Six of Sarah Ferguson’s businesses are being wound down in the wake of the latest release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, Companies House documents show.
The former Duchess of York, 64, is listed as director of all six firms, which are due to be dissolved within days unless legal objections are raised.
The companies include S Phoenix Events, Fergie’s Farm, La Luna Investments, Solamoon Ltd, Philanthrapreneur Ltd and Planet Partners Productions Ltd.
None has an obvious public profile and there is little sign of significant commercial activity.
S Phoenix Events has also filed an application to strike off, with Ferguson listed as the person who authenticated the submission on the company’s behalf.
She remains an active director of three other businesses registered with Companies House: Ginger and Moss, set up as a lifestyle brand selling tea, jewellery and homeware; Coat, described as a motion picture production company; and Librasol, classified under ‘artistic creation’.
All the firms being dissolved were set up more than a decade ago.
Most are classed as dormant, with little or no recent activity. Ferguson is the sole remaining director of each.
Six of Sarah Ferguson’s businesses are being wound down in the wake of the latest release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, Companies House documents show
The move comes amid renewed scrutiny following the latest batch of documents linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (pictured)
Late last year, filings show she changed her name across the companies from Sarah Duchess of York to Sarah Margaret Ferguson.
The move comes amid renewed scrutiny following the latest batch of documents linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Emails in the files suggest Ferguson told Epstein she felt desperate about debts reportedly totalling £6million and sought his advice while he was serving a jail sentence for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
The Mail on Sunday revealed days ago that Ferguson repeatedly asked Epstein to employ her as his house assistant because she ‘desperately’ needed the money.
Emails show the then Duchess pleaded for a job despite Epstein being under house arrest in Florida following his conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
In one message sent in May 2010, she wrote: ‘But why I don’t understand, don’t you just get me to be your House Assistant.
‘I am the most capable and desperately need the money. Please Jeffrey think about it.’
Emails in the files suggest Ferguson told Epstein she felt desperate about debts reportedly totalling £6million and sought his advice while he was serving a jail sentence for soliciting prostitution from a minor
A source said the emails irritated Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell – now serving 20 years for child sex trafficking offences – who managed his properties in New York, Paris, Palm Beach, his Caribbean island and ranch in New Mexico.
The source added: ‘Ghislaine was fully aware of Sarah’s emails because Jeffrey told her.
‘It annoyed the hell out of her. She never had much respect for Sarah. At one point Sarah was begging Jeffrey to marry her. It was a bit desperate and pathetic.’
Being named in the Epstein files is not, in itself, evidence of wrongdoing.
A spokesperson for the former duchess has been approached for comment.
