Sarah Ferguson declined $3m sex with Saudi prince
THE Duchess of York's biographer, Alan Starkie, said she declined numerous offers of money over the year.
Sarah Ferguson, caught in a tabloid sting last week offering to sell access to ex-husband Prince Andrew for ₤500,000 ($850,000), even turned down a $US3 million ($3, 548,000) offer from a Saudi prince she called "Rubber Lips" who wanted to bed her, Starkie said.
"A blue jeans manufacturer offered a million pounds ($1.7 million) for the duchess to simply model a pair for publicity photos.
"A prominent American real estate developer promised her a free condominium on Central Park South ... in return for permission to mention that she was a tenant," said the author of Fergie: Her Secret Life.
"A West End (of London) theatre suggested that she portray the wild Queen Boadicea, who had opposed the Romans, opposite Peter O'Toole in a limited engagement for a quarter of a million pounds ($427,000).
"A clever East End businessman offered a pound per night ($1.70) for each occupant of his proposed Duchess of York Old Age Homes."
Nonetheless, "she insisted on hiring a retinue of servants that she felt was necessary to provide the right environment for her two daughters, who were, after all, princesses," he said.
When the British aristocrat's debts approached £3 million ($5.1 million), he "introduced her to a member of the Saudi royal family who was willing to pay it off completely.
"I arranged for Sarah to visit him ... He met her alone, clad in flowing robes and a lascivious grin ... When he tried to kiss her, she fled home and quickly called me, referring to the fellow dismissively as 'Rubber Lips', indicating that when those lips sprung forward and plastered themselves upon her mouth, 'it felt like extricating oneself from a suction cup' as she pulled free.
"Perhaps one does not think it is laudatory simply not to prostitute oneself, or to turn down offers that seem too pedestrian for royalty. But it remains that she did turn them down. She had limits," Starkie said.
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