Jeffrey Epstein left millions to children of ‘disastrous’ Oslo Accords architects: Ex-UN official

A former UN human rights official says two central figures behind the “disastrous” Oslo process had close personal and financial ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including personal loans and an inheritance left to their children.

In remarks posted on X on Tuesday, citing newly released Jeffrey Epstein files, Craig Mokhiber, former head of the New York office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said Mona Juul and Terje Rød-Larsen, the Norwegian husband-and-wife team widely credited with engineering the Oslo process, were “revealed in the Epstein files as having close relations with (Mossad-adjacent Israel regime operative) Jeffrey Epstein.”

He added that the duo took personal loans from Epstein and that “their children were reportedly left $10 million in Epstein’s will.”

Mokhiber described the Oslo Accords, signed in the 1990s, as a “disastrous” one that “side-stepped international law, devastated Palestinian rights for three decades, and consolidated the Israeli regime’s unlawful position in Palestine.”

Persistent pro-Israeli prioritization at UN

He also noted that Larsen later served as the UN’s chief envoy for the West Asia region, known by its acronym as UNSCO, adding that the latter “was briefly my boss when I worked for the UN in Palestine in the 90s,” and that he was subsequently “forced to step down in scandal as head of the International Peace Institute due to his financial dealings with Epstein.”

“I can’t prove that Israel has corrupted UN political officials working on Palestine,” Mokhiber wrote, “but I know that Larsen and his successors as UN envoys (UNSCO) all consistently prioritized Israel regime sensibilities over international law, and the human rights of the Palestinian people.”

He further stated that this approach persisted “despite the best efforts of the UN’s human rights personnel with whom UNSCO has often been in conflict.”

Epstein, pro-Israel funding networks, and political influence

Mokhiber’s remarks came amid renewed scrutiny of Epstein’s international political and financial connections following the release of leaked emails detailing his role in pro-Israeli networks in the United States.

According to the leaked correspondence, Epstein exercised extensive control over the finances of billionaire Leslie Wexner and the Wexner Foundation, which donated more than $128 million to pro-Israeli causes between 2003 and 2018. Emails obtained by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a whistleblower, and reported by the Drop Site News outlet indicated that Epstein functioned as a de facto chief financial officer, overseeing taxes, transfers, and politically sensitive grants.

The emails also showed Epstein’s involvement in funding initiatives such as college Hillels, Birthright trips, and the Wexner Israel Fellowship at Harvard, which sponsored Israeli officials. Despite his 2008 guilty plea to soliciting a minor, correspondence suggested his continued behind-the-scenes role in Wexner’s financial and political activities.

UNSCO successors and Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’

Mokhiber also pointed to a troubling continuity among senior UN envoys on Palestine, singling out Nickolay Mladenov, Larsen’s most recent successor at UNSCO.

“Equally shockingly,” Mokhiber wrote, “Larsen’s most recent successor at UNSCO (Nickolay Mladenov) has even agreed to serve on [US President Donald] Trump’s lawless, colonial ‘Board of Peace.’”

In earlier remarks, Mokhiber had sharply criticized Trump’s so-called Gaza “Board of Peace,” calling it “structurally and functionally an extension of the occupation.” He had said the body, which Trump claims will oversee “transitional governance” in Gaza, is “led by one of the genocide co-perpetrators with the authoritative participation of the other.”

“To be clear: The occupation of Gaza is unlawful under international law. Israel and the US are perpetrating genocide in Gaza,” Mokhiber said, adding that such actions violate “the highest (‘jus cogens & erga omnes’) rules of international law.”

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