{"id":2264407,"date":"2026-02-03T09:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2264407"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:20:18","slug":"epstein-files-reveal-messages-involving-sarah-ferguson-including-just-marry-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/epstein-files-reveal-messages-involving-sarah-ferguson-including-just-marry-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein files reveal messages involving Sarah Ferguson, including \u2018just marry me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"hydrate-root sc-10wlkbs-0\" data-component=\"Newsletter\" data-loading=\"lazy\" data-theme-name=\"base\">\n<aside class=\"sc-y4bm30-0 jwWhkK newsletter-component sc-1ge0fwe-0\" data-newsletter-key=\"receiveIndyHeadlinesNews\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-2 kcLSBk\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-1 inRDZn\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-3\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-4 hfveGa\">\n<p><h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-6 fvoxRM fafQAy\">Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-8 fvoxRM fvWmZq\">Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-7 fvoxRM hkVmms\">Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"sc-eaj12q-0 hKcUSR sc-culv3z-0 eifaJK sc-1ix0cah-0 PYnPb sc-y4bm30-10 fUEDPX\"><use href=\"#600f53465147d717\"\/><\/svg><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-2 kcLSBk sc-y4bm30-9 iQYNfz\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/static-assets\/images\/newsletters\/morningHeadlines1_1.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Morning Headlines\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/sarah-ferguson\">Sarah Ferguson<\/a> told <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> he was the \u201cbrother I have always wished for\u201d and later <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/epstein-files-trump-andrew-mandelson-latest-news-b2911927.html\">said she needed \u00a320,000 <\/a>for rent following the collapse of her business venture, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/epstein-files-revelations-andrew-trump-musk-b2911944.html\">newly released documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/emails\">Emails<\/a> published by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/us-department-of-justice\">US Department of Justice<\/a> (DoJ) reveal the depth of Ms Ferguson\u2019s<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/crime\/epstein-files-elon-musk-prince-andrew-richard-branson-b2911945.html\"> friendship with Epstein <\/a>and suggest the disgraced financier wanted her help to clear his name. <\/p>\n<p>In one email exchange from 2009, the then Duchess of York updated Epstein on potential opportunities for her business brands and books. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn just one week, after your lunch, it seems the energy has lifted\u201d, she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have never been more touched by a friends [<em>sic<\/em>] kindness than your compliment to me infront of my girls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you Jeffrey for being the brother I have always wished for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next year, in another email between \u201cSarah\u201d and Epstein she calls him a \u201clegend\u201d and describes her \u201cgratitude\u201d for him. <\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cXx I am at your service . Just marry me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-awdjp1-2 cbpRGD sc-awdjp1-3 image align-center\">\n<figure class=\"sc-1cbdeug-0 cXcwgU\">\n<div data-gallery-length=\"2\" class=\"sc-awdjp1-0 bAjCCA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/12\/20\/16\/878ea6e07c84ae9d2943881581f6fc94Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzY2MzMxNzU5-2.82851968.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/12\/20\/16\/878ea6e07c84ae9d2943881581f6fc94Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzY2MzMxNzU5-2.82851968.jpg?quality=75&amp;width=320&amp;auto=webp 320w, https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/12\/20\/16\/878ea6e07c84ae9d2943881581f6fc94Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzY2MzMxNzU5-2.82851968.jpg?quality=75&amp;width=640&amp;auto=webp 640w\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Handout photo of Sarah Ferguson (centre) released in the latest tranche of the Epstein files\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\"\/><\/p>\n<p><button class=\"sc-1uf4o3q-0 dkRtZs inline-gallery-btn\" id=\"trigger-autogallery-9061\"><span class=\"sc-1uf4o3q-1 hwVecx\">open image in gallery<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"sc-1cbdeug-1 sc-1cbdeug-3 gtVitN hgzWpY\">Handout photo of Sarah Ferguson (centre) released in the latest tranche of the Epstein files<span class=\"sc-1cbdeug-7 exGSyR\"> <!-- -->(<!-- -->DOJ<!-- -->)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another email exchange believed to be from Epstein to three others, including his publicist, in March 2011 said: \u201cI think Fergie can now say, I am not a pedo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It adds: \u201cShe was DUPED into believeing [<em>sic<\/em>] false stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Epstein had been accused of abusing dozens of teenage girls between 1999 and 2007. He avoided federal sex trafficking charges and served 13 months in jail for lesser state charges of soliciting prostitution from someone under 18 in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Emails show Epstein\u2019s publicist at the time Mike Sitrick said they have a strategy to \u201cget newspapers to stop calling you a pedophile\u201d and one was to get \u201cFergie to retract\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSarah\u201d emailed Epstein a month later saying she \u201cdid not\u201d and \u201cwould not\u201d call him a \u201cP\u201d, and that she had acted to \u201cprotect my own brand\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Ferguson wrote to Epstein and said: &#8220;I urgently need 20,000 pounds ($27,521) for rent today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe landlord has threatened to go to the newspapers if I don\u2019t pay. Any brainwaves?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The email exchange started between Epstein and David Stern, a lawyer and former commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the US, who shared a copy of an ABC article questioning if Ferguson\u2019s finances were in \u201cjeopardy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein suggests the leak could come from \u201cdisgruntled investors\u201d and Ferguson replies confirming an investor has \u201cbroken a confidentiality agreement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Although the email chain appears to end once she explains that she needs money for rent, elsewhere an email from Epstein claims to have helped her financially for 15 years. <\/p>\n<p>In several emails, Ferguson\u2019s daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie are named, including Epstein asking if they are free to say hello in July 2010. <\/p>\n<p>Emails in July 2009 also indicate a lunch was held between Ferguson, her daughters and Epstein. <\/p>\n<p>Epstein was invited to several events involving the royal family giving him access to British high society. <\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-awdjp1-2 cbpRGD sc-awdjp1-3 image align-center\">\n<figure class=\"sc-1cbdeug-0 cXcwgU\">\n<div data-gallery-length=\"2\" class=\"sc-awdjp1-0 CbYDg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/12\/25\/00\/9c31a12ff24a6e71950badb4eb47b148Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzY2Njk5NjAw-2.43662064.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/12\/25\/00\/9c31a12ff24a6e71950badb4eb47b148Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzY2Njk5NjAw-2.43662064.jpg?quality=75&amp;width=320&amp;auto=webp 320w, https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/12\/25\/00\/9c31a12ff24a6e71950badb4eb47b148Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzY2Njk5NjAw-2.43662064.jpg?quality=75&amp;width=640&amp;auto=webp 640w\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Both Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will soon move out of the Royal Lodge after their connections with Jeffrey Epstein were fully realised\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\"\/><\/p>\n<p><button class=\"sc-1uf4o3q-0 dkRtZs inline-gallery-btn\" id=\"trigger-autogallery-9062\"><span class=\"sc-1uf4o3q-1 hwVecx\">open image in gallery<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"sc-1cbdeug-1 sc-1cbdeug-3 gtVitN hgzWpY\">Both Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will soon move out of the Royal Lodge after their connections with Jeffrey Epstein were fully realised<span class=\"sc-1cbdeug-7 exGSyR\"> <!-- -->(<!-- -->PA<!-- -->)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Then Prince Andrew\u2019s private secretary Amanda Thirsk wrote to Epstein on behalf of Ferguson in February 2010, to invite him to Andrew\u2019s 50th birthday party at St James\u2019s Palace in London.<\/p>\n<p>Another email from Epstein to hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin in 2009 claims &#8220;fergie said she could organize tea in the buckingham palace apts.. or windsor castle&#8221; [<em>sic<\/em>].<\/p>\n<p>A message sent by Ferguson to Epstein congratulating the paedophile on the birth of a \u201cbaby boy\u201d after he was released from jail in 2011, suggests he had a secret child, <em>The Telegraph<\/em> reported. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t know if you are still on this BBM but heard from The Duke that you have had a baby boy. Even though you never kept in touch, I am still here with love, friendship and congratulations on your baby boy. Sarah xx,\u201d she said in the message sent 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But it has never been established if Epstein had any children. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/andrew-mountbatten-windsor\">Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a>, whose titles have already been stripped, will soon move out of the Royal Lodge. His ex-wife Ferguson will also need to move home and has already been dropped by several charities over her links to Epstein. <\/p>\n<p>Representatives of Sarah Ferguson declined to comment, but a spokesman for Sarah\u2019s Trust said on Monday evening that the charity would close for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>They said: \u201cOur chair Sarah Ferguson and the board of trustees have agreed that with regret the charity will shortly close for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been under discussion and in train for some months,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cWe remain extremely proud of the work of the trust over recent years. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have partnered with over 60 other charities in over 20 countries, providing education, healthcare, crisis response and environmental projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe delivered over 150,000 aid parcels during the Covid pandemic, provided medical aid and training for those affected by the war in Ukraine and delivered education for over 200 children in Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sarah Ferguson told Jeffrey Epstein he was the \u201cbrother I have always wished for\u201d and later said she needed \u00a320,000 for rent following the collapse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2264408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Epstein-files-reveal-messages-involving-Sarah-Ferguson-including-\u2018just-marry.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264409,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264407\/revisions\/2264409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}