Since it looks like a slow gossip afternoon, I decided to do this story on yet another scandalous Fergie story. Like the great disservice Fergie did to herself with yesterday’s Oprah interview, this new story has the potential to leave Fergie’s reputation in tatters. Unfortunately, it’s coming from the bottom dregs of the gossip world. So why am I talking about it? Because I think there’s something there. So… the story: Fergie is basically a high-class hooker. Because of the affection many people have for the British monarchy, and because many men see Fergie as a high-profile “get” for their bedpost, some sources have been alleging that Fergie has been supporting herself financially by prostituting herself to wealthy gentlemen. Unfortunately, I think the Globe got their story from Ian Undercover:

A day after being caught, in an undercover sting, of accepting a 500,000 pound offer in exchange for access to her ex husband Prince Andrew, new allegations have surfaced against the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson. According to a former press attache for the Duchess, it was not the first time she accepted cash on a table.

“Sarah’s always making surreptitious deals for cash, she’s a throwback to the old way of doing business,” the source said. The press attache claims Ferguson spent a week on a luxury, 65 metre yacht three years ago with two wealthy Saudi oil tycoons. As part of the deal, which reportedly paid the Duchess 300,000 pounds cash in a suitcase, the Duchess agreed to participate in sexual activities with the two wealthy oil tycoons.

“She had no problem with their demands for sex because she Sarah loves to get down and dirty,” the source told IUC. “In fact when she returned to Britain a week later I overheard her talking to a friend, bragging about her new enterprise. She said she had ‘a much needed wild time’ and in the process got paid for it.”

A royal insider close to Fergie told IUC he did not think Fergie would participate in such a “seedy enterprise”.

“Certainly, she’s not the most ethical person,” the source said. “But selling her body, I just don’t think she’d do it. Sarah’s not that type of person.”

Back in 1992, Ferguson was the center of another Royal sex scandal when she got caught cheating on her husband with wealthy businessmen, once with Texas tycoon/playboy Steve Wyatt, the other with wealthy financial manager John Bryan who was photographed sucking on the toes of a topless Fergie.

“Sarah likes to sleep with wealthy men in exchange for cash,” one of the Ferguson’s longtime Chelsea pals told IUC. “She did this in boarding school and also when she attended Queen’s Secretarial College. When she got engaged to Andrew all her close friends were shocked because of her dodgy past. We all knew there would be a lot of trouble ahead.”

[From Ian Undercover]

Could this all be bullsh-t? Of course. Do I disbelieve Ian Undercover on general principal? Of course. But after Fergie scrambled and equivocated to Oprah on the issue of money, question after question, you do have to ask – how has she been supporting herself all of these years? Yes, she’s a successful author. But she lives large, and she’s a horrible businesswoman, and that’s why she’s in so much debt right now. I really do think there could be something to this story, just because it would make so much sense.

Globe cover courtesy of CoverAwards.