Sarah’s Trust, the charity founded by Sarah Ferguson, has been formally wound up and now carries a “removed” status on the official register of charities. The closure was first announced in February, coming just days after the US Department of Justice published a trove of documents that revealed a closer relationship between the former Duchess of York and the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein than had previously been understood.GB News has approached Ms Ferguson’s representatives for comment regarding the charity’s formal dissolution. Being named in the DoJ files does not imply any wrongdoing.Among the more than three million files made public by the DoJ earlier this year were emails that appeared to demonstrate Ms Ferguson had been in communication with Epstein while he was serving a prison sentence for soliciting sex from a minor.Sarah’s Trust, the charity founded by Sarah Ferguson, has been formally wound up and now carries a ‘removed’ status on the official register of charities | CHARITY COMMISSIONThe documents suggested a significantly closer bond between the pair than had previously come to light.In one email from 2009, Ms Ferguson described the late sex offender as “the brother I have always wished for”.The correspondence also indicated she had brought her daughters to a lunch with Epstein in Miami, just days after he had been released from custody.Sarah’s Trust was established in 2020 with a mission centred on backing frontline and grassroots efforts tackling humanitarian and environmental crises, food insecurity, and the root causes of extreme poverty.Sarah’s Trust was established in 2020 with a mission centred on backing frontline and grassroots efforts tackling humanitarian and environmental crises, food insecurity, and the root causes of extreme poverty | GETTYA spokesman for the foundation said in February that the decision to shut down had followed “some months” of internal deliberation.No further explanation was offered at the time as to why the charity was ceasing operations.The organisation’s website had described its work as “dedicated to supporting frontline, grassroots work to address the humanitarian and environmental crisis, the hunger crisis and issues perpetuating cycles of extreme poverty”.Several other charities have already dropped Ms Ferguson as a consequence of her connections to Epstein.Her situation worsened further in October, when she lost the duchess title she had continued to use following her 1996 divorce from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, after he gave up his Duke of York title over his own associations with the convicted sex offender.She was also required to leave Royal Lodge, the Windsor mansion where the former couple had continued to reside together despite having separated three decades earlier.Ms Ferguson’s representatives have not responded to earlier media requests for comment on the DoJ documents.