In an undated video promoting the Paracelsus clinic, Ferguson, 66, described the lakeside center as \u201ca safe haven, a nurturing oasis, a place where I can feel not judged,\u201d according to a video played by The Royalist podcast<\/a>. She expressed deep gratitude to the founder of the clinic, which offers different month-long recovery programs for ultra-wealthy clients, for \u201cgiving me safe harbor in the storms of life.\u201d<\/p>\n Right now, Ferguson is indeed facing a great deal of judgement over her friendship with Epstein, which continued after she publicly claimed she had cut ties with the late financier and alleged sex trafficker more than a decade ago, according to emails in the Department of Justice\u2019s recently released investigative files on Epstein. There\u2019s also pressure on King Charles to demand that his former sister-in-law make herself available for questioning by authorities over what she may know about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s business dealings with Epstein or about the convicted pedophile\u2019s alleged trafficking of underaged girls and women.<\/p>\n Ferguson is viewed \u201cas a significant witness in the widening misconduct probe\u201d involving Andrew \u2014 and may actually already talked to authorities before or after her time in Zurich, entertainment and gossip reporter Rob Shuter wrote on his Naughty But Nice Substack, citing multiple high-level sources.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Whether or not Ferguson is currently in the United Arab Emirates, she also has spent the past couple months \u201csofa-surfing on a global scale,\u201d the Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n Ferguson was last seen in public on Dec. 12 at St. James\u2019s Palace in London to attend the christening of her granddaughter Athena, the Daily Mail reported.<\/a> It\u2019s known that she and Andrew didn\u2019t spend Christmas as usual with their daughters Beatrice and Eugenie, who opted to instead celebrate the holiday with Charles and the rest of the royal family \u2014 even after the king formally stripped their father of his prince title and their parents of their Duke and Duchess of York titles.<\/p>\n The Daily Mail reported that Ferguson fled the U.K. after Christmas and checked into Paracelsus. She also may have gotten her estimated $600,000, month-long stay for free, given her past promotional efforts on the clinic\u2019s behalf, journalists Tom Sykes and Paula Froelich said on Sykes\u2019 The Royalist podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n At the clinic, clients have access to a team of experts, including doctors, therapists and nutritionists, who Ferguson once told the Telegraph, \u201ccreate a space where you can feel safe, understood and fully supported.\u201d<\/p>\n The clinic specializes in the treatment of a number of conditions, including \u201caddiction, burnout, depression, anxiety and trauma\u201d and charges around $150,000 for a customized, three-day \u201ccomprehensive check-up,\u201d the Daily Mail reported. Its clients include \u201ccelebrities, oligarchs, and royalty,\u201d who can stay in a penthouse with Lake Zurich views and have access to concierge and limousine services as well as a personal chef and butler, the Daily Mail also said.<\/p>\n Questions about Ferguson\u2019s whereabouts followed Andrew\u2019s arrest last Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office while he served as a British trade envoy between 2001 and 2011. Andrew became the first senior member of the royal family to be arrested in 400 years after he was taken into custody at his new home at Wood Farm on the king\u2019s private Sandringham estate northeast of London. Police also have conducted searches at Royal Lodge, the 30-room mansion in Windsor that he shared with Ferguson up the friendly ex-spouses were officially evicted last year.<\/p>\n The recently released Epstein files show that Ferguson, known for profligacy and always being cash-strapped, relied on the accused sex trafficker to loan her money, help get her out of debt, fund at least one of her business schemes and help her secure commercial brand deals<\/a> with Target and NBC. The emails also reveal that he paid for her and Beatrice and Eugene<\/a> to fly from London to Miami to visit him in July 2009, shortly after he was released from jail after serving time for soliciting a minor for prostitution and registering as a sex offender. In a series of affectionate emails to Epstein, Ferguson called him \u201cthe brother I have always wished for\u201d and said to him, \u201cjust marry me.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, it\u2019s possible that Ferguson is being bankrolled by multi-millionaires in the Middle East, according to royal author Andrew Lownie, who wrote \u201cEntitled,\u201d a best-selling book about the scandal-hit former Duke and Duchess of York.<\/p>\n \u201cIn Britain, neither Sarah nor Andrew will be socially accepted again, whatever they try to do or wherever they go,\u201d Lownie said, according to the Daily Mail. \u201cBut in the Middle East, no one will care about what they have got up to. There are people there \u2014 royalty, politicians and business types \u2014 whom Sarah can quite happily sponge off and who will be happy to bankroll both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n After Ferguson\u2019s stay at Paracelsus, she reportedly traveled to the Middle East, specifically to Doha, the capital of Qatar, to attend an Art Basel event in Eugenie, the Daily Mail said. After that, she may have accompanied Beatrice\u2019s husband, Edo Mapelli-Mozzi, as he attended a design conference in Palm Beach, Florida. The Daily Mail reported she then spent time at a French ski resort to \u201cget her head together\u201d with friends and then returned to Switzerland, to join Eugenie and her family on their ski holiday in Gstaad.<\/p>\n![\"FILE](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Justice_Department_Jeffrey_Epstein_14041.jpg\")
FILE \u2013 Documents that were included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files are photographed Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo\/Jon Elswick, File)\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"Police](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26051500583683.jpg\")
Police officers patrol around the Sandringham Royal Estate in Sandringham, England, Friday, Feb. 20, 2026 after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested and held for hours by British police on suspicion of misconduct in public office related to his links to Jeffrey Epstein.(AP Photo\/Maja Smiejkowska)\u00a0<\/p>\n