Fergie’s Secret Emails to Jeffrey Epstein Leak Amid Reports Andrew Is ‘Seething’ by His Ex-Wife ‘Totally Humiliating’ Him
Prince Andrew has been mostly pushed out of public life by the British royal family, and a great part of this has to do with his close ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But he isn’t the only one who had close ties to Epstein. The Duke of York’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, reportedly had connections with Epstein too, and those have never gotten the same attention.
Now, new reports give context about the relationship between Sarah Ferguson and Jeffrey Epstein. Emails published on the Mail on Sunday reveal she apologized to Epstein weeks after publicly disowning him, back in 2011. This happened years after Epstein was convicted of felony solicitation of prostitutes and procuring persons under 18 for prostitution.
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Ironically, the revelations come just days after both Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew were photographed with other members of the royal family at the funeral of the Duchess of Kent at Westminster Cathedral.
The leaked emails show that on January 22, 2011, Ferguson sent Epstein an email addressed to “my dear, dear friend Jeffrey.” In the email she appeared to be thanking him for a loan, writing, “How can I thank you enough? You are a friend indeed and I will one day give it to you back. But I can not have the words to thank you now. Sometimes the heart speaks better than the words. You have my heart. With lots of love, dear Jeffrey.”
However, when news of the loan leaked, Ferguson told the Evening Standard, back in March 2011: “I personally, on behalf of myself, deeply regret that Jeffrey Epstein became involved in any way with me. I abhor peadophilia and any sexual abuse of children and know that this was a gigantic error of judgment on my behalf. I am just so contrite I cannot say.”
In 2019, it was reported that Epstein threatened to sue Ferguson over these comments. But the email sent him a few weeks afterwards read, “I know you feel hellaciously let down by me from what you were either told or read, and I must humbly apologise to you and your heart for that.”
This comes after reports that Prince Andrew is “seething” over claims that Ferguson pursued golfer Tiger Woods, telling friends she found him “gorgeous” and going out of her way to meet him. The allegations appear in the biography Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, the latest book from royal biographer Andrew Lownie.
In the book, Lownie describes Ferguson as having a list of men she wanted to date after her separation from Prince Andrew. The list included Woods, John F Kennedy Jr., Kevin Costner, and George Clooney, among others.
“Andrew has always tried to laugh off Sarah’s antics, but mention of Tiger has cut particularly deeply,” a source close to the duke said. “The idea that she was once gagging to bed Tiger has left him totally humiliated. He feels these stories make both of them look ridiculous, and he’s furious it’s made headlines.”
These allegations are nowhere near as bad as the close association both Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson kept with Jeffrey Epstein, however. So perhaps it would be best for the two to focus on that.
