Convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, reportedly bailed Sarah Ferguson out of financial difficulties, as suggested in the  latest drop of Epstein files. Fergie’s love of spending in the past not only led to her being in excessive debt for years, but also to seemingly unnecessary purchases, including coat hangers.

Sarah has previously admitted she borrowed £15,000 from Epstein, but newly-surfaced emails suggest she also asked for further sums – from one request for $50,000 (£37,240) to another $100,000 (£78,475) to help with “small bills”.

In 2009, after the crash of a business venture, Sarah appears to write to Epstein: “I urgently need 20,000 pounds ($27,521) for rent today. The landlord has threatened to go to the newspapers if I don’t pay. Any brainwaves?”

Lownie also claims Fergie “would regularly miss flights that were not refundable”, totting up thousands of pounds in unnecessary costs.

As reported in the Mirror, one source also revealed that Fergie “thought nothing of arriving at an airport with 25 cases and paying between £800 and £4,000 in excess baggage. At least five of those cases were packed with toiletries and make-up. Another would be used solely for clothes hangers.”

Meanwhile, “personal trainers, hairdressers and pilates instructors were paid hundreds of pounds an hour to wait for her to emerge for the day in the late afternoon. Her butler had to get in at 4.30am to put watercress on ice”.

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It is reported that Fergie is lying low while she “gets her head together”, having recently spent a few days with friends in the French Alps before moving on to the United Arab Emirates.

She has also been spending time with her youngest daughter, Princess Eugenie, 35, who has been in the region for work, attending an art fair in Doha, Qatar, in her role as a director at art dealer Hauser and Wirth.