The Duchess of York met with Jeffrey Epstein in 2010 even though he was still under house arrest for having sex with underage girls, files obtained by DailyMail.com indicate.
The pedophile’s private calendars from March that year reveal that he would make room in his schedule for Sarah Ferguson, the ex-wife of Prince Andrew.
At the time Epstein still had five months of house arrest left for admitting to soliciting a minor for prostitution, an offense for which he served a 13-month jail sentence and was labeled a registered sex offender.
Epstein told his assistant: ‘Duchess anytime.’
Jeffrey Epstein’s private calendars and emails reveal he met with Sarah Ferguson in 2010 several times at his New York mansion
Images show smiling Sarah Ferguson with Epstein’s housekeeper and driver at Epstein’s New York mansion
Prince Andrew is pictured in New York’s Central Park with Epstein in December 2010
In a scheduling entry for March 3, 2010, Epstein’s assistant wrote: ‘Still need to try and schedule the Duchess for Tues or Wed (I have emailed her assistant, Amanda, RE a meeting’
Epstein told his assistant in an email, ‘Duchess anytime,’ referring to Fergie
Photos posted by Epstein’s driver and housekeeper in February and March 2010 show Fergie and Andrew visiting the financier’s New York mansion.
Fergie’s links to Epstein have come under the spotlight once again after DailyMail.com’s investigation into Epstein’s files.
The hundreds of pages in the files give an unprecedented insight into the late pedophile’s extraordinary network of power and influence.
Presidents, prime ministers, royalty and famous names previously not linked to Epstein are also featured in the emails and calendar entries.
Before his suicide in jail in August 2019, Epstein revealed he had ‘potentially damaging’ dirt on high-powered figures
Fergie’s relationship with Epstein dates back to at least April 1998 when an entry on the flight logs for his private plane has him meeting her at Nassau airport in the Bahamas.
The log mentions that she was traveling with her children, apparently referring to Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, and they would be ‘on the ground’ when Epstein met them.
Fergie had divorced Andrew two years earlier but the two remained close friends, as they are still today.
The Epstein files suggest that the pedophile knew intimate details of the former couple’s finances – and bragged about it while touting himself to JP Morgan.
Epstein dropped Andrew’s name while trying to persuade the bank to let him act as an intermediary for wealthy clients.
On August 31, 2011 in an email to JP Morgan boss Jes Staley and senior banker Mary Erdoes, Epstein said that investors were wary of the bank because it was a ‘quasi US govt arm’.
Epstein wrote: ‘I am also aware JPM has a colorful array of clients so a client relationship is much less problematic than an institutional joint venture’.
Among the wealthy men Epstein reeled off was Prince Andrew. Epstein said: ‘He is now allowed to make money’.
Epstein did not elaborate on what prevented Andrew from making money before, but Fergie’s finances were in a perilous state at the time.
In May 2010 she was caught in a newspaper sting asking for $550,000 for access to Andrew.
Fergie told an undercover newspaper reporter: ‘That opens up everything you would ever wish for. I can open any door you want, and I will for you.’
She later said that she ‘deeply regretted’ making the comments and said her ex-husband had no idea about meeting the undercover journalist.
Pictures posted on Facebook by Jojo and Lyn Fontanilla, Epstein’s housekeeper and driver, on March 5, 2010 showed Andrew visiting Epstein’s New York townhouse
Epstein’s 71st Street townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side sold for an estimated $51 million un 2021. Fergie and Andrew visited the mansion in 2010
Fergie had apparently been driven to such measures because of her $5.5million debts but in July 2011 she said that they had been paid off thanks to the intervention of Andrew.
Under the arrangement, Epstein paid $17,000 to Ferguson’s former PA Johnny O’Sullivan which helped to stabilize her balance sheet.
Epstein’s email to JP Morgan came a month after that announcement, strongly suggesting Andrew had discussed his and Fergie’s financial situation in depth.
In a scheduling entry for March 3, 2010, Epstein’s assistant wrote: ‘Still need to try and schedule the Duchess for Tues or Wed (I have emailed her assistant, Amanda, RE a meeting’.
The ‘Amanda’ appears to be Amanda Thirsk, who worked for Andrew for many years.
Epstein replied: ‘Duchess anytime.’
Pictures posted on Facebook by married couple Jojo and Lyn Fontanilla, Epstein’s housekeeper and driver, on March 5, 2010 – two days after the emails – showed Andrew visiting Epstein’s New York townhouse.
Another image shows smiling Ferguson with JoJo Fontanilla in Manhattan with a shopping bag in her hand, while one from the previous month, posted by Lyn Fontanilla, shows Ferguson at Epstein’s New York mansion.
Epstein appears to have fallen out with Fergie in 2012 after she called him a pedophile in an interview with London newspaper The Evening Standard.
As she distanced herself from Epstein, she said: ‘I abhor pedophilia 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. Whenever I can I will repay the money and will have nothing ever to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again’.
Epstein was said to be incensed about her comments.
Fergie’s publicist at the time, James Henderson, told CNN he got a phone call from Epstein that was ‘so unpleasant that I was left slightly rattled and I saved his number so I’d never have to take a call from him again’.
Epstein victim Virginia Roberts claimed she was forced to have sex with the Duke when she was 17, claims he denied
In 2000, Prince Andrew was on board Epstein’s plane along with Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and others on a flight from New Jersey to Florida, according to flight logs
Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous ‘Lolita Express’ – a private Boeing 727 airliner that carried prominent passengers and allegedly underage girls
A lawyer for Epstein sent the Duchess a letter demanding a retraction but Henderson said he told her to ignore it.
A 2011 report in Vanity Fair claimed that Fergie received ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars’ from Jeffrey Epstein to clear her debts – far more than she previously admitted.
Edward Klein wrote that Fergie’s debts were the ‘major reason’ Andrew spent time with Epstein.
A source told the magazine: ‘Andrew feels responsible for Sarah.… There have been newspaper reports that Sarah got £15,000 ($17,000) from Jeffrey, but I think that Sarah has actually received hundreds of thousands of dollars from him.’
It was also claimed that when the row over the Duchess offering access to Andrew broke, her daughter Beatrice was so humiliated she stayed at home for days.
‘Beatrice was clearly embarrassed when it was revealed that Fergie took money to introduce an undercover reporter to Prince Andrew,’ a source said.
‘A friend went to Royal Lodge to comfort Beatrice, who wouldn’t leave the house because she was so ashamed and didn’t want to have to deal with the press. The friend spent two nights with her while she cried.’
Andrew’s lawyers did not return requests for comment. Ferrgie’s representative would not comment.
