Sarah Ferguson appeared to have sent a flirtatious message to Jeffrey Epstein suggesting he marry her and another woman.
Sent by the former duchess to the convicted pedophile's private email address on September 17, 2009, he apparently wrote: “You can marry her too. She's single and has a great body. Well, marry me and then we'll hire her.”
Her ex-husband, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, also appears in email exchanges with Epstein, where Andrew appears to invite him to Buckingham Palace and Sarah apparently says: “I am at your service. Just marry me.”
She also told Epstein that he was her “pillar,” while begging him not to die and then asking for a job, according to newly released documents.
Emails released by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) reveal the depth of Ferguson's friendship with Epstein and suggest the disgraced financier wanted his help to clear his name.
Ferguson appeared to email Epstein in July 2010, two years after a Florida state court convicted him of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute, saying: “Have you died on me? No… Please, you are my rock.”
She continued a month later confessing: “I feel very traumatized and alone. I want to work for you in organizing your homes.
“I'm in the south of France,” he said, adding, “I have the perfect butler.”
In a follow-up email in September, she asked him, “When are you going to hire me?”
In a previous email exchange from 2009, the then-Duchess of York called Epstein the “brother I've always wanted” while updating Epstein on potential opportunities for her brands and business books.
“In just one week, after lunch, the energy seems to have lifted,” he wrote. “I have never been so touched by a friend [sic] kindness that your compliment towards me in front of my daughters.
“Thank you Jeffrey for being the brother I always wanted.”
The following year, in another email between “Sarah” and Epstein, she calls him a “legend” and describes her “gratitude” to him.
And he added: “Xx I am at your service. Just marry me.”
Another email exchange believed to have been from Epstein to three other people, including his publicist, in March 2011 read: “I think Fergie can now say: I'm not a pedophile.”
He adds: “She was TRICKED into believing [sic] false stories.”
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 prison on misdemeanor state charges of soliciting someone under 18 for prostitution in 2008.
The emails show that Epstein's publicist at the time, Mike Sitrick, said they had a strategy to “get the newspapers to stop calling you a pedophile” and one was to get “Fergie to retract it.”
“Sarah” emailed Epstein a month later telling him “no” and “wouldn’t call him” “P,” and that she had acted to “protect my own brand.”
In 2009, Ferguson wrote to Epstein and said: “I urgently need £20,000 ($27,521) for rent today” following the collapse of his business.
“The owner has threatened to go to the newspapers if I don't pay. Any ideas?”
The email exchange began between Epstein and a man named David Stern, who shared a copy of an ABC article that questioned whether Ferguson's finances were in “jeopardy.”
Epstein suggests that the leak could come from “disgruntled investors” and Ferguson responds by confirming that an investor has “broken a confidentiality agreement.”
Although the email chain appears to end with her explaining that she needs money for rent, elsewhere an email from Epstein claims to have helped her financially for 15 years.
In several emails, Ferguson's daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie are named, and Epstein asks if he can say hello to them in July 2010.
Emails from July 2009 also suggest that a lunch was held between Ferguson, her daughters and Epstein.
Epstein was invited to several events related to the royal family, giving him access to British high society.
Prince Andrew's private secretary, Amanda Thirsk, then wrote to Epstein on Ferguson's behalf in February 2010, inviting him to Andrew's 50th birthday party at St James's Palace in London.
Another email from Epstein to hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin in 2009 states that “Fergie said she could host the tea at the Buckingham Palace apartments… or at Windsor Castle.” [sic].
A message sent by Ferguson to Epstein congratulating the pedophile on the birth of a “baby” after his release from prison in 2011, suggests he had a secret child. The telegraph reported.
“I don't know if you're still on this BBM but you found out from The Duke that you've had a baby. Although you never kept in touch, I'm still here with love, friendship and congratulations on your baby. Sarah xx,” he said in the message sent 15 years ago.
But it has never been established whether Epstein had children.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, whose titles have already been stripped, will soon leave the Royal Lodge. His ex-wife Ferguson will also have to move home and has already been abandoned by several charities over her links to Epstein.
The Independent has contacted Ferguson's representatives for comment. A spokesperson for Sarah's Trust said on Monday night that the charity would close for the foreseeable future.
They said: “Our chair, Sarah Ferguson, and the board of trustees have agreed that the charity will sadly close soon for the foreseeable future.
“This has been in discussion and preparation for some months,” the statement continued. “We remain very proud of the trust’s work over recent years.
“We have partnered with more than 60 charities in more than 20 countries, providing education, healthcare, crisis response and environmental projects.
“We delivered more than 150,000 aid packages during the Covid pandemic, provided medical assistance and training to those affected by the war in Ukraine and provided education to more than 200 children in Ghana.”
