Fergie passed contact info of her 22-year-old goddaughter to evil Epstein a year after his jail release

SARAH Ferguson introduced her god-daughter to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein a year after his release from jail — and told him: “Over to you!”

Emails show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s ex-wife helped set up a meeting between the disgraced financier and then 22-year-old Poppy Cotterell.

Poppy’s late mother Carolyn was one of Fergie’s ladies in waiting and was godmother to her eldest daughter, Princess Beatrice.

Meanwhile, it emerged that Fergie scolded Epstein for setting up a man she was interested in with dates with a 21-year-old.

The messages were discovered among millions of documents released as part of the Epstein files.

They reveal that Fergie sent Epstein Poppy’s contact details in November 2010, 16 months after he was released from jail in Florida, where he had served 13 months for child-sex crimes.

A short note in the email reads: “Over to you! Lots of love.”

Poppy then met Epstein at his Manhattan home, after which he appeared to consider employing her and even making a donation of around £73,000 in her name to a children’s health charity run by a friend of his called Dr Woodson Merrell.

A few days after the meeting, Epstein’s assistant emailed him: “Poppy Cotterell would love to hear more and be introduced to Dr Merrell and his alternative medicine for children charity.”

The donation is revealed in another message, where Epstein’s assistant wrote to him: “I have put Poppy and Carinda at Dr Merrell’s office in touch with each other.

“Poppy is thrilled. I will follow up to see when the tour will take place . . . also let Dr Merrell’s office know you would like to donate $100,000 in Poppy Cotterell’s name.”

The documents reveal Epstein also offered Poppy a job.

An email from a pal of Epstein’s called Mark Lloyd said: “Hi Jeffrey, I gather you might be employing Poppy Cotterell.”

On the same day, Epstein emailed him to say: “What do you know about Poppy . . . good choice? Not good?”

Lloyd replied: “From what I hear she is both extremely bright and very pretty. I knew her late mother, but do not know her at all.”

Poppy is now 38 and working as a private psychotherapist and yoga teacher in London.

When contacted by The Sun on Sunday about her meeting, she said: “In 2010 at the age of 22, I was working in New York as an intern at an art gallery when I was introduced to Mr Epstein about a possible job looking after his art collection.

“After meeting Mr Epstein he offered me a role, which I declined. I never met him again.

“I was not aware of Dr Woodson Merrell’s charity before I met Mr Epstein, did not request a donation to be made to it, and do not know if a donation was ever made.”

Fergie’s introduction of her goddaughter to a convicted sex offender is the latest in a slew of damaging revelations against her to come from the Epstein files, which appear to show the disgraced financier bankrolled her for years.

Incredibly, she even appears to have taken her two daughters, Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice to meet Epstein at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, a week after his release from jail — where they enjoyed a vegetable lasagna.

The two sisters were yesterday said to be due to have crisis talks with King Charles after their father Andrew’s humiliating arrest.

But sources say there were no plans for them to meet in person.

Neither Andrew nor Sarah has publicly commented since the latest release of damning emails.

They show Fergie had a close and often grovelling relationship with Epstein, begging him for money, including £20,000 to pay her rent, and even asking him to marry her.

Fergie, who divorced Andrew in 1996, wrote to Epstein in one January 2010 email: “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.”

However, two months earlier she had scolded him for setting up a romantic interest on dates with a 21-year-old woman.

She was seeing Norwegian businessman Geir Frantzen at the time.

In an email dated November 25, 2009, she asked Epstein: “You are setting up my Geir with dates . . . Jeffrey . . . Is there no loyalty!! What does she look like?”

She quickly followed up with another email: “And how old?” Epstein said she was 21 and tried to calm her down, insisting: “This is for play, you are for serious.”

Fergie replied: “But nobody takes me seriously. Men only want to play!”

And she added: “You are supposed to promote ME. Somebody has to. A girl has needs!”

She later wrote: “I am just sensitive. Don’t worry.”

Fergie suggested that Geir’s date was “probably blonde, bright, smart, and perfect” and asked the sex offender: “What am I doing wrong. That a guy like Geir does not want to be with me?? And don’t ask him? Or I will kill you.”

Epstein replied: “You are great, when are you coming to visit, we will discuss in person”.

There is no suggestion that Geir met the woman in question.

The former Duchess of York remains in hiding following her ex-husband’s arrest on Thursday.

Fergie, 66, left Royal Lodge in Windsor at the same time Andrew was forced into his life in exile in Sandringham three weeks ago.

Police searches of the property are due to continue until tomorrow.

Some of Fergie’s possessions could be examined as part of the search.