{"id":436186,"date":"2026-02-20T13:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/436186\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:49:10","slug":"desperate-sarah-ferguson-eyes-up-150k-speaking-jobs-amid-andrew-chaos-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/436186\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Desperate’ Sarah Ferguson eyes up \u00a3150k speaking jobs amid Andrew chaos | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A “desperate” Sarah Ferguson had reportedly been considering undertaking well-paid dinner appearances following her gargantuan fall from grace. The latest release of the Epstein files<\/a> suggested Sarah has been through money struggles for years, and confided in the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, after he had been convicted of child sex offences in 2008.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Emails suggested the former prince’s ex-wife<\/a> asked him how to deal with a \u00a36million debt pile while he was still in jail for soliciting prostitution from a minor. She then appeared to ask Epstein \u00a320,000 “urgently” to pay rent in 2009.<\/p>\n

“The landlord has threatened to go to the newspapers if I don’t pay. Any brainwaves?” the email said.<\/p>\n

An email from the paedophile<\/a> claimed that he had helped her financially for 15 years, while she had also appeared to ask for a role as his house assistant in May 2010.<\/p>\n

“I am the most capable and desperately need the money… Please Jeffrey think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week, after her ex-husband was arrested on his 66th birthday, Alison Boshoff for the Daily Mail<\/a> reported that Fergie had been discussing sky-high dinner appearance deals to solve her finances.<\/p>\n

Exchanges between Ferguson<\/a> and an agent this month appeared to show she hoped to pocket \u00a3150,000 plus expenses for a talk later this year, which would have included two first\u2013class flights.<\/p>\n

The agency Yrds said it had not represented Fergie since last summer, but after initially denying knowledge of a deal, it conceded that it had “passed on” an offer to her.<\/p>\n

The former Duchess of York has been keeping a low profile after the latest files were released by the US Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the revelations, six of Fergie’s companies are in the process of being closed, according to documents filed with Companies House.<\/p>\n

It is unclear where she is at present, but reports suggested she spent time with friends in the French Alps before moving on to the UAE.<\/p>\n

Inclusion in the Epstein files does not indicate any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A “desperate” Sarah Ferguson had reportedly been considering undertaking well-paid dinner appearances following her gargantuan fall from grace.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2195,96,25831,59,3365,104877,2747,24556,108392,159056,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-436186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-employment","tag-entertainment","tag-financial-struggles","tag-gb","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-royal-latest-news","tag-royal-news","tag-sarah-ferguson","tag-sarah-ferguson-latest-news","tag-speaking-engagements","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}