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FERGIE FALLOUT
New Zealand Woman's Weekly
|October 6, 2025
A grovelling email the duchess sent to Epstein in prison has surfaced
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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.
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.”
This story is from the October 6, 2025 edition of New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
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