‘Baby boy’: Fergie email claims Epstein had a secret child

Jeffrey Epstein had a secret child, according to a message sent to him by Sarah Ferguson.

The former Duchess of York congratulated the sex offender on the birth of a “baby boy” after he was released from jail in 2011.

She offered Epstein her “love, friendship and congratulations” after hearing the news from “The Duke” – probably referring to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, her ex-husband.

It has never been established if Epstein had any children, despite allegedly having sexual relations with hundreds of women.

Karyna Shuliak, the financier’s last-known girlfriend, was set to inherit most of his fortune, properties and island in a will changed shortly before his death in prison in 2019.

Ferguson appeared to send a second message complaining that Epstein had “disappeared” after using her “to get to Andrew”.

The correspondence from Ferguson is among the 3 million documents in the Epstein files that were released by the US Department of Justice on Friday, along with 180,000 images and 2000 videos.

The former Duchess featured several times in the documents, with the latest tranche revealing that she offered Epstein and his friends VIP tours of Buckingham Palace.

The newly released emails showed that Ferguson contacted Epstein after he was released from prison for child sex offences in 2009.

The files also showed that Mountbatten-Windsor’s relationship with Epstein continued until at least 2017, seven years after the disgraced former royal claimed to have cut off contact.

Epstein never confessed to having any children while he was alive, but more than 100 people have claimed to be his offspring – with many making a claim to his fortune.

In 2020, Harvey Morse, the founder of Morse Genealogical Services, a DNA firm, said Epstein may have grandchildren because he was “sexually promiscuous for so long”.

“There is a reasonable chance he may have fathered a child,” he said. “He could even be a grandfather.”

Morse said that 130 people approached his company after it set up a website named “epsteinheirs”, although more than a quarter of the claims were dismissed almost immediately.

In a separate file, released on Friday, a woman claimed to have “created” a daughter with Epstein in a “beautiful fertility ritual”. The validity of the claim is not known, and the justice department has warned that the files contain a number of “untrue and sensationalist” accusations.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act ordered the US Department of Justice to release all files pertaining to Epstein by December 19, but authorities have gone well over the deadline.

Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his remaining royal titles by the King last year, was pictured kneeling over an unidentified woman in the latest documents.

The files also included offers made by Epstein to introduce Mountbatten-Windsor to a “beautiful” 26-year-old Russian woman named Irina.

Telegraph, London

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