Sarah Ferguson appeared to criticise the Royal Family in an email sent to disgraced sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, according to newly released files. The US Government released more than 3million documents related to Jeffrey Epstein last week.
In 10 blunt words, the former Duchess of York told Epstein: “No woman has ever left the Royal family with her head”. The former Duchess wrote to the late financier via email in July 2010, telling him that she was being “hung out to dry”.
In May that year, Sarah was caught in a tabloid sting, appearing to agree to cash for access to the then-Prince Andrew. She also took part in a television interview with US host Oprah Winfrey. In an exchange with Epstein in July, she appeared to write: “Have you died on me? Don’t… Please you are my pillar.”
Sarah Ferguson then proceeds to tell him she needs a place to stay. Referring to the UK press, part of the email exchange states: “…I am now 1000 percent being hung out to dry, just as I predicted you will see, the Press will have me exiled. I am totally on my own now.
“This is beyond scandalous and nobody can do anything. I cannot believe what this is all coming to. I have to return to face my judge and jury and be hung yet again.”
She added: “Just as I always said, no woman has ever left the royal family with her head, and the [sic] cannot behead me, therefore they will discredit me. Totally to obliteration. I have no words.”
At the time, PricewaterhouseCoopers had been engaged to audit her finances.
Epstein is shown in the documents to have given Sarah significant financial help. He provided £15,000 to help pay off her debts, including those owed to a former member of her staff. She later described the decision to accept the arrangement as a “gigantic error”.
Files also showed Ms Ferguson thanking Epstein profusely for his assistance in helping her with business contacts, and asking his advice. Documents also appear to show that she visited Epstein just days after he was released from prison for sex offences, and emails suggest she took her adult daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie, with her.
In a 2011 interview, Ms Ferguson said: “I would never have anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again. I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children. It was a gigantic error of judgment.”
That came three years after Epstein’s guilty plea in 2008 to soliciting prostitution, including with a minor.
Being named in the Epstein files is not a sign of wrongdoing.
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