EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Ferguson Lover 'Takes Secrets of Royal Family's Epstein Ties to Grave'
Sarah Ferguson's lover has allegedly taken secrets about the royal family's Epstein ties to the grave.
Aug. 24 2026, Published 6:30 a.m. ET
The death of Sarah Ferguson's multimillionaire former lover Paddy McNally comes as the body count associated with notorious s-- trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who died under murky circumstances, continues to mount, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
McNally, who has never been formally linked directly to the dead pedophile, romanced the former Duchess of York in the early 1980s. He died at age 88 just months after Fergie sought refuge at his $19million ski resort chalet in Verbier, Switzerland, following her eviction from the crown-owned Royal Lodge along with her ex-hubby, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Investigator Warns of Epstein Web
Paddy McNally died at 88, months after former lover Sarah Ferguson stayed at his Swiss chalet.
Insiders believe McNally's close association to 66-year-old Fergie may have exposed him to royal secrets and the York family's ties to billionaire Epstein, who was found hanged in 2019 at age 66 inside a New York City jail cell while awaiting his s-- trafficking trial.
"There were a lot of people entrapped and entangled through Epstein's web, and many of those people are gone now – dead," private investigator Ed Opperman tells RadarOnline.com, referring to McNally, the 24th corpse in the body count.
Just last month, Daniel Siad – a 68-year-old Frenchman accused of being Epstein's No. 2 recruiter of s-- slaves and models in Europe – was found dead inside his home in Colombes, France, after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped 3.5million pages of FBI investigation files showing his name more than 1,000 times.
As RadarOnline.com has reported, Fergie lost her coveted courtesy title of duchess when Andrew was stripped of his royal honors by his brother King Charles amid growing outrage over the now ex-duke's links to Epstein.
Fergie’s Epstein Ties Face Scrutiny
Ferguson may inherit part of McNally's fortune, according to the report.
The divorced couple, who lived under the same roof, were unceremoniously tossed from Royal Lodge shortly before Andrew was arrested, questioned and released without being charged amid a sweeping U.K. police investigation sparked by DOJ documents suggesting he may have shared confidential information obtained during his tenure as his country's trade envoy.
It is believed that cash-hungry Fergie – who began a three-year relationship with widower McNally at age 23 while working as his children's nanny before her 1986 wedding to Andrew – may inherit part of the dead tycoon's $800million fortune.
Fergie was also extremely close to Epstein, and DOJ emails revealed she continued communicating with the creep after his 2008 conviction in Florida for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.
However, the former royal claims she only sent the fawning messages to defuse the moneyman's threat to ruin her family.
Questions Swirl Over McNally’s Knowledge
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Private investigator Ed Opperman cited McNally while discussing deaths linked by the report to Jeffrey Epstein.
Other prominent figures in the Epstein body count include Siad's fellow modeling recruiter Jean-Luc Brunel, who was found hanged in his Paris jail cell at age 75 in 2022.
An insider asked: "The question is: Just what did McNally actually know?"
