Amazing video out of London this morning, which shows former Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson selling access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew for $750,000. The deal was set up by an undercover reporter from the British tabloid News of the World, who posed as a Middle Eastern tycoon looking for access to the Prince’s network.

“He meets the most amazing people,” Fergie says on the video. “And he throws them my way.”

Since her $3 million deal with Weight Watchers ran out in 2007, Fergie said she has been in financial dire straits. She said in a statement after the story ran, that her financial problems are “no excuse for a serious lapse in judgment, and I am very sorry that this has happened. I very deeply regret the situation and the embarrassment caused.”

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Comments (46)

  1. Posted by guest | May 24, 2010 at 10:27 AM

    It was only a matter of time before Handbridge Capital got caught up in this whole “pay to play” thing. You think HC would have more clever ways of “raising” capital.

  2. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 10:31 AM

    If she were a politician would her behavior be any different?

  3. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 10:36 AM

    Boring…more interesting video would have been of Fergie peddling her lady lumps

  4. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 10:37 AM

    I would probably titty fuck her with the lights on for $10 and a bag of crisps. Probably.

    -a guy who likes to do things for bags of crisps

  5. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 10:40 AM

    @4 try the new ruffles lower in salt with that….

  6. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 10:51 AM

    The strisses of ivverydye life kin have in iffict one one’s pussonul life and fininces. And then we kin git in trouble and have a picture of our brists or clividge idded to the news item to be more silicious. Some wimmen, like men, will silf midikyte while under such striss. It is no liffing mitter. I think Miss Sarah will come through this crisis with her hid hild hye. I hope Prince Indrew ill come to her finincial riscue!!

    ~A News Prifishinil from Mellbunn

  7. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 10:54 AM

    she looks so ex-regal in that pic

  8. Posted by Guest | May 24, 2010 at 10:59 AM

    Wow, you really hate to see someone tarnish the sparkling reputation of the British royalty like this….er….nevermind

  9. Posted by ExtraordinaryPopularDelusions | May 24, 2010 at 11:03 AM

    I told you she was a bitch.

    -Diana’s ghost

  10. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 11:09 AM

    @9 nicely played

  11. Posted by Guest | May 24, 2010 at 11:10 AM

    I bet the Royals wish they could go back to when they would just have their ex-wives killed. Things must have been soooo much easier in the 1990′s…..oh, I mean 1400′s…

  12. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 11:12 AM

    I hit that so hard and now I’ll never become the King of England.

    -Prince Andrew

  13. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 11:20 AM

    @12 – Very Nice!

    –Guy who always botches that joke

  14. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 11:24 AM

    @9, too soon.

  15. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 11:25 AM

    11- wow that’s tough. Seriously though, you didn;t have to be Dionne Warwick to know this was coming after the weight watchers thing. That slope is pretty freakin slippery when you weigh 200 lbs, erm, stone.

  16. Posted by Jerry Cruncher | May 24, 2010 at 11:27 AM

    What exactly does this have to do with Wall Street? Wouldn’t this be better for one of your sister blogs that cares about British royalty?

  17. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 11:27 AM

    Each freckle is a bullseye target for my love.
    SAC

  18. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 11:33 AM

    @16, Bess can put what she wants on this site, she is the DB Queen.

    Lighten up, with Amanda Drury also in the mix, she is trying to appeal to the Brits and former crown countries.

  19. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM

    what does she regret outside of getting caught? Did she give too much “access” to the bag of chips guy @4?

  20. Posted by NakedShort | May 24, 2010 at 11:38 AM

    Does this mean the Black Eyed Peas are breaking up?

  21. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 11:40 AM

    This is big. I hope it doesn’t break up the group. I’m not sure what the The Black Eyed Peas would do without her.

  22. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 11:41 AM

    @16 She’s in financial diffic-, nevermind. Fuck you first of all. Secondly, Bess can post whatever she damn well pleases.

  23. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 11:44 AM

    @16 for other worthy news – Lindsay Lohan will probably get jail time today and the late Brittany Murphy’s husband died.

  24. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 11:49 AM

    $750K? That’s all? If she was Obama, she would have received millions in campaign contributions from Lloyd, Jamie, et al.

  25. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 11:49 AM

    Now I want a bag of crisps.

    -Not Fergie, just fat

  26. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 11:57 AM

    @20 = racist. examine your motives.

  27. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 12:02 PM

    Zackums,

    You had a great angle here you could have worked. She’s pimping her ex husband…you couldn’t add any color commentary on that? She’s in such dire straits now resorts to the pimp game? This is the stuff you can do, this is why Bess’ writing is great and yours smells worse that my beer shits after a 3 day bender.

  28. Posted by Doode | May 24, 2010 at 12:04 PM

    Does not suprise me a bit: she looks like an old/overweight Lindsey Lohan… Another crazy b that blew all of her money and now does crazy sh!t

  29. Posted by Guest | May 24, 2010 at 12:08 PM

    Poor Fergie … first that Duhamel guy from Vegas cheats on her and now this… oh the indignity..

  30. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 12:22 PM

    Props to @12….!!!! Well played!! The Black Eyed Peas references were clever but predictable, but like an old friend telling you to pull her finger, such a joke doesn’t grow old. Nice references to medieval wife management by the royals, too!

    ~Guy Who Awaits a Call from J. Aron and Comments on Dealbreaker Humor

  31. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 12:59 PM

    @6 Sounds more like a New Zealander

    Kouwe – this site is about “Business News Headlines and Financial Gossip”. Which of those categories does this steaming turd fall into?

    Aside from its total irrelevance, it’s also had the shit reported out of it by the mainstream media. So thanks for telling us something no-one cares about, a few days after we’ve already been told about it.

  32. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 1:00 PM

    Uber Lohan

  33. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 1:01 PM

    “dire straights”? Is that a pun on her heterosexuality or are you really as illiterate as you appear?

  34. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 1:41 PM

    “Crisps.” Examine your motives.

  35. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 1:47 PM

    even with a push up bra, those tits are getting old.

  36. Posted by Canadian Banker | May 24, 2010 at 1:52 PM

    @33 I think he meant dire financial straits and not financial dire straits. No english classes in the Journalism post-grad program at the University of Colorado?

  37. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 1:58 PM

    @36 – would financial dire straits mean you get your money for nothin’ and your chicks for free?

  38. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 2:09 PM

    @33,36,37
    I assumed he was referring to the band…
    -guy who makes incorrect ridiculous assumptions

  39. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 2:28 PM

    @36, 37, 38

    Kouwe misspelt “straits” as “straights” – that’s what 33 meant.

  40. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 2:59 PM

    funbags

  41. Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2010 at 3:17 PM

    Fergie Ferg and me love you long time. O SNAP

    -guy who secretly rocks to Fergie in his parents basement

  42. Posted by anonymous | May 25, 2010 at 9:42 AM

    some years ago some tittie pics of her came out in one of the brit press, but that seems to have disappeared from the internet.

  43. Posted by volatilitysmile | May 25, 2010 at 12:03 PM

    there’s an act of God, and there’s a disaster waiting to happen. This is not an act of God, ladies. Move on.

  44. Posted by emory stud | May 25, 2010 at 8:15 PM

    Lohan in 10 years

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