Does Jeffrey Epstein have a secret son? Sarah Ferguson congratulated paedophile on birth of baby boy, newly released emails reveal
Sarah Ferguson congratulated Jeffrey Epstein on having a 'baby boy' shortly after he was released from jail for soliciting sex from girls as young as 14, according to newly released emails.
The so-called Epstein files show that the former Duchess of York offered him her 'love, friendship and congratulations' on the birth in a note sent to the paedophile financier in September 2011.
It came as a defiant Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who also featured in the latest document release, went riding near his Royal Lodge home on Monday morning.
The potential existence of Epstein's secret son, who would now be 14 and in high school, was revealed in a sycophantic email to him from his friend Fergie, who suggested she heard the news from her ex-husband, Andrew.
Fergie appears to have used it as an excuse to get back in contact with Epstein, even after his release from prison for child sex offences.
She wrote in the previously unseen email, released in the latest tranche of Epstein files: 'Don't know if you're still on this bbm [BlackBerry Messenger] but have heard from The Duke that you have had a baby boy'.
The email dated September 21, 2011, contains a barbed attack on Epstein from Fergie for apparently cutting off contact with her.
She wrote: 'Even though you never kept in touch, I am still here with love, friendship and congratulations on your baby boy'. It is signed: 'Sarah x'.
Jeffrey Epstein, pictured with Ghislaine Maxwell, may have had a secret son, according to newly released emails
Epstein's friend Sarah Ferguson congratulated him on having 'had a baby boy'
A defiant Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor riding near his Royal Lodge home on Monday morning
It is not known if Epstein responded to her offer of continued friendship.
Sarah’s spokesman previously said she had expressed regret about her association with the late financier.
Unmarried Epstein was never known to have any children, despite sleeping with hundreds of women.
He had no heir, so his last-known girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, was set to inherit most of his fortune, properties and his island in a will changed shortly before his death in a New York prison cell in 2019.
Epstein himself never confessed to having any children in his lifetime.
But more than 100 people are said to have claimed that they may be his offspring and may have had a claim to his fortune.
'Jeffrey Epstein was sexually promiscuous for so long that there is a reasonable chance he may have fathered a child,' the founder of DNA firm Morse Genealogical Services, Harvey Morse, said in 2020, adding: 'He could even be a grandfather.'
His DNA company set up a website called epsteinheirs.com and said 130 people came forward to them.
Although Mr Morse said that at least a quarter were dismissed as unreliable, almost immediately.
The existence of a secret child emerged as new footage showed Epstein describing himself as a 'tier one' sexual predator.
The footage emerged as part of the tranche of files that the US Department of Justice published on Friday, including 180,000 images and 2,000 videos.
Epstein, wearing glasses and a black shirt, is also asked whether he 'is the Devil himself' by the interviewer, who does not appear on screen but he is believed to be Donald Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon.
'No, but I do have a good mirror,' the convicted paedophile responds, before the interviewer hits back: 'It's a serious question. Do you think you're the devil himself?'
Epstein says: 'I don't know. Why would you say that?'
The interviewer begins to explain, saying, 'because you have all the attributes', before Epstein cuts him off: 'No, the devil scares me.'
Bannon, 72, served in the White House role for the first seven months of Trump's first administration.
It is unclear when or where the interview took place, who filmed it, or why Bannon, in particular, was chosen to question Epstein.
Fergie is pictured in the Epstein files with a mystery woman in an image released at Christmas
Then-Prince Andrew towering over a mystery woman on the floor in a photo released by the US Justice Department
'What are you, [a] class 3 sexual predator?' the interviewer asks Epstein.
'Tier 1. I'm the lowest,' the American financier responds.
He is asked whether the money he has earned over his lifetime is 'dirty money', to which Epstein responds: 'No, it's not.'
Pressed on why not, Epstein says: 'Because I earned it.'
Fergie said she heard the news about his son from 'The Duke' - presumably Andrew
'You earned it by advising the worst people in the world, that do enormous, bad things, and just to make more money,' the interviewer says.
'Ethics is always a complicated subject,' Epstein hits back, before talking about the money he claims he donated to help eradicate polio in Pakistan and India.
'Instead of asking me whether that money should be given to these children for vaccines, I think you might want to ask their mothers - who receive the vaccine, who know their child now won't get polio - and ask them if Epstein should have helped these people with their money,' he adds.
'You're a mathematician,' the interviewer responds, before putting forward a hypothetical scenario in which Epstein walks into the clinic and tells the people 'in the most dire straits of poverty and sickness' that the money was coming from a 'criminal'.
'What percentage of people do you estimate would say, "I don’t care; I want the money for my children?" the interview asks.
'I would say everyone says, "I want the money for my children", Epstein responds.
Epstein was running 'the world's largest honeytrap operation' on behalf of the KGB when he procured women for his network of associates, intelligence sources suggested over the weekend.
The release of more than three million new documents relating to the late sex offender gives credence to incendiary claims made by senior security officials: that Epstein was working on behalf of Moscow, and possibly Israel, when he facilitated assignations for some of the world's most powerful men.
The files include 1,056 documents naming Russian President Vladimir Putin and 9,629 referring to Moscow. Epstein even seems to have secured audiences with Putin after his 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
The sources say it could explain why Epstein appeared to enjoy an ultra-wealthy lifestyle out of kilter with his career as a financier, although there is no documentary evidence linking Putin and his spies directly to Epstein's illicit activities.
But the sources also claim that while US security services 'monitored' Epstein's Russian connections for years, their UK equivalents were hesitant due to Epstein's connection to Andrew.
The cache includes an email claiming Bill Gates asked one of Epstein's advisers to provide medicine to treat sexually transmitted diseases due to 'sex with Russian girls' - something he has dismissed as 'completely false'.
It also contains a document confirming The Mail on Sunday's October report that Epstein offered to introduce Andrew to a 'beautiful' 26-year-old Russian woman in August 2010 - two years after Epstein's conviction.
Andrew has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
American intelligence experts believe Epstein was inducted into the world of espionage via business deals with Robert Maxwell, the disgraced media magnate who - like Epstein - died in murky circumstances.
In the newspaper baron's case, his body was found floating in the Atlantic in 1991, having apparently fallen overboard from his yacht.
Epstein and Ghislaine. Intelligence sources believe Epstein was running 'the world's largest honeytrap operation' on behalf of the KGB when he procured women for his network of associates
Russian organised crime could have been blackmailing Epstein, say security sources. That could explain the ease with which Epstein appeared to be able to fly in 'girls' from Russia
A car thought to be transporting Andrew is seen near Royal Lodge in Windsor on Sunday morning
Epstein was found hanged in 2019, but relatives believe he was murdered to silence him.
Maxwell's daughter, Ghislaine, is serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking and other offences linked to her association with Epstein, whom she is said to have met shortly after her father's death.
Security sources say Maxwell was a Russian asset from the 1970s, when he worked to extradite Soviet Jews to Israel, with the involvement of Israeli intelligence service Mossad.
In return, they say, Maxwell laundered Russian money into the West - with the help of Epstein.
They think the financier was introduced to Maxwell and the KGB by an oil tycoon also in the pay of Russian intelligence. Probes into Robert Maxwell's business dealings have uncovered links not only to the KGB and Mossad, but also MI6.
US security officials also believe Epstein had long-standing ties with Russian organised crime, which could have been blackmailing him. That could explain the ease with which Epstein appeared to be able to fly in 'girls' from Russia.
A source said: 'You have Andrew, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and all the rest placed in compromising positions on an island bristling with technology. It's the world's largest honey trap operation.'
