By Molly Claire Goddard
1:11pm PST, Mar 2, 2026
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According to
Andrew Lownie's book
Entitled: The Rise And Fall of The House of York, Sarah Ferguson may have borrowed up to $2.5 million from Jeffrey Epstein. "A mutual friend of
Andrew [
Mountbatten-Windsor] and Epstein has claimed, 'I think that Sarah has actually received hundreds of thousands of dollars' from Epstein'. Ferguson denies this," he wrote in the tell-all via
Daily Express.
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Andrew Lownie claimed Sarah Ferguson spent "£25,000 ($31,500) on frocks, shoes and handbags by Danish designer Isabell Kristensen" in one week. "It was said she spent £14,000 ($17,500) in one month with a particular London wine merchant," he wrote.
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Sarah Ferguson told the
London Evening Standard in 2011 that she'd only taken $19,000 from Jeffrey Epstein and called it a "terrible, terrible error of judgment."
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Shortly after Sarah Ferguson's public statement against Jeffrey Epstein, she apologized to him in an email, calling him a "steadfast, generous and supreme friend" in her life. "I know you feel hellaciously let down by me. And I must humbly apologize to you and your heart for that. You have always been a steadfast, generous and supreme friend to me and my family," she wrote via
People.
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As Sarah Ferguson's drama continues, royal expert
Jennie Bond believes her lack of financial responsibility will come back to haunt her. "I've always thought her downfall was her hopeless grasp of money, combined with her desire to have more and more of it," she told
Daily Express. "She allowed her debts to spiral on a level few of us would understand."
