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Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with

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Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. All the attention has been on

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Speaker 1: the unfortunate Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, but it's his ex wife,

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Speaker 1: Sarah Ferguson whose communications with Jeffrey Epstein were the most gushing.

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Speaker 1: The former Duchess of York, known as Fergie, divorced the

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Speaker 1: former Duke of York in nineteen ninety six, but the

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Speaker 1: pair have remained close and while Ferguson worked on various

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Speaker 1: business ventures, including writing books and being an ambassador for

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Speaker 1: weight watchers, they lived together in the Windsor Estate Mansion

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Speaker 1: Royal Lodge. During that time, Ferguson was aggressively courting Jeffrey Epstein,

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Speaker 1: sending him emails declaring he felt like the brother she'd

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Speaker 1: never had, declaring she loved him, and asking for a

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Speaker 1: job as his house assistant as she needed the money.

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Speaker 1: Before Epstein went to prison for child prostitution offenses, he

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Speaker 1: attended the eighteenth birthday party of Princess Bier at Windsor

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Speaker 1: Castle along with Epstein's girlfriend gilln Maxwell and the now

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Speaker 1: disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein After Epstein pleaded guilty and

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Speaker 1: went to jail, Ferguson and Mountbatten Windsor continued their contact

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Speaker 1: with Epstein and Maxwell, including inviting them to Buckingham Palace

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Speaker 1: for dinner. Now emails published by the US Department of

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Speaker 1: Justice in the so called Epstein Files appear to show

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Speaker 1: Ferguson introducing her twenty two year old goddaughter to Epstein

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Speaker 1: a year after his release from prison. The young woman,

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Speaker 1: Poppy Kotchrel, was the daughter of Ferguson's former lady in waiting,

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Speaker 1: Carolyn Cottrell. Over to you lots of love, Ferguson wrote

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Speaker 1: to Epstein in an email providing Poppy Culchrell's contact details

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Speaker 1: in twenty ten. That's according to reports from our sister

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Speaker 1: mast Head The Times of London. Subsequent emails indicate Epstein

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Speaker 1: and the young woman met up, that he considered employing her,

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Speaker 1: and that he offered to make a charity donation in

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Speaker 1: her name. Poppy Cultrell told The Sun newspaper in Britain,

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Speaker 1: Epstein offered her a job looking after his art collection,

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Speaker 1: which she declined and never met him again. She said

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Speaker 1: she had no knowledge of the charitable donation. Sarah Ferguson

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Speaker 1: is believed to be living in the United Arab Emirates

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Speaker 1: since being booted from Royal Lodge, with a stay at

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Speaker 1: a Swiss spa along the way. She hasn't been seen

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Speaker 1: in public since Andrew Mountbatten Windsor was arrested last week

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Speaker 1: as part of a police investigation into alleged misconduct in

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Speaker 1: public office. Both mount Baton, Windsor and Ferguson deny any

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Speaker 1: wrongdoing and say they had no knowledge of Epstein and

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Speaker 1: Maxwell's offending. Check out that story live right now at

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Speaker 1: the Australian dot com. Plus come back to the front

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Speaker 1: tomorrow for our close look at the escalating tensions in

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Speaker 1: the Middle East, where Hesbela is rearming at a pace

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Speaker 1: that's surprising the whole world. That's right here, Tuesday morning,