The price for a few minutes with the Prince Andrew, Duke of York? Apparently, it’s $717,649, or 500,000 pounds, if you’re dealing with his ex-wife, the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson.

Fergie is reported to be “devastated and regretful” after she was secretly filmed by an undercover News of the World reporter posing as a businessman where she allegedly took $40,000 in cash as a down payment for access to her ex.

Unknown to the Prince, Fergie PROMISED to introduce us to him, CLAIMED he’d help fix lucrative deals and DEMANDED a cut of all profits. She vowed: “Look after me and he’ll look after you. . . you’ll get it back tenfold. I can open any door you want.”

After a pile of money is shown on a coffee table, Fergie puts her head in her hands and then moments later, takes away a black computer bag stuffed with the cash, which is described as a fee for “doing the big deal with Andrew.”

Behind her ex’s back, Fergie claimed to have discussed it with him and lied: “Andrew said to me, ‘Tell him £500,000.’ He knows that he’s had to underwrite me up to now because I’ve got no money. So if you want to meet him in your business, look after me and he’ll look after you. . . you’ll get it back tenfold.”

The reporter also claimed she invited him and any friends he could drum up to sit at her table with Princess Beatrice and Sir Elton John at the charity Butterfly Ball in London on Thursday. Fergie later apologized and admitted she was devastated after being caught in the sting operation by the newspaper. In a statement issued last night, she says she ‘deeply regrets the situation and the embarrassment caused.’

[News of the World]