Dahl 'got letters from death row inmate'

Sophie Dahl has revealed that she once received a business proposal from an inmate on death row.

The former supermodel, who is married to singer Jamie Cullum, said that she was contacted by a convicted criminal in a Texas jail asking her to found a company with him.

However, Dahl admitted that she was too unnerved to ever respond to the enquiry, telling Vogue: "I ended up on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice website because I received a letter out of the blue, via an agent, from a guy in jail - housed in a Texan facility.

"What he wrote was in equal parts unsettling, contradictory and heartbreaking, a personal account that stayed in my thoughts for a long time. I don't know why he picked me, and it took me a long time to decide not to write back."

Dahl added: "The thing he was proposing (an entrepreneurial business plan on his part) would, I think, have compromised my safety. It would have been a bit mad to comply with it. I thought about anonymously sending him some books instead.

'Then I got neurotic and wondered how many other young women in New York he had written to, and I figured that if it were none, he'd know for certain I was the correspondent. Even in the face of a plain brown package, the New York postage would be the giveaway.

"Besides, the deciding factor in all this was that I looked him up on the correctional facility website, discovered that the crimes he was in prison for were pretty hard to get past and that he was also on death row."

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