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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Geraldine McKelvie

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

Sarah Ferguson
Emails show that Epstein and his publicist detailed a plan to persuade Ferguson to release a statement saying he was ‘not a pedo’. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

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.”

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