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An undercover journalist caught Sarah Ferguson, onetime member of the Royal family, on tape offering access to her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, for £500,000 (close to $720,000). "If you want to meet him in your business, look after me and he'll look after you ... you'll get it back tenfold," Ferguson, 50, said while accepting $40,000 as a deposit. Buckingham Palace denied knowledge of any such dealings, and the scandal-prone redhead had to publicly apologize. On the upside, it did secure her a berth on Oprah, where she explained that she'd been drinking.