Sarah Ferguson met Epstein at his workplace throughout his jail sentence for baby intercourse offence

Sarah Ferguson visited paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in Florida when he was still serving his jail sentence for a child sex offence, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Extraordinary emails buried in the vast Epstein Files expose how Ms Ferguson travelled to Palm Beach in April 2009 to meet with the financier at his office when he was on day release from jail following his conviction for soliciting sex from a 14-year-old girl.

The former Duchess of York appears to have discussed how she could make money at the meeting, which took place while a local police officer monitored Epstein from his front desk as part of his prison release conditions.

Last night Gloria Allred, the lawyer who has represented dozens of the paedophile’s victims, told the MoS that Ms Ferguson is a ‘disgrace’ for visiting Epstein while he was in prison.

She said: ‘The then Duchess of York could not have ignored the local police officer sitting at the front desk of Epstein’s office when she visited him.

‘Why did she appear to go out of her way to visit Epstein as he was serving a sentence for a crime against a child? Did she think that her own personal financial situation was more important than a crime against a child?’

US Congressman Suhas Subramanyam, who sits on the House Oversight Committee which has been investigating Jeffrey Epstein, said: ‘Sarah Ferguson clearly had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, just like her former husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

‘She should tell our committee everything she knows. If she’s done nothing wrong, it will help her to clear her name, and help us get justice for the victims.’

Epstein still had more than three months left of his prison sentence in April 2009 but was controversially allowed to leave the Palm Beach County Jail for up to 12 hours a day, six days a week, to work from his office.

He was supervised by off-duty Sheriff’s deputies.

Despite the fact he had been convicted of two sex offences including one child sex offence, Ms Ferguson still asked the paedophile whether she could see him during a stopover in Palm Beach.

On April 4, she sent him an email saying: ‘Hello Jeffrey. I am landing in Palm Beach in a couple of hours. Is there any chance on my quick layover that I can get to have a quick cup of tea…’

Epstein told her she could visit him and gave her the address of his office in West Palm Beach which he said was ‘ten minutes from the airport’.

Following the meeting, which appears to have mainly been about her business Mothers Army, Epstein emailed her saying ‘you look great’ and telling her ‘I read everything you gave me, too many pictures… not enough substance i.e. numbers’.

He gave her advice on how to get a £10million sponsorship deal and instructed her to get women like Michele Obama involved in the business.

She replied to thank him for his advice, saying: My dear spectacular and special friend Jeffrey. You are a legend, and I am so proud of you… for being such a great friend.’

This was just one week after the visit when he was still in prison.

More emails from that period also suggest she tried to visit him again later in April, which ultimately did not happen.

Then, in May, when he was still in prison, she emailed him: ‘I am coming into Palm Beach to see you on Wednesday I land at 9.30am. Can your brilliant [driver] pick me up, bring me to you, The Great one!! And then take me to Miami!??? Please with roses on top!’

Epstein told his staff to ‘please coordinate’ her request, but it is not clear whether the meeting went ahead.

Later emails also suggest that Ms Ferguson walked past a Sheriff’s deputy to get into Epstein’s office in the April visit as the paedophile needed to be monitored when on day release from prison.

In early 2011, amid heightening press interest in Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s dealings with Epstein, the paedophile told an unidentified contact in an email: ‘If [the Daily Telegraph] call you, feel free to tell them that not Andrew but Fergie was both at the [Palm Beach] house and at the office with the police officer sitting at the front desk.’

In another email, obtained by the MoS, Epstein told his lawyer that Ms Ferguson was in regular contact with him, adding: ‘She visited me with a policeman sitting at my front desk.’

A spokesman for Ms Ferguson declined to comment.

Met officer joined Yorks on house arrest visit

By Daisy Graham-Brown and Lydia Veljanovski

A taxpayer-funded Metropolitan Police officer accompanied Sarah Ferguson to Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida mansion when he was under house arrest for a child sex offence.

Emails unearthed by The Mail on Sunday reveal that a personal protection officer flew from London to Miami at the taxpayers’ expense so that the former Duchess of York could go for lunch with Epstein, just five days after he was released from prison in July 2009.

Details of the trip, including that Ms Ferguson brought her daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, then aged 20 and 19, were previously reported.

But newly uncovered emails show a taxpayer-funded officer was also present for the five-day round trip from London to Miami, Miami to New York and New York back to London.

His flights were not covered by Epstein, according to emails obtained from the Epstein Files. 

The astonishing findings are likely to ramp up pressure on Scotland Yard and Buckingham Palace to explain why the former Duchess of York was allowed to use taxpayers’ money to visit a convicted sex offender.

Last night the Met declined to comment but the MoS understands that the force is not generally able to comment on security arrangements for protected individuals.