\n Mona Juul is the latest high-profile Norwegian to be linked to the Epstein files [Getty\/file photo]<\/p>\n
Norway’s ambassador to Jordan and Iraq<\/a> has resigned after an investigation was launched into her ties to late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, the foreign ministry said Sunday.<\/p>\n Mona Juul, who played a key role in the secret Israeli-Palestinian negotiations which led to the Oslo Accords<\/a> of the early 1990s, is among several high-profile Norwegian figures swept up in the latest Epstein file release.<\/p>\n “This is a correct and necessary decision. Juul’s contact with the convicted abuser Epstein has shown a serious lapse in judgment,” Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said in a statement.<\/p>\n The senior diplomat was temporarily suspended on Monday pending an investigation into her alleged links to Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking.<\/p>\n Epstein left $10 million in his will to Juul’s two children with her husband, fellow diplomat and Oslo talks broker Terje Rod-Larsen, according to Norwegian media.<\/p>\n