For years, there has been talk about Sarah Ferguson’s complicated relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, but what came to light this week has left many people speechless.
It turns out that the Duchess of York wrote an email in which she practically apologized to him, and it was not just a diplomatic gesture.
“I know you feel terribly let down by me from what you were either told or read, and I must humbly apologize to you and your heart for that,” Sarah wrote.
According to her own representative, the note was nothing more than a desperate attempt to protect herself and her daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie.
The reason is unsettling. Before that email, Epstein reportedly called Ferguson in a tone so disturbing that her spokesperson compared him to Hannibal Lecter.
In that call, the millionaire reportedly warned her that he would destroy the York family, using cold and calculated words that sounded more like a veiled threat than an outburst.
“He wasn’t shouting. He had a voice like Hannibal Lecter’s.” It was very cold and calm, yet truly menacing and nasty.
“He said he would destroy me,” the spokesman recalled, emphasizing how strange it was that someone would want to be friends with Epstein.
The scandal of the leaked emails, of course, soon took its toll. Several charities severed ties with Sarah Ferguson when an email was leaked in which she apologized to Epstein for publicly criticizing him.
The paradox is clear: in public, she criticized him, yet in private, she wrote to him as if she still owed him loyalty. In that message, she even referred to him as a “steadfast, generous, and supreme friend” and described a $20,000 loan as a mistake in judgment.
All of this highlights once again the extent to which Epstein used pressure and fear to maintain his connections.
Ferguson claims she did it for survival, but the image that remains is of someone trapped in a toxic web of power and manipulation.