Newly released FBI emails reveal Sarah Ferguson, the disgraced ex-Duchess of York, tried connecting a British socialite with Kash Patel within weeks of his swearing-in as FBI Director — right as he took charge of reviewing the case files of deceased child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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Bloomberg, which sued to force the release of Epstein-related FBI communications, reported that Ferguson relayed a message through a senior diplomat at the U.S. embassy in London in March 2025, asking the diplomat to pass along contact information for Victoria Hervey, a socialite who previously dated her ex-husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew.
An FBI legal attaché emailed Patel about the request the same morning.
“The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, reached out and wanted to provide contact information for Victoria Harvey,” the attaché wrote, misspelling Hervey’s name.
Patel responded later that day, seemingly unfamiliar with who she was: “Thanks for the relay. Remind me who Victoria Harvey is?”
The attaché explained Patel had reportedly met both Hervey and Ferguson’s longtime assistant, Antonia Marshall, at the Trump International Golf Course and had asked for their contact details there. Hervey had posted a photo with Patel and President Donald Trump two months earlier, wearing a hat reading “TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING.”
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An FBI spokesperson downplayed the exchange, telling Bloomberg Patel “does not know who this Victoria Hervey person is” and noting he’s “taken photos with thousands of people.”
The emails carry no direct mention of Epstein, but the FBI released them within a broader cache titled “Records regarding the review of the investigative holdings related to Jeffrey Epstein.” The correspondence surfaced seven months before Mountbatten-Windsor was formally expelled from the Royal Family after documents showed he’d stayed in contact with Epstein far longer than previously admitted.
Separate DOJ records show Ferguson herself emailed Epstein in 2011, apologizing to him years after his 2008 sex-crime conviction, despite publicly claiming she’d cut ties.
Mountbatten-Windsor himself was arrested in connection with the Epstein offenses earlier this year. Meanwhile, Patel has come under intense scrutiny over reports of his increasingly erratic behavior on the job.
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