Terje Rød-Larsen

Terje Rød-Larsen (born 22 November 1947) is a Norwegian former diplomat and politician. He held a number of public offices in Norway and at the UN until 2004. After leaving public service, he became a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, and has worked to bolster contact between the MAGA movement and the European far right, despite previously having been a Labour Party politician in Norway. Aftenposten described him as the central node in Epstein's network in Norway. Rød-Larsen described Epstein as "my best friend" and "a thoroughly good human being".

Rød-Larsen and his wife Mona Juul are both under investigation for corruption in Norway related to their ties to Epstein. Norwegian authorities alerted U.S. Epstein investigators in 2019 after reports that Terje Rød-Larsen's think tank, the International Peace Institute, allegedly brought in young and unqualified women from Eastern Europe on very short internships whose photos were shared with Epstein, despite the institute having received extensive Norwegian state funding.

Morits Skaugen, a since-bankrupt shipowner, said he was forced to sell his large Frogner apartment for half its value to Rød-Larsen and Juul, with Epstein acting as the middle man, stating that the sale was not voluntary and that his family was threatened on Rød-Larsen's and Juul's behalf by Epstein. Epstein showed Skaugen pictures of himself with the chairman of the bank that Skaugen's company had lent money from and a detailed map of all his business connections around the world, and also threatened to fire one of Skaugen's relatives from the International Peace Institute unless Skaugen sold Rød-Larsen the apartment for half its value, stating that they could not continue "with one of your family members working for us". He described the actions taken by Rød-Larsen and Juul with the help of Epstein as "mafia methods".