
Updated 7:35 PM CET, February 14, 2026
[Leer en español](https://apnews.com/article/epstein-archivos-nobel-noruega-c9cac99274cb0c3c1e0c327f509491c3)
STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly played up his ties to the former head of the Nobel Peace Prize committee in invitations to and chats with elites like Richard Branson, Larry Summers, Bill Gates and Steve Bannon, a top ally of President Donald Trump, [the Epstein files show.](https://apnews.com/article/epstein-files-europe-mandelson-andrew-jagland-juul-f83e424195d6af111ecec1cb9fda0ac9)
Thorbjørn Jagland, who headed the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 2009 to 2015, turns up hundreds of times in the millions of [documents about the former U.S. financier](https://apnews.com/article/epstein-files-justice-department-trump-ed743598c320b94bd9d91631618678d9) and convicted sex offender that were released by the U.S. Justice Department last month.
Since the release, Jagland, 75, [has been charged](https://apnews.com/article/epstein-files-europe-mandelson-andrew-jagland-juul-f83e424195d6af111ecec1cb9fda0ac9) in Norway for “aggravated corruption” in connection with an investigation prompted by information in the files, the economic crime unit of Norwegian police Økokrim said.
Økokrim has said it would investigate whether gifts, travel and loans were received in connection with Jagland’s position. Its teams searched his Oslo residence on Thursday, plus two other properties in Risør, a coastal town to the south, and in Rauland to the west.
His attorneys at Elden law firm in Norway said Jagland denies the charges, and was questioned by the police unit on Thursday.
While there is no evidence in the documents seen so far of any outright lobbying for the Nobel Peace Prize, Epstein repeatedly played up hosting Jagland at his properties in New York and Paris in the 2010s.
# From an ‘interesting’ guest to subject of banter with Bannon
In September 2018, during Trump’s first term and in an apparent allusion to his interest in the peace prize, Epstein had a varied text-message exchange with Bannon, at one point writing — in one of many messages with untidy grammar: “donalds head would explode if he knew you were now buds with the guy who on monday will decide the nobel peace prize.”
“I told him next year it should be you when we settle china,” he added, without elaborating.
In one email from 2013, mixing in investment tips and praise for PR tips, Epstein told British entrepreneur and magnate [Richard Branson](https://apnews.com/article/epstein-trump-musk-andrew-tisch-google-682447e50bf9a3643a36c9b54ccdfa22) that Jagland would be staying with Epstein in September that year, adding: “if you are there, you might find him interesting.”
A year after she left a job as White House counsel to President Barack Obama, in 2015, [Kathy Ruemmler](https://apnews.com/article/kathy-ruemmler-resigns-goldman-sachs-epstein-3ba7b9e87cc8e38f563f91917630e484) got an email from Epstein saying: “head of nobel peace prize coming to visit, want to join?”
If anything it shows how human networks and human nature are more important for how things play out than laws and rules. Well, except for those that get punished for not following laws and rules, which is not the case here.