Sarah Ferguson has did not land a brand new ebook deal within the US, based on a well-placed supply
Sarah Ferguson with former husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (Picture: Getty)
Sarah Ferguson has did not land a giant cash ebook deal in America, a senior Hollywood supply has revealed.
Main US publishing homes have rejected a pitch for the previous Duchess of York to jot down a tell-all memoir.
Fergie, 66, had been hoping to safe an advance “within the area of $2million (£1.49million),” based on the supply, who added: “She ended up with a string of rejections and 0 response in any respect in a number of circumstances.
“It appears no-one is remotely considering being seen to be enabling her to cash-in on the Epstein scandal that has torn her circle of relatives aside and fully ruined her ex-husband.”
As a substitute the previous royal has been publicly shamed by the discharge of e-mail exchanges revealing her closeness to Jeffrey Epstein, together with one by which the late paedophile claimed to have been bailing her out financially for 15 years.
In one other she thanked the billionaire financier “for being the brother I’ve at all times wished for” and in a 3rd made a crude sexual reference to her and Andrew’s youngest daughter Princess Eugenie, now 35, who was 19 on the time.
Fergie as soon as loved a profitable profession throughout the pond, the place she has labored as a roving correspondent for NBC’s At present present and appeared in quite a few commercials as the general public face of Weight Watchers, in addition to changing into a distinguished creator of kids’s books.
As this newspaper completely revealed final month, the previous duchess is determined to reignite that profession after she and ex-husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, previously Prince Andrew, lastly parted firm when he was evicted from their former residence – Royal Lodge in Windsor – early final month.
Our supply stated yesterday: “Any notion she might need had about retaining her American dream alive now appears to have been killed-off fully. Commercially, because the failed ebook deal reveals, she’s turn out to be a pariah.”
(FILES) Sarah Ferguson (L), adopted by Britain’s Prince Andrew, Duke of York, leaves St. George’s C (Picture: AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
That view was echoed final week by Andrew Lownie, creator of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the Home of York, who stated that the ex-duchess, who has not been seen in public for months, “will discover it very onerous to come back again.”
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Fellow British royal creator Robert Jobson added in a US interview: “She was launched to this (royal way of life) and has saved residing it,” describing her as “determined for cash.”
Requested for a remark about her tried ebook deal, a spokesperson for LA-based superstar company Artists First, which nonetheless represents her in America, stated: “Don’t anticipate a name again on this.”
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