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Duchess and daughters ‘visited Epstein days after prison release’

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  • Newly released documents suggest that Sarah Ferguson, the then-Duchess of York, visited Jeffrey Epstein with her daughters, Princess Beatrice and Eugenie, in July 2009, just five days after his release from prison for child sex crimes.
  • In an email sent to his partner Ghislaine Maxwell on 28 July 2009, the paedophile financier wrote: “ferg and the two girls come [sic] yesterday”.
  • An email by “Sarah” the day before had asked: “What address shall we come to. It will be myself, Beatrice and Eugenie. Are we having lunch?”
  • The alleged visit would have taken place in the summer of 2009 when Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie were aged between 20 and 19.
  • The date is less than a week after Epstein was released from jail after serving time for soliciting a child for prostitution and placed on house arrest.
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