Sarah Ferguson asked Jeffrey Epstein for advice in dealing with her £6m debt pile, while he was still in jail for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
Emails recently released by the Department of Justice appear to show the desperate measures Ferguson considered to rescue her finances, from bailouts funded by two billionaires to selling her jewellery.
Ferguson found the experience "so so demoralising" and said she was "about to freak with exhaustion", the emails suggest. "Death is easier than this," she appears to have said.
Ferguson did not reply to a request for comment.
Ferguson was still Duchess of York in 2009, but divorced from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. A lucrative deal to promote Weight Watchers had just come to an end.
