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bitchy | “Emma Stone wore Louis Vuitton to the ‘Bugonia’ premiere in NYC” links
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bitchy | “Emma Stone wore Louis Vuitton to the ‘Bugonia’ premiere in NYC” links

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Emma Stone wore Louis Vuitton to Bugonia’s NYC premiere. It’s fine, but I wish it was lined? Or is that supposed to be the style? [Just Jared]
Question for elder Millennials, Xennials & Gen Xers: what skills do we have which are no longer needed or used anymore? [Pajiba]
Susan Collins sucks. [Jezebel]
Maybe the Golden Globes should end at this point. [LaineyGossip]
Joe Jonas denies the cokehead rumors. [Socialite Life]
Mia Goth loves a sheer. [Go Fug Yourself]
FKA Twigs performed at the Mercury Prize ceremony. [OMG Blog]
Who was the best-dressed at the Academy Museum gala? [RCFA]
Patrick John Flueger is taking a leave of absence from Chicago PD. [Seriously OMG]
The White House says they’re not commuting Sean Combs’ prison sentence this week. But hey, maybe it will happen next week. [Hollywood Life]
Childfree couples talk about what their lives are like. [Buzzfeed]

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bitchy | Ryan Coogler says he’s rebooting the X-Files because his mom is a fan
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bitchy | Ryan Coogler says he’s rebooting the X-Files because his mom is a fan

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In March 2023 Ryan Coogler announced his Chris Carter-approved reboot of The X-Files, which will air on Disney+. I’m SO excited! Details have been scarce so far, but last week, rumors emerged that Danielle Deadwyler was the frontrunner for a starring role. Our last official update, however, came from Coogler’s Sinners promo tour back in May, when he revealed that he’d been in touch with Gillian Anderson and promised that some of the episodes would be “really f-king scary.”

Coogler was asked about the reboot during a Sinners screening last weekend. (It’s back in theaters for Halloween.) He’s still holding his cards close to his chest, but did reveal the reason why he took on The X-Files as his next project: he’s doing it for his mom, who is a huge fan.

Ryan Coogler made his first “Creed” film because his father Ira loved the “Rocky” franchise. Now it’s his mom Joselyn’s turn. Coogler tells me he signed on to reboot “The X-Files” because his mother was a big fan of the Fox sci-fi drama series.

“Like my relationship with ‘Rocky’ with my dad, ‘The X-Files’ is one of those things with my mom,” Coogler told me Friday at the Cinespia “Sinners” screening at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. “My mom means the world to me — she’s actually here tonight — so this is a big one for me. I want to do right by her and the fans. My mom has read some of the stuff I wrote for it. She’s fired up.”

As for rumors that Danielle Deadwyler is being eyed to star in the reboot, Coogler laughed, “I can neither confirm or deny.” The same goes for possible appearances by original “X-Files” stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny.

[From Variety]

Rebooting The X-Files for his mom is a grade-A Mother’s Day/birthday/Christmas present. Like, how do you even top that? I also had no idea that Ryan made the new Rocky movies for his dad! That’s pretty awesome. He did such a good job with both of them, too. This just reaffirms my faith that his X-Files is going to be really good. You don’t want to disappoint your mom!

That said, I was underwhelmed by the “new” seasons that we got in 2016 and 2018. However, they were technically continuations of the original story and Ryan’s project is a straight-up reboot. Oh, I can’t wait! I hope the Danielle Deadwyler rumors are true because I’ve really liked her in everything I’ve seen her in so far. If we’re to presume that she’s playing the Scully-adjacent character, then who would we like to see as the Mulder-based one? I’m going with Manny Jacinto. If Star Wars doesn’t want him, then put him in a suit, give him a badge, and let us watch him uncover monsters, aliens, and government conspiracies in between throwing pencils at the ceiling.

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bitchy | King Charles’s current Lord Steward was head of royal protection in 2011
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bitchy | King Charles’s current Lord Steward was head of royal protection in 2011

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Over the weekend, about a full day after Prince Andrew volunteered to relinquish his royal titles and honors, the Mail reported that Andrew asked one of his royal protection officers to dig up information about Virginia Giuffre. Andrew had gotten ahold of Virginia’s date of birth and Social Security number, and he passed the information along to the police officers guarding him. He bragged about all of this to Ed Perkins, who was then Queen Elizabeth II’s deputy press secretary. No one knows if Andrew’s RPOs actually looked into Virginia. But what is known is that many people around Andrew AND QEII knew that Andrew was trying to dig up dirt on her. Well, at the same time Andrew was ordering his RPOs to do this, the head of royal protection was a man by the name of Peter Loughborough. He’s currently known as Lord Peter Rosslyn, Lord Steward and Personal Secretary to King Charles and Queen Camilla.

A current senior member of the King’s household was the head of royal protection at the time Prince Andrew allegedly asked one of his police officers to dig up dirt on Virginia Guiffre, Sky News has discovered. Lord Peter Rosslyn, who is now Lord Steward and Personal Secretary to the King and Queen, was head of Royalty and Diplomatic Protection between 2003-2014.

It is not clear if Lord Rosslyn – known at the time as Commander Peter Loughborough – was made aware of Prince Andrew’s request. However, it reportedly happened in 2011 when it’s claimed Andrew wrote in an email that he passed the date of birth and confidential social security number of his accuser, Virginia Guiffre, to one of his close protection team to find out information about her.

At the weekend, the Metropolitan Police said it was “actively looking into the claims made”. Sky News approached Lord Rosslyn for comment, which was passed to Buckingham Palace.

A palace spokesperson said: “As you may or may not be aware, Lord Rosslyn works for The Royal Household and thus this issue has been referred to me. However, since this matter relates to his time in service with the Metropolitan Police, they would be the appropriate body to approach with media enquiries of this nature.”

The Met Police had nothing further to add. Police sources have told Sky News the officer (CPO) involved would have been expected to escalate this request from Andrew to his superiors.

While there may have been other members of senior staff between the CPO and Lord Rosslyn, the request should have been considered serious enough to be referred to the top of the Royalty and Diplomatic Service. Those with knowledge of the royal household tell us Lord Rosslyn is one of the King’s closest and most trusted members of staff. His role as Lord Steward involves managing all aspects of the King’s personal affairs, and the non-state business of the monarch.

[From Sky News]

While I’m not expecting to hear much more about this investigatory avenue, I think it’s interesting that royal reporters are at least doing some bare-bones straight reporting. They’re looking into who was part of the royal protection unit in 2011, who might have received Andrew’s information about Virginia, and whether the officers did anything about it, including “inform their commanding officers that a prince wanted them to dig up dirt on an American trafficking survivor.” If we had an FBI worth a damn, I’m sure they’d like to know if British police were actively investigating and dirt-digging on an American citizen/survivor as well. It would certainly be interesting to know if the king’s current Lord Steward has any recollection of the king’s brother ordering RPOs to look into Virginia. It would certainly be fascinating to see Ravec deal with this quandary too, especially since members of the royal households sit on the committee which assigns royal protection. It’s not so much a Venn diagram as much as it is just one big circle.

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bitchy | Donald Trump ripped out the White House’s East Wing to make room for his ballroom
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bitchy | Donald Trump ripped out the White House’s East Wing to make room for his ballroom

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This year has been full of so many castrophically evil stories, almost all of which are happening because of Donald Trump and his fascist minions. It feels weird to complain about issues which are somewhat superficial, but I still find this stuff extremely depressing. Trump already paved over the White House Rose Garden, turning it into an outdoor dining pavilion similar to something you would find outside of a mall food court. But Trump’s biggest change to the White House is the destruction of the East Wing, all to build a massive “ballroom” on the White House complex. Well, Trump announced the ballroom plans months ago, and they broke ground on Monday.

President Donald Trump has begun demolishing the traditional work space of First Lady Melania Trump and her staff to make way for his “big, beautiful” ballroom. Two months after unveiling plans to build the 90,000-square foot ballroom, construction crews have begun tearing down the covered entrance of the East Wing, with cranes and backhoes attacking window frames and knocking away parts of the exterior cladding. Dramatic photos and videos revealed the first stage of the transformation on Monday, showing windows of the historic building smashed and ripped off their hinges.

The new ballroom is being built in the East Wing, which has long housed the offices for the first lady, whose staff have been temporarily relocated to other parts of the White House complex. The Daily Beast has reached out for confirmation as to where they are currently working from.

The former upper floor of White House calligraphy office now has a massive hole, while trees and shrubs have also been cleared from the White House South Lawn to make way for construction.

Trump acknowledged the project at an event in the East Room on Monday afternoon honoring the Louisiana State University baseball teams, telling his guests: “right on the other side, you have a lot of construction going on.”

He later posted on Truth Social declaring that “ground has been broken on the White House grounds to build the new, big, beautiful White House Ballroom. Completely separate from the White House itself, the East Wing is being fully modernized as part of this process, and will be more beautiful than ever when it is complete! For more than 150 years, every President has dreamt about having a Ballroom at the White House to accommodate people for grand parties, State Visits, etc. I am honored to be the first President to finally get this much-needed project underway — with zero cost to the American Taxpayer!”

However, critics have noted that the ballroom, which is expected to cost at least $250 million, is being built at a time when many Americans are still struggling with cost-of-living pressures – something that Trump promised to fix.

[From The Daily Beast]

What I keep thinking about is the history, and how presidents for the past century have been so conscious of the unique history of the White House, and they see themselves as caretakers to the historic property, if nothing else. Sure, some of them made smaller renovations – I remember President Obama talking about how Harry Truman added a private balcony on the top floor, and it was one of Obama’s favorite spots. But none of them would have ripped out the East Wing and built a gaudy, tacky f–king ballroom. Even Trump’s hero Richard Nixon was in awe of the White House’s history and he took pains to never damage or disrupt the actual structure and the museum-quality pieces around the house.

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bitchy | “Alexander Skarsgard’s ‘Pillion’ premiere pics went viral” links
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bitchy | “Alexander Skarsgard’s ‘Pillion’ premiere pics went viral” links

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These “leather daddy” photos of Alexander Skarsgard at the London Film Festival went viral over the weekend. He attended the LFF premiere of Pillion. [OMG Blog]
Happy 45th birthday to Kim Kardashian. [Hollywood Life]
I don’t understand why people have a problem with 5-ft-tall Suni Lee walking the Victoria’s Secret runway? Short girls wear lingerie too. [Buzzfeed]
More thoughts on Prince Andrew and the late Virginia Giuffre. [LaineyGossip]
Speaker Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Adelita Grijalva. [Jezebel]
Review of The Perfect Neighbor. [Pajiba]
A celebrity Diwali party? That’s pretty cool. [JustJared]
Sabrina Carpenter’s cultural insensitivity on SNL. [Socialite Life]
I’ve never seen a childhood pic of Ryan Seacrest. [Seriously OMG]
Zoe Kravitz wore Saint Laurent at the Academy Museum gala. [RCFA]

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bitchy | The state of California will sell its own affordable insulin for $11 per pen
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bitchy | The state of California will sell its own affordable insulin for $11 per pen

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In 2020, the California legislature set up CalRx, a signature program for Governor Gavin Newsom which he envisioned as a way to reduce ever-increasing health care costs by cutting Big Pharma out of the process. CalRx was finally funded in 2022, and by the next year the state had contracted a nonprofit manufacturer to produce long-acting insulin. After a couple years in development, CalRx has announced that starting in January they will be selling insulin pens to pharmacies for $45 per five-pack, who in turn will make the packs available to patients with a suggested retail price of no more than $55 a pack. What’s the comparison to packs offered by Big Pharma companies? Anywhere from $89 to $411. Big Pharma, working for the profits; Big Govt, working for the people.

Rx to the rescue: The insulin pens will be supplied through the CalRx program, an initiative launched under Newsom in which the state contracts with manufacturers to produce generic pharmaceuticals. The pens, which people with diabetes use to control the level of insulin in their bodies, will be the same as other long-acting insulin on the market. They will come with a suggested price for consumers of no more than $55 for a pack of five — a significant discount from current prices.

Doing the right thing: “California didn’t wait for the pharmaceutical industry to do the right thing — we took matters into our own hands,” Newsom said in a statement announcing the new drug. “No Californian should ever have to ration insulin or go into debt to stay alive — and I won’t stop until health care costs are crushed for everyone.” The announcement establishes California as the vanguard among states for ways to keep health care affordable in a system dominated by for-profit companies and underscores the Golden State’s ability to leverage the scale of its massive economy and buying power.

The scrooges making our medicine: The cost of insulin has come down since it was a major political issue in 2017 when the top manufacturers of the drug — Eli Lilly, Sanofi and Novo Nordisk — were accused in a class action lawsuit of dramatically raising prices each year. A prescription that had cost patients $25 had ballooned to $300, the lawsuit claimed, and politicians latched on to the issue as an example of the pharmaceutical industry run amok. In 2024, the federal government brought a suit against pharmacy middlemen, also accusing them of contributing to the ballooning cost of insulin.

A new deal: Under the CalRx deal, pharmacies in California will be able to purchase the 5-pack of insulin pens for $45 and sell them to patients at the suggested retail price of $55. Similar products from name brand companies cost pharmacies between $89 and $411, according to state figures.

Naloxone is next: Through CalRx, the state has also contracted to provide a cheaper version of the naloxone, which can reverse an opioid overdose. And earlier this year Newsom announced plans to work on bulk-purchasing asthma medication. He has also floated the idea of using CalRx to either produce or stockpile abortion medication.

[From Politico]

Damn, between this and California recently banning loud ads on streaming platforms (ok, less life and death but still important!) I’m feeling downright nostalgic for my home state! As the fifth fourth largest economy in the world, this is exactly the kind of ballsy move California should be making. To paraphrase Newsom (to exaggerated effect), we’re all gonna die waiting for Big Pharma to do the right, humane thing. Even when it comes to lifesaving medicine. So that’s why we need government to advocate on our behalf rather than try to kill us.

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bitchy | Mail: Duchess Meghan is getting a Harper’s Bazaar cover, not a Vogue cover
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bitchy | Mail: Duchess Meghan is getting a Harper’s Bazaar cover, not a Vogue cover

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Last Friday, there was a steady drumbeat of bad headline after bad headline about Prince Andrew, all leading up to his big move of announcing that he was giving up his ducal title and his honors. Since then, a million stories have been published about Andrew and the House of York. I bring up the timeline because it’s astonishing to see how many stories were also published about the Duchess of Sussex in the hours and days after Andrew’s big announcement. Almost as if the same old rancid courtiers, royalists and editors decided to run the exact same play they’ve been running for six-plus years: whenever Andrew is in trouble, attack the Sussexes, particularly Meghan. Well, the Mail’s Alison Boshoff had a particularly unhinged story about Meghan’s “maneuvers” this month, from Meghan’s Paris Fashion Week appearance to her Q&A session with Fortune, to her meeting with Vogue’s new editor-in-chief. They are desperate to put the most negative spin on all of this.

It was obvious from her appearance in Paris during this month’s Fashion Week that Meghan was planning to place a dainty, size-six foot in the fashion world. For while the Duchess of Sussex may have accumulated many baubles, one long-held dream still eludes her: being awarded the cover of a high-end fashion magazine.Her Paris jaunt led to much speculation she was soon to announce she had made the cover of Vogue.

Indeed Meghan, a bold networker, shared hugs and air kisses with all-powerful global Vogue boss Anna Wintour and with American Vogue’s new editor, Chloe Malle, at the Balenciaga show in Paris. She also met with Malle when she was in New York on Friday last week. The two women were seen sharing what appeared to be cocktails in a booth at the Whitby hotel.

But while I’ve been told the Duchess is intent on building up her relationship with the venerable Conde Nast magazine, and does have a fashion magazine cover in the pipeline, it is not with Vogue. Rather, my sources exclusively tell me, Meghan has made a deal to appear on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar, published by media giant Hearst.

This cover will be a first for Meghan – who made the cover of Vanity Fair while dating Prince Harry – as she has yet to land the attentions of a high-fashion magazine. (While she guest edited the September 2019 edition of Vogue, she didn’t put her own face on the cover.)

Her meetings with Vogue supremos Wintour and Malle are, I can reveal, better viewed as Meghan trying to ‘reset’ relations. Because, as we shall see, there was a falling-out between her and the then UK Vogue Editor Edward Enninful three years ago, after the Duchess made high-handed demands of him – and it did her few favours with Anna Wintour.

While there was much talk of Meghan being pictured with Wintour, few remarked on her appearance at the Balenciaga show with Samir Nasr, the editor in chief of Harpers Bazaar. But it is Harper’s which has secured the Meghan ‘scoop’.

So is Meghan ‘on manoeuvres’ –and is this magazine cover step one of a comprehensive relaunch? Meghan 3.0, if you will? Well-placed insiders tell me the sudden burst of activity – which included an appearance at the Fortune Most Powerful Women event in Washington this week – doesn’t quite indicate anything so thought-through. The source said: ‘Her PR team are just putting her out there in a hopeful way without a plan. They aren’t being discerning and protecting her from herself. It seems they think every media opportunity is a good one and that’s insane.’

The source adds: ‘There is no strategy here. It is thoughtless and directionless. One day she is in Paris at the fashion show, positioning herself in that world, and then she shows up in Washington with Fortune magazine and wants to be regarded as a female founder. But she’s got nothing to launch, nothing to announce and nothing to say. It’s a mess. The Sussexes seem to be spiralling. They are throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks. I don’t understand why she would do a magazine cover when she has nothing coming out. It is evident that either she isn’t being advised properly or else she isn’t listening. Honestly, whoever is in charge shouldn’t even be putting this stuff in front of her, to protect her from herself.’

[From The Daily Mail]

You have to understand the “magical thinking” that goes alongside these stories. What could have been a simple exclusive (which may or may not be true) about Meghan appearing on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar has to be twisted into “Meghan is desperate for a fashion cover, she has nothing to announce except for all of her projects, Anna Wintour hates her, believe us!!” Anna Wintour doesn’t hate her, and I strongly suspect that Meghan has been offered the cover of American Vogue before and turned it down. I also suspect that Meghan has turned down other fashion covers before. Just because the Mail’s lunatic-asylum sources claim that Meghan’s strategy is a “mess” does not make it so. These people are too stupid to understand how a woman could appear at a fashion show AND be a female founder.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid, screencaps courtesy of Fortune’s YouTube video.

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bitchy | Scooter King William will ‘remove titles’ from the Sussex family & the York family
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bitchy | Scooter King William will ‘remove titles’ from the Sussex family & the York family

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Tom Sykes is doing his Royalist Substack full-time now, and he’s had some interesting exclusives, straight from sources close to Scooter King William. That was the case in Sykes’ Daily Beast days as well – his sources are consistently Scooter-adjacent, let’s say. Well, in one exclusive, Sykes was going on and on about how Prince William was claiming credit for Prince Andrew’s title-demotion, all because King Charles is “dying” and William is regent in all but name. Sykes also noted: When William “ascends to the throne, I am told he will issue new letters patent (as royal executive orders are known) to strip Andrew (and Harry, Archie, Lilibet, Eugenie, and Beatrice) of their HRH and Princely titles.” Perhaps sensing that this was a bigger exclusive than “William demands credit for Andrew’s demotion,” Sykes then spun out this Letters Patent story into a second exclusive:

Prince William will strip Prince Andrew, along with all other non-working royals, of their HRHs and princely titles when he ascends to the throne, friends and allies of the Prince have told The Royalist. The dramatic change will be effected by an executive royal order known as “letters patent” ratified by Parliament in the early weeks of the reign of King William V. It will remove princely titles not just from Andrew but also from Beatrice, Eugenie, Harry, Archie, and Lilibet. The children of Prince Edward and Princess Anne have never used princely titles.

Meghan and Harry will also see their dukedoms and HRHs formally revoked by the new king, the source said. Meghan continues to use her HRH despite being ordered not to do so by the late Queen Elizabeth II.

A source said William’s own children may have their titles informally “parked” until they become adults and can decide for themselves if they want to be full-time working royals or lead lives as private citizens. The source said they are never addressed as prince or princess in any situation by their parents, teachers, staff, or family.

As an ally of William’s told The Royalist: “On Wednesday, the king’s office was saying that removing the dukedom would be a completely lame and ineffectual gesture unless you took away the prince title as well. On Friday, it’s suddenly the other way round, and persuading him to drop the duke title, without even taking it away, is being held up as a triumph of the king’s steely will. His operation is a mess.”

Another friend of William’s, who told The Royalist about the plan to remove a huge swathe of princely titles, said: “It should have been done by Charles this week, but William knows he doesn’t have the strength because of his illness. William is understanding of his father’s situation. William won’t be afraid to take the next step.”

They added: “William thinks about Queen Margrethe of Denmark a lot.”

In 2022, Queen Margrethe II removed princely titles from four of her grandchildren—Nikolai, Felix, Henrik, and Athena. The Queen said the decision was made to allow her grandchildren greater freedom to shape their own lives.

The intel gathered on this issue by The Royalist meshes with a report in the London Sunday Times today that Andrew will be excluded from William’s coronation, that he considers his uncle a “threat” to the monarchy, and is deeply concerned about the message Andrew’s presence at royal events sends to victims of sexual abuse.

[From The Royalist Substack]

While this is not the most important thing to note, I can’t help thinking that William’s coronation is going to be really pitiful. He openly loathes the pomp, he hates most of his family, and he hates to work. He’ll probably demand that they pop the crown on his egg head in front of literally twos of people, and then straight from his coronation, he’ll head to one of his castles and no one will see him for weeks.

As for William’s promises to strip almost everyone of their HRHs, ducal titles, what have you… so be it. He’s been threatening that for years, specifically with the Sussexes. At this point, it makes no difference to Harry and Meghan or their children. I find it bizarre that William is so set on “punishing” his niece and nephew, considering he’s only met Archie once or twice and he’s never even been in the same room as Lili. But the Scooter King’s Letters Patent will just show how idiotic the whole thing really is. Either it matters that you’re born into royalty or it doesn’t. Either all of QEII’s descendents have magic royal blood or they don’t. Make up your mind.

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bitchy | Emails show Jeffrey Epstein ‘secretly bankrolled’ Sarah Ferguson for 15 years
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bitchy | Emails show Jeffrey Epstein ‘secretly bankrolled’ Sarah Ferguson for 15 years

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Over the summer, when royal biographer Andrew Lownie was promoting his book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, he made some interesting claims specifically about Sarah Ferguson and Jeffrey Epstein. According to Lownie’s research and sources, Epstein had given Fergie close to $2 million all told, across many years. When Fergie publicly apologized in 2011 for “borrowing $15K” from Epstein, many felt it was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to how much money she actually conned out of Epstein. Well, now that more of the Epstein files/emails are coming out, it looks like Lownie had it right. And it was probably much, much worse than Lownie knew. According to this Daily Mail exclusive, Epstein “secretly bankrolled” Fergie for 15 years. Some highlights from the Mail:

Jeffrey Epstein secretly bankrolled Sarah Ferguson for 15 years, astonishing new emails claim. The convicted paedophile complained to friends about the disgraced duchess’s scrounging ways in messages that suggest his financial support went far beyond the £15,000 she admitted taking from him.

In the previously unseen emails, Epstein reveals Fergie was so desperate to cosy up to him that ‘she was the first to celebrate’ his release from jail ‘with her two daughters in tow’. Princess Beatrice would have been 20 at the time and Eugenie 19, the same age as many of his victims.

The shocking claims are contained in a huge tranche of documents under review by the US Congress. They are set to be released once they have been redacted to protect the identity of hundreds of young girls Epstein raped and sexually abused. The sordid nature of Fergie’s relationship with the paedophile and the chummy tone of their correspondence makes sickening reading that will repulse the sex offender’s many victims.

Emails seen by The Mail on Sunday show: Fergie begged to borrow $50,000 to $100,000 to help with ‘small bills’; She asked to visit Epstein’s private island, joking whether her financial woes made it ‘unavailable to bankrupts?’; Epstein paid off debts the duchess owed a former employee but became angry when she failed to pay him back as promised; While disavowing Epstein in public, Fergie kept up contact and let him help set up a charity for her; Epstein brazenly gave Fergie ‘talking points’ before she was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey.

Tonight a well-placed source said: ‘Sarah and Prince Andrew have always maintained they distanced themselves from Epstein after his conviction for child prostitution. In fact, it was Epstein who ended up dumping them. He got sick and tired of Sarah constantly asking him for money. She borrowed far more money off him than has ever come out. In public she said one thing but in private she was always holding out the begging bowl.’

Earlier emails show how close the pair were, despite Epstein having admitted to soliciting a minor for prostitution in a ‘sweetheart deal’ that led to 13 months in a low-security jail with day release. He was let out in July 2009 and remained under house arrest until July 21, 2010. He exchanged a number of emails with Fergie in that time. In June 2010, Sarah told Epstein: ‘I will never forget your kindness and friendship at this time’ to which he replied: ‘A-team or no team. It’s your line.’

On January 16, 2010, Sarah wrote: ‘Is there any chance I could borrow 50 or 100,000 US dollars to help get through the small bills that are pushing me over? Had to ask.’ Epstein was having his bank accounts monitored at the time and said he couldn’t help. Undeterred, Sarah told him to ‘ask Giuseppe… I would be so grateful.’ Epstein replied: ‘I could but it would be impolite. You need to address these issues. You are great.’ It is thought this is a reference to New York restaurant owner Giuseppe Cipriani, an old friend of the duchess. Tonight his representative declined to say whether Mr Cipriani gave Fergie money.

A source said tonight: ‘Andrew and Sarah were in it up to their necks with Epstein. It was always about the money. This was always going to be their downfall.’

[From The Daily Mail]

Re: Fergie borrowing/taking all of that money, I’ll admit to finding it morbidly and horrifically funny in a way. Fergie was and is such an unrepentant grifter that she was conning a convicted sex trafficker out of millions, millions he “earned” through blackmailing public figures with what he knew of their criminal predilections. Fergie didn’t care about any of that – she thought she had found the golden goose, the mark of her dreams. As for connecting Beatrice and Eugenie to this, and Fergie taking her daughters to see Epstein after he got out of prison… YIKES. Holy sh-t. Whatever deal struck by Prince Andrew and King Charles, it included a hands-off approach to Bea and Eugenie – as in, Charles wouldn’t touch their titles. I wonder if we’re going to find the princesses’ names in more emails. What a mess.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid, Cover Images, Fergie’s social media.

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bitchy | “Josh O’Connor was impossibly cute at the London Film Festival” links
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bitchy | “Josh O’Connor was impossibly cute at the London Film Festival” links

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Josh O’Connor & Paul Mescal premiered The History of Sound at the London Film Festival. I really dislike the menswear trends these days. That being said, Josh is impossibly cute (to me), even though I know the younger girls love Paul. [Just Jared]
Joe Manganiello & Caitlin O’Connor are engaged. [Hollywood Life]
Ayo Edebiri in Chanel at the Academy Museum gala. [RCFA]
This Matthew Rhys-Claire Danes series looks good. [LaineyGossip]
Black Phone 2 review: a mess! [Pajiba]
Julia Fox’s latest crazy ensemble. [Go Fug Yourself]
Why did Brandy leave Monica to finish their concert? [Socialite Life]
Legendary movie-poster artist Drew Struzan has passed. [OMG Blog]
Sabrina Carpenter dropped some f-bombs on SNL. [Seriously OMG]
A Love After Lockup star’s criminal history. [Starcasm]
Gavin Newsom continues to troll Donald Trump & JD Vance. [Buzzfeed]

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