‘She needs to fix it’: Jeffrey Epstein’s plot to win redemption via Sarah Ferguson

Newly released files reveal how the paedophile tried to leverage his relationship with the former Duchess of York

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When Sarah Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, was confronted in 2011 about her closeness to the paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein she could not have been more fulsome in her regret.

I personally, on behalf of myself, deeply regret that Jeffrey Epstein became involved in any way with me," she said. I abhor paedophilia 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."