Sarah Ferguson Begs for Forgiveness for Pedophile Payout Scandal

By Rob Shuter Posted Mar 8th 2011 06:02PM

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, who just admitted to taking money from convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is once again begging forgiveness from her friends, family and her boss, Oprah Winfrey.

"Sarah had no idea the man who loaned her $24,000 had been convicted of having sex" with a 13-year-old girl, a friend of Sarah's tells me exclusively. "It's typical Sarah, where she does something and worried about the consequences after."

The Epstein mess is a complicated one and involves Sarah's ex-husband, Prince Andrew, who is a friend of the billionaire sex offender. The prince was already under fire for his ties with Epstein, who decided to help the Duchess get out of a financial jam. Via the London Evening Standard:

The money was paid to Sarah's former assistant, Johnny O'Sullivan, who was claiming £78,000 in unpaid wages and other bills. Epstein stepped in after discussing the affair with Andrew's office and dealt directly with Mr O'Sullivan, who accepted £15,000 which then allowed a wider restructuring of Sarah's £5 million debts to take place.

Sarah issued a lengthy apology for accepting the money, which actually helped her finally get out of debt.

"I personally, on behalf of myself, deeply regret that Jeffrey Epstein became involved in any way with me. I abhor pedophilia and any sexual abuse of children and know this is a gigantic error of judgment on my behalf," she said in a statement. "Once again my errors have compounded and rebounded and also inadvertently impacted on the man I admire most in the world, the duke. He has supported me and come to my rescue again and again and there is absolutely nothing that I would not do for him."

Sarah's crushing debt played a huge part in her last scandal, when last year she was caught trying to sell media access to her ex. She appeared to have moved on from that, but friends worry her apology isn't going to work this time, now that there's a sex offender involved.

"Everyone is sick of her," a friend of Sarah's tells me. "Her ex-husband and his family want nothing more to do with her. They have given her so many chances but will not anymore. Even her new boss Oprah hasn't returned her calls this time. It seems even she has had enough of Sarah."

She better hope Oprah isn't done with her. 'Finding Sarah,' the duchess's reality show on Winfrey's OWN network, doesn't air until this summer.

Tags: jeffrey epstein, Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson

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Tuesday 08 March

By bill

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OMG she is reduced to public pandering. Yikes, how far can she fall? At some point one would think the issue of pride might creep into her psyche. Nah, keep on pandering Dutchie.

By kkn55

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It seems she will do anything for her former husband except behave like a responsible adult. She needs professional help.

By Anne

The royals hated Diana when she spoke out about Charles, They hated Sarah for getting her toes sucked. I think she is lovely although is rather bad at picking people to hang with or get help from. That does not make her bad.

By Lessa

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The DUKE did business with this guy and that's OK, but SHE does business with him and that's Bad?? So the lesson here is Never trust your ex-husband, even though he is a member of the royal family, even though he's the father of your children, even though everyone else loves him to bits. Got it! Thanks!

By moommom

Sarah..... time for you to move on and get a real life.
You were not happy when you were married so quit leeching
from the family.

By Holly

Oprah shouldn't have a problem with Sarah Ferguson's unknowingly accepting money from a pedophile since it was Oprah who had a sexual predator at her African school for girls that sexually and physically abused the students.

By Adam

Hey Fergie, when are you putting out a new album? I enjoyed your Super Bowl performance with the Black Eyed Peas but I really like your solo stuff, and... uh, what? This isn't THAT Fergie? Nevermind.

By goldenbearone

would she be so generous if her kids were diddled?

By judy warren

she desirves another chance

By Jennie Jean

And she wonders why she didn't get invited to William and Kate's wedding.......

Wednesday 09 March

By joe

Sounds like an honest mistake, she didn't know the guy was a creep. She needed a loan and thats what she got. It was not her that molested the little girl. Give her a break.

By doneldathomas

She needs to get a JOB!!!

By karin

The whole 'royal thing' is so over.
The world does not care about them anymore.
& I quote 'the very rich have the morals of cats'
End the Monarchy!!! Save us from the hypocrasy!!!!

Thursday 17 March

By coachoutletonline-stores

WONDERFUL Post.thanks for share..extra wait .. ?There are certainly a number of details like that to take into consideration. That could be a nice point to bring up. I supply the ideas above as general inspiration but clearly there are questions like the one you deliver up where crucial factor will likely be working in trustworthy good faith. I don?t know if greatest practices have emerged around issues like that, however I am sure that your job is clearly recognized as a good game. Each boys and girls feel the influence of only a moment pleasure, for the rest of their lives.

Sunday 26 June

By Wendy McQuarrie

How could she possibly have that much debt? Leaving the loan etc aside, what sort of stupid, greedy woman is she that she is prepared to spend money like that? In reality she is stealing off other people.
Her current problem is through ignorance and, as we know, her ex-husband seems to be smelling of roses despite his involvement with the man. However she clearly has no pride if she is happy to take money from others to help pay her debts.
How dare she fail to pay her employees, to me, that makes her unacceptable.

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