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Sarah Ferguson repeatedly begged Jeffrey Epstein to employ her as his house assistant because she 'desperately' needed the money, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Humiliating emails buried in the Epstein Files show that the then Duchess of York pleaded with the financier on multiple occasions asking for a job – despite the fact he was still under house arrest in Florida following his conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
In one email, sent in May 2010, Ms Ferguson said: 'But why I don't understand, don't you just get me to be your House Assistant. I am the most capable and desperately need the money. Please Jeffrey think about it.'
A source said Ms Ferguson's 'pleading' emails annoyed Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell – now serving 20 years on child sex trafficking charges – who looked after his properties in New York, Paris and Palm Beach, plus his Caribbean island and ranch in New Mexico.
The source said: 'Ghislaine was fully aware of Sarah's emails to Jeffrey because Jeffrey told her. It annoyed the hell out of her. She never had much respect for Sarah. At one point Sarah was begging Jeffrey to marry her. It was a bit desperate and pathetic.'
Emails unearthed by the MoS reveal that, on the day Ms Ferguson asked Epstein to give her a job, she pleaded again hours later: 'Employ me for your house assistant.'
Pictured: Sarah Ferguson in the Epstein files with a mystery female
Pictured: A photograph released by the US Justice Department of the disgraced financier
In August that year she emailed him again: 'I am feeling very traumatised and alone. I am wanting to work for you at organising your houses.'
She asked again in September 'when are you going to employ me.... My friendship is steadfast to the end, even after the body is cold... Love you now and always... And I know you do tooo. [sic]'
However the MoS's source said the paedophile 'used [Ferguson] to get to Andrew but was utterly contemptuous about her in private. She always had the begging bowl out. She never had any money. Epstein thought she was pathetic, a bit of a loser.'
Ms Ferguson's spokesman declined to comment, but in 2011 she called her friendship with Epstein an 'error of judgment'.
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