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Fergie Took £2m From Epstein, Andrew Lownie Alleges in Exclusive Interview

It always seemed highly improbable Fergie only got fifteen thousand out of her “supreme friend” Jeffrey Epstein, didn’t it?

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Tom Sykes
Sep 22, 2025
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Sarah Ferguson has only ever admitted to accepting a paltry £15,000 from Jeffrey Epstein. This paltry sum rather begs the question: why did she send him a groveling email praising him as a “generous and supreme friend to me and my family.”

Fifteen grand hardly seems to warrant risking everything to tell the world’s most notorious sex criminal that he has a right to feel “hellaciously let down” by you, as the stunning emails published by two newspapers this weekend showed.

And does a measly few thousand in pocket change explain why you would write: “How can I thank you enough? You are a friend indeed, and I will one day give it back to you. But I can not have the words to thank you now.”

You know what does make sense of such effusion?

Two million.

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