An FBI email shows Sarah Ferguson reached out to Director Kash Patel's office last March to hand over contact details for Lady Victoria Hervey, a former girlfriend of Prince Andrew who has publicly defended him in the Epstein scandal.
The March 6, 2025 email, sent by FBI attaché David Walker to Patel, surfaced in a trove of documents the bureau published under the title "Records regarding the review of the investigative holdings related to Jeffrey Epstein." Bloomberg first reported on the email's contents. In it, Walker relayed Ferguson's outreach in plain terms:
"Director Patel, the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, reached out and wanted to provide contact information for Victoria Harvey [sic]. The duchess was under the impression you requested this contact information."
Walker misspelled Hervey's surname. The email does not indicate whether Patel ever responded or acted on Ferguson's offer, and it remains unclear whether Patel had actually requested Hervey's details, or whether Ferguson was operating on a mistaken assumption.
The 66-year-old former Duchess of York has long been known for leaping to her ex-husband's defense. Andrew, who lost all of his titles last year in the wake of the Epstein revelations, famously pledged he was "willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency" investigating Epstein's crimes. He never followed through. In 2020, U.S. attorney Geoffrey Berman stood on the steps of Epstein's Upper East Side mansion in New York and delivered a blunt verdict.
"It's fair for people to know whether Prince Andrew has followed through with that public commitment."
Berman added that Andrew had provided "zero cooperation." The FBI had repeatedly contacted Andrew's lawyers to follow up on his pledge, the Daily Mail reported. None of it produced results.
Lady Victoria Hervey, 49, is the daughter of the late sixth Marquess of Bristol and a former model who briefly dated Andrew in 1999. She has spent recent years publicly attacking Andrew's accusers and casting doubt on the evidence against him. In a February appearance on LBC radio, Hervey claimed that Epstein and Virginia Giuffre, the late trafficking victim who appeared in the now-infamous photo with Andrew, had conspired together.
"I still believe Jeffrey and Virginia worked together on this."
Hervey went further, claiming they "worked together on setting up Andrew with the fake photo." That assertion stands against the weight of available evidence. Even Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted child sex trafficker still serving time in federal prison, has acknowledged the photo is genuine.
Hervey has also positioned herself close to the Trump administration. She posted a photo of herself with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in January 2025 and separately shared a picture with Patel on social media. In another LBC appearance earlier this year, she offered a striking comment about the Epstein files themselves:
"To be honest, if you are not in those files, it would be an insult because it would just mean you were a bit of a loser."
After Giuffre died by suicide last April at age 41, Hervey posted on social media: "when lies catch up to you there's no way out." The remark drew attention for its timing and tone, directed at a woman who had died.
Ferguson's effort to connect Hervey with the FBI director cannot be separated from her own long, uncomfortable history with Jeffrey Epstein. Emails released as part of the Epstein files show Ferguson maintained a close, even eager relationship with the convicted sex offender well after his 2009 release from prison, where he had served 13 months of an 18-month sentence for child sex offenses.
Five days after Epstein walked out of prison on July 22, 2009, Ferguson brought her daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, to visit him. The emails from that period and the months that followed paint a picture of financial desperation and personal attachment. In August 2010, Ferguson wrote to Epstein:
"I am feeling very traumatised and alone. I am wanting to work for you at organising your houses."
A month later, in September 2010, she emailed again: "when are you going to employ me." That same day, she sent a follow-up: "phew.. you still love me."
In an earlier 2009 email, Ferguson appeared to offer Epstein a romantic introduction to another woman, writing: "You can marry her too. She is single and a great body." And in 2010, she wrote admiringly of Andrew in a message to Epstein: "I do know that my handsome Prince is a saint.. And you worship him, I do too. But then I did marry him. And still love him."
Ferguson has since stopped using her royal title in the wake of the Epstein revelations. But the March 2025 email to Patel suggests she has not stopped trying to manage the fallout, this time by connecting the FBI director with a woman who has devoted considerable public energy to discrediting Andrew's accusers and questioning the evidence against him.
The Walker email raises more questions than it answers. Did Patel actually request Hervey's contact information, or did Ferguson act on a false premise? How did Ferguson make contact with the FBI in the first place? Did Patel or anyone in his office follow up? The published documents do not say.
What the record does show is a pattern. Andrew pledged cooperation with law enforcement and delivered none. Ferguson maintained a fawning relationship with a convicted child sex offender, brought her children to see him days after his release, and years later reached out to the FBI director's office, not to offer evidence or testimony, but to pass along the phone number of a woman who has publicly dismissed Andrew's accusers and questioned whether the key photograph against him is even real.
The Epstein investigation has always been a story about who got protected and who got sacrificed. The victims were trafficked. The powerful were shielded. And years later, the same circles are still working the phones.
