F. article Daily Telegraph 25 Sep 09

The Duchess of York, who has been taken to court by three companies in the past year over £21,539 in unpaid bills, has come up with a cunning plan to replenish her coffers.

Sarah Ferguson - Duchess of York aims to become rappers? delight

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The former wife of the Duke of York has disclosed that she is involved in negotiations with Tommy Hilfiger, the American designer favoured by rap musicians, about promoting his outfits.

"Tommy Hilfiger has a line of clothes he wants me to work with, but so far the deal hasn't been set," she said at the Important Dinner for Women, in New York, at which Sarah Brown, the wife of the Prime Minister, was one of the speakers. Fergie raised eyebrows at the event, at which Queen Rania of Jordan and Nicole Kidman were also guests, when she said she might

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appear on the television shopping channel QVC as part of the deal with Hilfiger.

Court papas showed earlier this month that the Duchess, pictured, who starred in a television documentary about the problems of life on council estates, had owed money to an accountancy firm, a solicitor and a family-run printing company. She is understood to have settled the outstanding bills.

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