Sarah Ferguson has not been seen publicly for months. <\/p>\n
But while rumours swirl about the former duchess’s whereabouts and whether she is contemplating a tell-all interview, there are mounting calls for her to give evidence concerning her links to Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n
US lawmakers have repeatedly called for her former husband, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, to answer questions about his links to the late American financier and sex offender. Now Ferguson is being urged to do the same.<\/p>\n
Congressman Suhas Subramanyam, a member of the House Oversight Committee investigating the handling of Epstein’s prosecution, said he now believed she had “information related to the investigation”.<\/p>\n
“Sarah Ferguson should give sworn testimony to our committee,” he said.<\/p>\n
There is no legal mechanism to compel Ferguson to testify in the US.<\/p>\n
But Subramanyam told the BBC that lawmakers would be “happy to work out terms that work for her”, as long as she was under oath.<\/p>\n
Ferguson’s representatives declined to comment.<\/p>\n
Subramanyam’s calls were echoed by Democratic Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, who urged anyone with information of wrongdoing by Epstein and his associates to cooperate in order to ensure justice for the survivors.<\/p>\n
“If Ferguson or any member of their family has such information, our responsibility is to follow the facts wherever they lead,” she told the BBC.<\/p>\n
The family of prominent Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre also said they “strongly believed” the former Duchess of York should go to the US to answer questions.<\/p>\n
“If Ferguson knows anything, she should testify in the United States immediately,” a representative for Giuffre’s brother Sky Roberts told the BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Ferguson has not been seen publicly for months. But while rumours swirl about the former duchess’s whereabouts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-487069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}