Sarah Ferguson visited Epstein twice as he served prison sentence
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Sarah Ferguson visited Jeffrey Epstein twice in his office for a fake firm he founded while he was in prison for child sex crimes.
The former Duchess of York met the convicted pedophile twice while he was in prison at the Palm Beach office of the fake company he invented to secure dismissal.
He also planned to meet her a third time at the headquarters of the fake firm Florida Science Foundation, but his travel plans fell through at the last minute.
Lord Peter Mandelson also called Epstein from the office and once video-called him from there while he was staying at the financier’s New York mansion. Telegram discovered.
Epstein’s victims have alleged in recent weeks that he abused them in his office at 250 South Australian Boulevard when he was supposed to be in jail at the nearby Palm Beach County Stockade.
The sex offender was given access to a generous work permit program that allowed him to leave his cell for up to 12 hours a day after he was jailed in June 2008 for procuring a minor for prostitution.
Roza, one of Epstein’s estimated 1,200 sexual abuse victims, told Congress in May that he offered her a job at the foundation and harassed her in the office while she was in prison between June 2008 and July 2009.
Ferguson visited Epstein at the facility twice during this period. On April 4, 2009, nine months into Epstein’s sentence, she texted him to ask if she could stop by for “a cup of tea” during his stay in Florida.
She signed the email: “I love Redhead Sarah.!!” Epstein gave him the phone number and address of the office and said he was “ten minutes away.” [the] airport”.
Two days later he told her she looked “great” and read “everything you gave me.”
Ferguson had left behind documents related to her Mom Army initiative, an online network she launched the next year to connect women in need.
Five days later, she responded to Epstein, saying: “My dear amazing and special friend Jeffrey. You are a legend and I am so proud of you. Thank you for taking such good care of me.”
Ferguson planned to visit Epstein again in his office for lunch the next week while en route to Canada from a trip to Grenada, but those plans fell through.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s ex-wife had emailed Epstein three times about the meeting scheduled for April 20, 2009, and her assistant had planned the visit in the financier’s diary.
Epstein was meeting with his sex addiction therapist at the office that day.
“Aaaaghhh… I can’t fly,” Ferguson emailed her the morning of the planned visit. He had previously told Epstein that he was committed to spending an hour of his time “brainstorming your genius ideas.”
Two weeks later, on May 5, 2009, Ferguson called Epstein from England and visited him at his office for a second time on May 13, 2009.
Once his chauffeur picked Ferguson up from the airport, Epstein asked 11 colleagues to help “coordinate” the visit.
Visitor log recording guests at Epstein’s rented office “destroyed by PBSO” [the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office] pursuant to record retention schedules,” according to a 2021 investigation by Florida officials.
That same week, Mandelson called Epstein at his Palm Beach office in London, where the then-business secretary told Epstein that things were “still in political turmoil here” in the wake of the MPs’ expenses scandal.
A month later, Mandelson Skyped with Epstein to the office of the Florida Science Foundation while staying at the disgraced pedophile’s New York home. Four weeks later, Epstein was released from prison.
Epstein’s assistant said he would arrange the call in the tycoon’s version of the “Oval Office for Mr. Mandelson.”
Mandelson, who was stripped of various titles and honors due to his connection to Epstein, has previously insisted that he “saw no evidence of criminal activity” during his relationship with the pedophile.
Ferguson and Epstein continued to discuss the Mother’s Army initiative via email for several months, with Ferguson sending documents to the fake headquarters in June of the same year.
The former Duchess of York had already faced a backlash earlier this year when emails emerged suggesting she had visited Epstein with his two daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, before the pedophile was released from prison and placed under house arrest a month later in July 2009.
“Ferg and the two girls showed up,” Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for selling girls and women to pedophiles.
When Ferguson tried to distance himself from Epstein years later, at a time when his abuse of women and young girls was being scrutinized, the financier joked to an associate that it was a bold move for someone who had visited him while he was in prison for child sex crimes.
Respond to a contact regarding an investigation Telegram Epstein, who described her relationship with then-Prince Andrew in March 2011, told them to mention Ferguson instead.
He described the “absurdity of Fergie’s statements” to another colleague, adding: “There were security guards in my office who let her in while I was on work leave.”
Epstein’s former assistant, Sarah Kellen, also told Congress in early June that she helped arrange meetings with Ferguson “at Jeffrey’s office in Palm Beach and at his home in Palm Beach while he was on business leave.”
Ferguson’s spokesman I told the BBC before: “The Duchess expressed her regret over her relationship with Epstein years ago and, as always, her first thoughts were with his victims.
“Like many people, she was caught up in his lies. As soon as she became aware of the extent of the allegations against him, he not only cut off communication, but also publicly denounced her, so much so that she later threatened to sue him for libel for associating him with pedophilia.”
Lord Mandelson has been approached for comment.
