Emails Sarah Ferguson sent to Jeffrey Epstein – even after his conviction for sex offences – depict her as needy and desperate, with repeated requests for cash
Sarah Ferguson has ‘gone to ground’ following the latest drop of Epstein files, with her daughters ‘mortified’ over the revelations.
Amongst millions of documents released by the US Department of Justice are threads of communication which appear to be between Jeffrey Epstein and the former Duchess of York. Fergie comes across as increasingly desperate in pleading emails to the convicted paedophile, chasing both his money and his support.
A humiliating email exchange, recently released by the DOJ, shows Sarah telling the disgraced financier that she “desperately” needed money – and even asks Epstein to give her a job.
“But why, I don’t understand, don’t you just get me to be your House Assistant. I am the most capable and desperately need the money,” the email, dated May 2010, reads, adding, “Please Jeffrey think about it.”
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In August that year she emailed him again, according to the Daily Mail, saying: “I am feeling very traumatised and alone. I am wanting to work for you at organising your houses.”
A month later, she said: ‘when are you going to employ me…. My friendship is steadfast to the end, even after the body is cold… Love you now and always… And I know you do tooo. [sic]’
The messages were sent after Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison in June 2008, but was let out five months early on July 22, 2009. Under the terms of his release Epstein was required to register as a sex offender.
It’s also claimed that while Epstein was on house arrest after he was released, Fergie travelled to his home with her girls in tow. At the time, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie would have been 20 and 19 respectively.
In another message from January 2010, Sarah fawned over Epstein, writing: “You are a legend. I really don’t have the words to describe my love, gratitude for your generosity and kindness. Xx I am at your service. Just marry me.”
In further correspondence, she thanked Jeffrey “for being the brother I have always wished for”, and also made a crude reference to her own daughter’s sex life.
There are also requests for money. In March 2011, Sarah admitted borrowing £15,000 from Epstein, but in an interview with the Evening Standard she said she made a “terrible, terrible error of judgment”, adding: “I abhor paedophilia”.
Emails appear to show, however, that the former Duchess repeatedly turned to Epstein for help as her business ventures failed. According to the latest file release, in one message from 2009 she told him: “I urgently need £20,000 for rent today. The landlord has threatened to go to the newspapers if I don’t pay. Any brainwaves?”
Account transactions further show that Epstein also transferred $150,000 (£109,000) to Fergie following a share sale, wiring the cash to the former Duchess. (She is also said to have been bailed out by the late Queen in the past when the bank Coutts “demanded £500,000 within 14 days” .)
Sarah actually later apologised for her comments to the Evening Standard. Just one month after she disowned him, Sarah backtracked in an email to Epstein, calling him a “steadfast, generous and supreme friend”.
“As you know, I did not, absolutely not, say the P [pedophile] word about you,” she reportedly wrote. “I know you feel hellaciously let down by me. And I must humbly apologise to you and your heart for that. You have always been a steadfast, generous and supreme friend to me and my family.”
A spokesperson for the ex duchess said at the time that Sarah backtracked to Epstein through fear, as he had “threatened” her with legal action.
Sarah has gone to ground in recent months – but her whereabouts were seemingly revealed last week. It emerged that she recently spent time in the French Alps before moving on to the United Arab Emirates – where her youngest daughter Eugenie was recently spotted, having travelled to Qatar for an art fair as part of her job with art dealer Hauser and Wirth.
Fergie is even said to be plotting a ‘comeback’ of sorts. It’s claimed that the disgraced Duchess is now brazenly scouting around for a new PR team as she plots her return – without Andrew – with the hopes of continuing to live in the Windsor area. Sources say she has told friends: “I need to get back to work. I need money.”
But it’s going to be incredibly difficult for Sarah to rebuild the life she once had, according to royal correspondent Jennie Bond. “If it is true that she still thinks she can make some sort of comeback, she is more deluded than I thought possible,” she told the Mirror.
“Her charities have deserted her, her publishers have pulped her latest book, and almost every day brings more revelations about her fawning and prolonged friendship with the convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.
“Ferguson has made some spectacular comebacks before, and has even managed to get herself back into the family fold for royal social gatherings, such as Christmas at Sandringham. But to think she could come back from this latest disgrace – with her emails calling Epstein a legend and a supreme friend, even …perhaps jokingly…asking him to marry her, suggests she is away with the fairies.”
Representatives of Sarah Ferguson have been contacted for comment.