Charities cut ties with UK royal for calling Epstein 'friend'
Seven charities have cut ties with the Duchess of York after a 2011 email to Jeffrey Epstein surfaced. In it, she apologised for publicly criticising him and praised him as a "steadfast, generous and supreme friend". This contrasted with her public denunciation of Epstein weeks earlier, where she called their association "gigantic error of judgement", saying Epstein was "rightly jailed".