So it transpires Fergie lusted after convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. This is the startling narrative child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell unspooled in a federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida.
'She [the Duchess of York] had a thing for him... and I thought that Sarah was trying to put the moves on Jeffrey,' Maxwell confides to US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Later, emphasising her point in her clipped English accent, she adds almost suggestively: 'She liked Mr Epstein.'
Digesting this new development, the lawman pauses for a moment then inquires: 'How do you know?' Maxwell shoots back, triumphantly: 'Female intuition.'
This wasn't the only bombshell dropped by the disgraced socialite – and Epstein's former girlfriend – during her two-day meeting with Blanche. The audio tapes of the interview and a 360-page transcript were released by the US Justice Department on Friday.
