SARAH FERGUSON'S CHARITY FORMALLY CLOSES AFTER EPSTEIN DOCUMENTS RELEASED

Sarah's Trust, the charity founded by Sarah Ferguson, has formally closed and been marked as "removed" on the public register of charities. The charity announced in February it would close "for the foreseeable future" days after the US Department of Justice released more than three million documents revealing Ferguson's contact with Jeffrey Epstein whilst he was in prison for soliciting sex from a minor. Ferguson's representatives have been contacted for comment on the closure.

The charity was established in 2020 during the Covid pandemic to support frontline work addressing humanitarian and environmental crises, hunger and extreme poverty. It provided aid to NHS, care home and hospice staff and secured funding to send computers to Ukrainian refugees in Poland. In its February statement, Sarah's Trust said the decision to close had been "under discussion and in train for some months", with Ferguson and the board of trustees agreeing "with regret" to the closure. The foundation did not provide further details regarding the decision at the time.

Documents released by the DoJ included emails suggesting Ferguson visited Epstein in Miami with her two daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie, days after his release from prison. One email from Epstein dated 28 July 2009 referenced the visit. Ferguson has previously been dropped by multiple charities over her links with Epstein. In October, she lost her duchess title when her ex-husband, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, relinquished his Duke of York title over his Epstein connections, and she was forced to vacate Royal Lodge, the Windsor mansion they had shared since their 1996 divorce.