Epstein's grim joke about Princess Beatrice and Eugenie revealed
The convicted paedophile made his thoughts clear on Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
A joke Jeffrey Epstein made about Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie has recently surfaced in an email from the convicted paedophile. The new message features in the Epstein files, which were released by the US Department of Justice, and sees the sex offender joking about how Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor would "sell his daughters" to see his ex-wife debt-free.
Over the years, Sarah Ferguson is known to have accepted at least £115,000 ($150,000) from Epstein, even after he had been convicted of soliciting sex from girls as young as 14. In the newly released document, the paedophile was sent a joke about the York family and described it as the "best one yet". In the email chain, an unnamed associate of Epstein sent him a newspaper with the headline: "Andrew sold daughters to pay Fergie debts". It remains unclear whether the March 2011 headline was genuine or entirely satirical.
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The associate said of the story: "It caught me off guard I laughed so hard I choked and shot snot out of my nose!" Suggesting that this was not the first joke about Andrew and Sarah that the pair had shared between them, the associate added: "Best one yet!!!"
Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie famously met the paedophile for lunch in Florida with their mother when they were 21 and 19 years old, respectively.
The lunch reportedly took place in July 2009, when Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie were aged just 19 and 20. It also took place just five days after Epstein's release from prison for child sex crimes, according to newly-released email documents. Epstein, who took his own life in 2019, had served 12 months for soliciting a child for prostitution and was placed under house arrest.
The Princesses are mentioned numerous times in the Epstein files along with their parents; however, being mentioned does not indicate wrongdoing.
The latest documents from the US Department of Justice shared that Epstein emailed Ghislaine Maxwell to tell her, "ferg and the two girls come yesterday".
The day before, an email showed Sarah had emailed Epstein herself, writing: "What address shall we come to. It will be myself, Beatrice and Eugenie. Are we having lunch?" Emails then reportedly show that the group met at Epstein's Palm Beach mansion, where he served vegetable lasagne prepared by a Parisian chef.
Just a few months later, in October 2009, Epstein told British lawyer Paul Tweed via email on April 7, 2011, about Sarah's failure to defend him publicly following his conviction.
According to the Mail on Sunday, he said: "She was the first to celebrate my release with her two daughters in tow. She visited me with [a] policeman sitting at my front desk. She has asked for help with her charities".
