Posted by Martha on October 5, 2009, 9:06 pm, in reply to "She famously bounced back from vast debts ... but is Fergie broke again?"
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: Some quotes:
:
:
: According to one royal source, Fergie has
: approached Buckingham Palace for financial
: help. The response from the Queen was said
: to have been: 'Just [tell her] to stop
: spending.'
:
: The suggestion that Fergie has gone cap in
: hand to the Palace was dismissed as 'utter
: nonsense' by her side.
:
:
: And:
:
: Her profile enabled Fergie to endorse a
: range of jewellery, for example, even
: perfumed candles with gift packaging richly
: embossed with a regal 'S' and a superimposed
: crown.
:
: 'We are no longer selling that range,' said
: a representative for the company that once
: stocked them. As for the jewellery, the
: supplier of the items later went bust.
:
: So to her money-spinning books.
:
: Or are they? Certainly her autobiography, My
: Story, published in 1997 at the height of
: her notoriety, brought in an estimated £2
: million. How much of that was used to pay
: off some of her debts, though?
:
: Since then, she has brought out more than a
: dozen books. How much do you think they
: grossed? A little over £127,000, figures
: supplied by the publishing industry show -
: and that's before the publisher takes a cut.
:
: Her self-help book What I Know Now: Simple
: Lessons Learned The Hard Way, went on sale
: in 2003. Unfortunately, only 802 people have
: benefited from her advice in six years.
: Meanwhile, the latest in the children's
: Little Red series, Little Red To The Rescue,
: which came out last month, has so far sold
: 58 copies.
:
:
: And:
:
: The following anecdote of her chaotic
: lifestyle sums up Fergie.
:
: A close friend at the time takes up the
: story. 'I found out Sarah owed £340 to a
: lady who did inexpensive clothing
: alterations for her from a dry cleaners in
: the Gloucester Road area in West London.
:
: 'The woman did a lot of work for Sarah -
: taking in dresses when she lost weight, then
: letting them out again if she put on a few
: pounds.
:
: 'But she always had a problem getting paid.
: So I rang Sarah's secretary and said
: "Get her to phone me", which
: Fergie duly did.
:
: 'I explained to her that if she wanted to
: keep my friendship, she had to do three
: things: (1) send the alterations lady the
: cash by messenger; (2) send her a letter
: saying how sorry she was; and (3) send her a
: box of chocolates.
:
: 'The woman phoned me the next day to tell me
: she had received all three, except she got
: flowers instead of chocolates.
:
: 'Sarah was working for Weight-Watchers at
: the time and she felt they should be paying
: the bill for the alterations.' This may
: explain the chaotic mix-up.
:
: ----------------------
:
: She thought WW should pay to have her
: clothes altered when her weight yo-yoes up
: and down??????
:
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I hope this is just the press over-reacting and that she's not in financial trouble.
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