{"id":6540,"date":"2026-02-09T14:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/6540\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:17:09","slug":"norwegian-ambassador-resigns-as-she-faces-scrutiny-over-contacts-with-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/6540\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian ambassador resigns as she faces scrutiny over contacts with Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

OSLO, Norway — A Norwegian ambassador who was involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts in the 1990s and most recently served in Jordan has resigned as she faces scrutiny over her contacts with Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, the country’s Foreign Ministry said.<\/p>\n

The ministry announced Mona Juul’s resignation on Sunday evening, days after she was suspended as Norway’s ambassador to Jordan. That followed reports that Epstein left the children of Juul and her husband, Terje R\u00f8d-Larsen, $10 million in a will drawn up shortly before his death by suicide in a New York prison in 2019.<\/p>\n

Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said Juul’s decision was \u201ccorrect and necessary.\u201d Her contact with the convicted sex offender showed a \u201cserious lapse in judgment,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cthe case makes it difficult to restore the trust that the role requires.\u201d<\/p>\n

A ministry investigation into Juul’s knowledge of and contact with Epstein will continue, and Juul will continue discussions with the ministry \u201cso that the matter can be clarified,\u201d Eide said.<\/p>\n

The ministry said it also launched a review of its funding of and contact with the International Peace Institute, a New York-based think tank, during the period when it was headed by R\u00f8d-Larsen. Eide said R\u00f8d-Larsen also had shown poor judgment regarding Epstein.<\/p>\n

R\u00f8d-Larsen and Juul were among those involved in facilitating the landmark Oslo Accords aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

Juul acknowledged in a statement to Norwegian news agency NTB last week that it had been \u201cimprecise\u201d to describe her contact with Epstein as minimal, but said that the contact originated in her husband’s relationship with Epstein and she had no independent social or professional relationship with him. <\/p>\n

She wrote that her contact with Epstein had been sporadic and private, not part of her official duties, but acknowledged that she should have been much more careful.<\/p>\n

The latest batch of Epstein files has cast an unflattering spotlight on several prominent Norwegian figures. Crown Princess Mette-Marit<\/a> on Friday issued an apology \u201cto all of you whom I have disappointed” after documents offered more details of her relationship with Epstein.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s economic crimes unit has opened a corruption investigation into former Prime Minister Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland \u2014 who also once headed the committee that hands out the Nobel Peace Prize \u2014 over his ties with Epstein. His lawyer said Jagland would cooperate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSLO, Norway — A Norwegian ambassador who was involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts in the 1990s and most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[85],"tags":[5771,478,5769,1157,1162,157,156,1158,5770,1510,1161],"class_list":["post-6540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oslo","tag-5771","tag-article","tag-children","tag-diplomacy","tag-general-news","tag-norway","tag-oslo","tag-politics","tag-prisons","tag-suicide","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}