Where in the world is Sarah Ferguson? Turns out, she's been hiding out in Austria amid calls for her to come clean about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The former Duchess has been pictured in a small Austrian village known for its local luxury Alpine ski resort, where she is reportedly staying at a £2,000-a-night chalet.
The Sun published pictures of the mother-of-two emerging from a Mercedes people carrier on Wednesday, April 16, wearing a blue coat and keeping a low profile in a white baseball cap.
© Getty ImagesIt has been 213 days since Sarah was last seen in public, when she attended the Duchess of Kent’s funeral inWestminster Cathedral on September 16, 2025.
However, Sarah was last photographed on December 12, 2025 as she arrived at St James's Palace for the christening of her granddaughter, Athena Elizabeth Rose Mapelli Mozzi.
She was seen in the back of a car, but her face was not visible.
© Getty ImagesIn the wake of published correspondence between Sarah and Jeffrey Epstein, the former Duchess of York had been flying under the radar, even before her ex-husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his royal titles by King Charles, and later arrested.
Sarah lost more than just her courtesy title due to Andrew's association with Jeffrey, as well as her own friendship with the convicted sex offender.
© Getty ImagesIn recent months, she has been dropped as patron of multiple charities, including Julia's House, a children's hospice in Corfe Mullen, The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, Prevent Breast Cancer, the Children's Literacy Charity, and the British Heart Foundation.
Days after the U.S. Department of Justice released a new batch of Epstein documents in late January, Sarah's charity, Sarah's Trust, announced that it would be closing for the foreseeable future.
© Karwai Tang/WireImageIn September 2025, it was claimed that emails reportedly sent by Sarah to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein called him a "supreme friend". The Sun and the Mail on Sunday both reported that the email, which dated back to 2011, was sent weeks after the Duchess had publicly distanced herself from the disgraced financier.
At the time, it was reported that Sarah was queried after accepting £15,000 from Jeffrey to help pay off accumulated debts. Shortly after, she gave an interview with the London Evening Standard, where she admitted that accepting his money was "a gigantic error of judgment" and had left her "so contrite I cannot say".
She was quoted as saying: "I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children and know that this was a gigantic error of judgment on my behalf." She added: "Whenever I can, I will repay the money and will have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again."
However, the alleged email was then sent two weeks after the interview, and in which she apologized to Jeffrey for her public comments.
"As you know I did not, absolutely not, say the P word about you," Sarah wrote, as per The Sun. "And I must humbly apologise to you and your heart for that. You have always been a steadfast, generous and supreme friend to me and my family."
Her email continued: "I am apologising to you today for not replying to your email or reaching out to you. I was bedridden with fear. I was paralysed."
© Getty ImagesEpstein was a convicted sex offender who pleaded guilty in 2008 to state charges of soliciting prostitution and procuring a person under 18 for prostitution. He served 13 months in a work-release program as part of a controversial plea deal that granted him immunity from federal prosecution at the time.
He was arrested in July 2019, following an investigation into the 2008 deal, on federal charges of sex trafficking of minors, to which he pleaded not guilty. Epstein died by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 before the case could go to trial.
Ghislaine Maxwell, his known associate, was convicted in 2021 for her role in grooming and trafficking underage girls for Epstein.
