Recently released documents related to the investigation into late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein show royal family member Sarah Ferguson begging the disgraced billionaire for a job.
“But why I don’t understand, don’t you just get me to be your House Assistant,” the former Duchess of York, 66, wrote in an email to Epstein dated on May 16, 2010 — two years after Epstein pled guilty in a Florida state court to charges of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute. (The financier ultimately served 13 months in custody as part of a plea deal. Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges.)
“I am the most capable and desperately need the money,” Ferguson continued in the email, reviewed by Us Weekly. “Please Jeffrey think about it.”
The Department of Justice publicly released more than 3 million new documents of the so-called “Epstein Files” on January 30, in compliance with the recently passed Epstein Files Transparency Act. Another 2010 email written by Ferguson to Epstein also included a crude reference to the royal’s daughter Princess Eugenie. (Us is working to verity the veracity of the documents.)
In the March 21, 2010, exchange, Epstein first wondered whether Ferguson would visit the billionaire at his home in New York City.
“Not sure yet,” Ferguson replied. “Just waiting for Eugenie to come back from a shagging weekend!!” (“Shagging” is a British slang term meaning “to have sex.” At the time of the correspondence, Princess Eugenie was 19 and spending time with her then-boyfriend and future husband Jack Brooksbank, per multiple media reports.)
Another email, dated January 30, 2010, revealed Ferguson also asked the convicted sex offender to “marry me.”
“You are a legend,” Ferguson wrote in the email, reviewed by Us. “I really don’t have the words to describe, my love, gratitude for your generosity and kindness. Xx. I am at your services. Just marry me.”
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Us has reached out to representatives for Ferguson for comment.
Ferguson — who was married to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, for 10 years — later described her friendship with Epstein as a “gigantic error of judgment.” Years later, In October 2025, several U.K. outlets published messages between Ferguson and Epstein in which she apologized for her public comments.
“I know you feel hellaciously let down by me, and I must humbly apologize to you and your heart for that,” Ferguson reportedly wrote Epstein in 2011, after she had publicly distanced herself from the disgraced financier. “I am apologizing to you today for not replying to your email or reaching out to you. I was bedridden with fear. I was paralyzed.”
In response, Ferguson’s spokesperson insisted the royal only sent the conciliatory message to “counter an aggressive threat Epstein had made to sue her for defamation.”
Mountbatten-Windsor, for his part, was stripped of his royal title as the Duke of York and evicted from the Royal Lodge over his connection to Epstein and after the late Virginia Giuffre accused Mountbatten-Windsor and Epstein of raping her when she was a minor.
(Mountbatten-Windsor has denied having any sexual contact with Giuffre. The pair reached a private settlement in 2022 after she sued him for sexual assault. He has never faced criminal charges and, in December 2025, the Metropolitan Police announced it would “take no further action” against the disgraced royal over claims he asked taxpayer-funded security officers to find dirt on Giuffre.)
In his notorious interview with Emily Maitlis, Mountbatten-Windsor admitted he does not regret his relationship with Epstein.
“No, still not, and the reason being is that the people that I met and the opportunities that I was given to learn either by him or because of him were actually very useful,” the former royal said at the time. “He himself not, as it were, as close as you might think, we weren’t that close. So therefore I mean, yes, I would go and stay in his house but that was because of his girlfriend, not because of him.”
If you or someone you know is experiencing child abuse, call or text Child Help Hotline at 1-800-422-4453. If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
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