Sarah Ferguson has addressed her e-mail correspondence with late billionaire intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
An e-mail despatched by Ferguson, 65, to Epstein in 2011 was not too long ago resurfaced by a number of U.Okay. shops. A spokesperson for the Duchess of York claimed in an announcement to the Daily Mail on Sunday, September 21, that the correspondence was “despatched to counter an aggressive risk Epstein had made to sue her for defamation.”
In a separate statement to the BBC, the spokesperson famous, “The duchess spoke of her remorse about her affiliation with Epstein a few years in the past, and as they've at all times been, her first ideas are along with his victims. Like many individuals, she was taken in by his lies. As quickly as she was conscious of the extent of the allegations in opposition to him, she not solely lower off contact however condemned him publicly, to the extent that he then threatened to sue her for defamation for associating him with pedophilia.”
The assertion concluded: “She doesn't resile from something she mentioned then. This e-mail was despatched within the context of recommendation the Duchess was given to attempt to assuage Epstein and his threats.”
Ferguson reportedly referred to Epstein as a “supreme buddy” within the e-mail and denied referring to him as “the P phrase” (pedophile) in a March 2011 interview — which was printed weeks earlier than her e-mail was despatched.
“I do know you're feeling hellaciously let down by me, and I have to humbly apologize to you and your coronary heart for that,” Ferguson's e-mail to Epstein reportedly learn. “I'm apologizing to you as we speak for not replying to your e-mail or reaching out to you. I used to be bedridden with worry. I used to be paralyzed.”
The message continued, “I used to be suggested in no unsure phrases, to don't have anything to do with you and to not converse or e-mail you.”
Ferguson claimed that she didn't wish to “trigger extra issues” for her ex-husband, Prince Andrew. (The Duke of York was stripped of his royal title following his alleged involvement with Epstein. He was sued by the late Virginia Giuffre for sexual abuse in 2021. They settled the next 12 months, and he has continued to disclaim her allegations.)
In her March 2011 interview, Ferguson acknowledged that having any connection to Epstein was a “gigantic error of judgment” on her half.
“I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of youngsters,” she continued on the time. “I can't state extra strongly that I do know a horrible, horrible error of judgement was made, my having something to do with Jeffrey Epstein. What he did was unsuitable and for which he was rightly jailed.”
Epstein was arrested on federal prices in 2019 for the intercourse trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. He died by suicide at age 66 whereas being held on the Metropolitan Correctional Heart in New York.
