Sarah Ferguson told Jeffrey Epstein she was waiting for daughter Beatrice ‘to come back from a s****ing weekend’
Shameless Sarah Ferguson told convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein that she was waiting for her youngest daughter to ‘get back from a shitty weekend’.
The extraordinary exchange is part of a tranche of three million documents released Friday as part of the Epstein Files.
In the email sent on March 21, 2010 – two days before Eugenie’s 20th birthday – Epstein asked the then-Duchess of York, “NY?” in an apparent reference to her upcoming trip to New York. he asks.
Sarah replies: ‘I’m not sure yet. Just waiting for Eugenie to come back from a shitty weekend!!’
Eugenie met her now-husband Jack Brooksbank during a ski trip in early 2010, which she later described as ‘love at first sight’.
The couple married in 2018 and have two young children.
Earlier this month, the Mail on Sunday revealed that Eugenie had cut off all contact with her disgraced father in the wake of the Epstein scandal and refused to visit him at Christmas.
Ferguson, who was reportedly left ‘homeless’ after being kicked out of the Royal Lodge where she lived with ex-husband Andrew, has repeatedly apologized for her friendship with Epstein, but new documents show she helped pay off a debt of nearly $60,000 the pedophile owed to a former assistant.
Sarah Ferguson and Ghislane Maxwell attend the Opening of Asprey Flagship Store on 5th Avenue in New York City on December 8, 2003
It’s dated April 4, 2009 and reads: ‘I love redhead Sarah!’ In a signed email, he tells Epstein: ‘I’ll be landing in Palm Beach in a few hours. Any chance of a quick cup of tea during a short stay?’
She goes on to talk about ‘Mother’s Army’, a website that Epstein bought for herself, and says: ‘My dear, wonderful and special friend Jeffrey. ‘You’re a legend and I’m so proud of you.’
The pedophile was still under house arrest when the email was sent.
In July 2009, financier Glenn Dubin, one of Epstein’s close friends, wrote to him saying: ‘Fergie said she would organize tea at the Buckingham Palace apartments or Windsor Castle…said you should call her directly.’
In another conversation in August 2009, Sarah thanked the billionaire ‘for being the brother I always wished for’.
In 2010, Epstein was invited to Andrew’s 50th birthday party with an email that read: ‘Dear Jeffrey, Beatrice, Eugenie and I are delighted to invite you to celebrate 50 years of Pope/Andrew.’
The reception for drinks and dinner at St. James’s Palace in London continues: ‘There will be suits and cocktail dresses, you know me, mysterious mischief, so bring your gifts, your presence and your humour!’
When Andrew’s office gets no response from the billionaire, he politely sends a reminder, to which Epstein responds curtly: ‘I can’t.’
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Princess Eugenie of York (R) and Jack Brooksbank (L) attend the Elephant Parade auction in aid of the Elephant Family at the Royal Hospital Chelsea on June 30, 2010 in London, England
A source said: ‘Epstein was always at loggerheads with Sarah over money. He would borrow it from her and then say something stupid that would occupy the newspapers and infuriate her. She didn’t like him that much, he was more of a useful idiot to her. He offered her a way into Andrew’s good graces and, by default, into the good graces of the Royal family.’
By July 2010, an unnamed friend of Epstein’s said he would be in London and asked ‘any chance of your girls saying hello?’ They seem to have made amends by saying. To which Sarah replies: ‘Beatrice is in London with her father. Eugie’s away with a cool boyfriend.’
But in March 2011, Epstein was “furious” after Sarah gave an interview to London’s Evening Standard newspaper, calling him a pedophile. He even considered suing her.
He hired Michael Sitrick, a very powerful New York crisis manager, and wrote: ‘Jeffrey, it is critical that Fergie withdraw. One of your close friends, a member of the royal family, calls you a pedophile.
‘If gentle persuasion doesn’t work, my view is that we need to escalate enough to send him a draft defamation suit. As I said yesterday, this will be an important turning point and will be on the agenda everywhere.
‘This is about your name and reputation. You can’t really worry about him, I think you should worry about yourself. He has absolutely no interest in you or your reputation.’
Just weeks after telling the Standard she would “never have a relationship with Epstein again”, Sarah wrote him a disparaging letter in April 2011, in which she described him as a “loyal, generous and sublime friend”.
He said: ‘I know you are sorely disappointed in me. And for that, I must humbly apologize to you and your heart. ‘You have always been a loyal, generous and great friend to me and my family.’
A spokesman for the former duchess said she was appalled by Epstein’s threats to sue, saying: ‘Like so many people, she was caught up in his lies.
‘As soon as he became aware of the extent of the allegations against him, he not only ceased communication but publicly condemned her to the point of threatening to sue her for libel for associating him with pedophilia.’
The former duchess has been contacted for comment.
