“This decision follows the emergence of new information contained in the Epstein files released on Friday, which include references to Senator Mitchell,” the university said. The development comes a day after the US-Ireland Alliance announced that its George J Mitchell scholarship programme would no longer bear his name. In a new statement to the BBC, a spokesperson for Mitchell said: “In the recently released documents, an allegation involving Senator Mitchell by Ms Virginia Giuffre is repeated. “In 2021, Ms Giuffre supplied a photograph to OK Magazine, which incorrectly captioned it as depicting Senator Mitchell standing behind Jeffrey Epstein. The individual in the photograph was not Senator Mitchell.

Source: The Irish Times February 02, 2026 18:47 UTC