Shocking new evidence shows Sarah, Duchess of York told Jeffrey Epstein he was a “supreme friend” just weeks after publicly announcing she’d have nothing to do with him. After decades in exile following her divorce from Prince Andrew, Fergie, 65, who still lives with her disgraced ex, has in recent years been invited to family events like the funeral of the Duchess of Kent. But those days could be numbered thanks to a grovelling email she sent to convicted sex offender Epstein in 2011.
In March that year, she did an interview with a UK newspaper about the American financier, after it was revealed she’d accepted $30,000 from him towards paying off her substantial debts, despite the fact he’d done time in prison for soliciting prostitution from girls as young as 14.
Public denouncement
Fergie said she regretted getting involved with him, abhorred paedophilia and “any sexual abuse of children”, and “will have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again. What he did was wrong”.
The duchess added, “My whole work is charity and children’s books, and I just did not think this through. I was so intent on being clear of my debt.”
But it has now emerged that six weeks later, she sent an email to Epstein “humbly” apologising for disowning him in the interview.
“You have always been a steadfast, generous and supreme friend to me and my family,” she wrote.
“As you know, I did absolutely not say the ‘P word’ [paedophile] about you but understand that it was reported I did.”
Fergie went on to say she was advised to have nothing to do with him, so she “shut down and ran away”.
She “saw all of my children’s work disappearing” and “didn’t want to hurt Andrew one more time”.
Acting in haste
“I was instructed to act with the utmost speed if I would have any chance of holding on to my career as a children’s author and philanthropist.”
She signed off by saying, “I write this from the truth of my heart.”
A spokesperson for Fergie says she sent the email to Epstein to try to stop him from suing her, which he threatened after the article appeared.
“As soon as she was aware of the extent of the allegations against him, she not only cut off contact but condemned him publicly, to the extent that he then threatened to sue her for defamation for associating him with paedophilia. But this has done nothing to appease charities close to Fergie’s heart. As we went to print, seven had dropped her as their patron or ambassador. The escalation of the scandal now begs the question: will the King force the Yorks out of their home, Royal Lodge
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