Today is the one-week anniversary of Prince Andrew’s arrest. He was held in custody by the Thames River police for about twelve hours last Thursday. He was not charged, although the police did execute search warrants on Wood Farm and Royal Lodge. Apparently, it took the police five or six days to search Royal Lodge, because Andrew still had most of his crap there. Throughout it all, Sarah Ferguson has been in the wind. It looks weird, right? It’s been weird. No one knows where she is, but they’ve traced her movements from Switzerland to Qatar in recent months. Well, now Page Six claims that just before all of this Jeffrey Epstein stuff exploded this year, Sarah was trying to break into Hollywood yet again.

Former Duchess Sarah Ferguson was trying to pitch her 2021 romance novel as a TV or film project in Hollywood before the DOJ’s Jeffrey Epstein files data dump — and before her ex, former Prince Andrew, was arrested in the UK — sources tell P6H.

“She was asking for some of us to push for [her novel] ‘Heart For A Compass’ to be presented to networks and streamers as their ‘next serious hit,’ as a cross between ‘Bridgerton’ and ‘The Crown,’” said a skeptical pal. “She’d had it rewritten and repitched, and was asking for any connects to take on the project. Everyone was very cautious.”

The project was previously pitched to networks in 2023, but Fergie was trying a “last Hail Mary in Hollywood,” said a source after execs at NBC, HBO and Netflix passed.

A source tells us that Fergie was also telling pals her hands were clean concerning Jeffrey Epstein — while throwing her ex-hubby under the bus as the true pal of the late, disgraced financier. (As a result of the unsealed files, Andrew was arrested on his 66th birthday in the UK for allegedly forwarding confidential trade documents to his pedophile pal.)

A source tells Page Six Hollywood that Fergie had tried to assure acquaintances in NYC and LA that she was misled by Epstein, and that she allegedly begged friends “speak up for her” to secure meetings with studios and production companies to develop a TV version of the book.

“Somehow Fergie wanted people who have worked with her, or social friends, to go into bat for her,” said a source. “She wanted some of us to actually vouch for her with businesses, media companies and some non-profits to not only assure them she was being misrepresented by the Epstein Files, but [that she] herself was some kind of ‘casualty of wrong doing.’”

But the files seemingly revealed a closer association. Fergie wrote to Epstein, the released DOJ files reveal, in 2009 saying: “You are a legend. I really don’t have the words to describe, my love, gratitude for your generosity and kindness… Xx I am at your service . Just marry me.” The same year, she allegedly wrote Epstein: “I urgently need 20,000 pounds ($27,521) for rent today.”

[From Page Six]

First of all, I think by now, most people understand Sarah’s deal beyond the Epstein stuff. She’s a user, she’s always broke, no one can count on her, she’s always borrowing money for this and that. I imagine she got some meetings and everyone in Hollywood was like “my god, we cannot be in business with this woman in any way, shape or form.” Even before the release of the Epstein Files, Sarah’s attempts at a “comeback” had worn thin. Now that we can read her emails and texts to Epstein, any hope for another comeback is completely over. But I’m still curious about where she’s hiding and what will happen to her. I’m actually concerned that some powerful people might see her as a loose end.

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