Sarah Ferguson charity closure has ended with Sarah's Trust formally wound up and marked removed from the public register of charities. The charity, which she established in 2020, had already said in February that it would close for the foreseeable future.
That closure now leaves Sarah's Trust off the register, ending a vehicle that said it supported frontline, grassroots work on humanitarian and environmental crisis, hunger and extreme poverty. The move follows renewed scrutiny of Ferguson's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein after more than three million documents were released by the DoJ earlier this year.
Sarah's Trust and 2020
Sarah's Trust was set up in 2020, giving Ferguson a public-facing charity tied to work on crisis relief and poverty. Its removal from the register shows the organization has gone beyond announcing a pause and has completed the legal wind-up process that ends its formal charity status.
In February, the charity said it would close for the foreseeable future. A spokesperson for the foundation said the decision had come after some months of discussion, but did not provide further details at the time. For readers who relied on the charity's work, the practical change is simple: the organization no longer appears as an active charity on the public register.
DoJ files and Epstein in Miami
The closure came days after new details emerged about Ferguson's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Emails appearing in the released material showed Ferguson was in contact with Epstein while he was in prison for soliciting sex from a minor, and the files also suggested she had been closer to him than previously thought.
The same material showed Ferguson praising Epstein in 2009 as “the brother I have always wished for.” It also suggested she took her daughters to lunch with Epstein in Miami days after his release from prison. Being named in the documents does not indicate wrongdoing, but the papers added fresh pressure around her public role.
Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten
Ferguson has already been dropped by multiple charities over her Epstein links. In October, she lost her duchess title when Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor relinquished his Duke of York title over his links with Epstein, and she was forced to move out of Royal Lodge in Windsor.
Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor lived together at Royal Lodge despite having divorced in 1996. The end of Sarah's Trust closes another part of the public work associated with Ferguson, but the documents that drove the scrutiny remain part of the record, and the files continue to shape how her past ties are read now.
