Sarah Ferguson visited Jeffrey Epstein with her two young daughters just five days after the disgraced financier was released from prison for child sex crimes, according to newly released emails.
The former Duchess of York is said to have taken Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie to see the paedophile in July 2009, less than a week after he was freed from a Florida jail, where he had served 12 months for soliciting a child for prostitution and was placed under house arrest.
At the time of the visit, Beatrice and Eugenie would have been aged 20 and 19 respectively.
Epstein confirmed the meeting in an email sent to his then partner Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, on July 28 2009.
He wrote: ‘ferg and the two girls come [sic] yesterday’.
The day before, Ms Ferguson herself emailed Epstein to arrange the visit, writing: ‘What address shall we come to. It will be myself, Beatrice and Eugenie. Are we having lunch?’
Emails reportedly show the group met at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion, where the paedophile served vegetable lasagne prepared by a Parisian chef.
Epstein later referred to the visit in correspondence released in October. Writing to British lawyer Paul Tweed on April 7, 2011, he complained about Ms Ferguson’s failure to defend him publicly following his conviction.
Sarah Ferguson sent a large number of emails to Epstein, many of them fawning and obsequious
The former Duke and Duchess of York’s daughters (pictured together in December) are named in their mother’s emails to the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The sisters are said to be ‘aghast’
Fergie is pictured in the Epstein files with a mystery woman in an image released at Christmas
He said: ‘She was the first to celebrate my release with her two daughters in tow. She visited me with [a] policeman sitting at my front desk. She has asked for help with her charities,’ according to the Mail on Sunday.
The emails are among more than three million documents released by the US Justice Department on Friday.
Other messages appear to show Epstein attempting to arrange meetings between Beatrice and Eugenie and his goddaughter Celina Dubin – the daughter of billionaire hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin and his wife Eva.
On June 22, 2009, while Epstein was still in prison but allowed out during the day to work, he emailed Ms Ferguson and Mrs Dubin, writing: ‘My goddaughter will be in London from July 8-9, eva will be with her….lets [sic] come up with a fun idea’.
Ms Ferguson and her former husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor were friends with Epstein for more than a decade.
In a separate email sent in 2010, she told the late financier: ‘Just marry me’. She also described him as a ‘legend’ and said he was the ‘brother I have always wished for’.
The tranche of emails has reportedly left Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie deeply distressed.
Sources close to the sisters say they are ‘aghast’, ‘appalled’ and ’embarrassed’ by their mother’s communications with Epstein following his conviction for child sex crimes.
A source close to the sisters told the Daily Mail: ‘They are aghast at what they have read. They are mortified by the emails their mother has sent to Epstein. It is so embarrassing for them.’
Fergie also congratulated him on having ‘had a baby boy’, suggesting he had a secret son
She accused him of only being friends with her to get close to her ex-husband, too
A defiant Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor went riding near his Royal Lodge home on Monday morning as his daughters said they were embarrassed their parents’ relationship with Epstein
They added: ‘We don’t believe the girls [Beatrice and Eugenie] were told much about what has just emerged [in the latest Epstein files release], and they will simply be aghast at just how close their parents were to this appalling man.’
The siblings are also said to be ‘appalled’ by new photographs showing their father Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor crouching over a mystery woman lying on the floor.
Ms Ferguson’s emails to Epstein have previously revealed her fawning tone towards the convicted sex offender, who famously helped pay off some of her debts.
Other messages referenced Eugenie’s sex life and confirmed that Ms Ferguson had taken her daughters to lunch with Epstein while they were still teenagers.
The Mail has also today uncovered an email from Ms Ferguson that appears to suggest Epstein had a secret child. In another message, she accused him of abandoning her in 2011 and said it was ‘crystal clear’ he was only her friend in order to get close to her former husband.
Separately, security sources told the Mail on Sunday that Epstein was running ‘the world’s largest honeytrap operation’ on behalf of the KGB.
The revelations emerged as a defiant Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was seen riding near his Royal Lodge home on Monday morning, amid reports he had been due to move out last week.
