Monday 23 February 2026 1:07 pm  |  Updated:  Monday 23 February 2026 1:09 pm

Inside Sarah Ferguson’s £100k-a-week rehab with lakeside apartment and round-the-clock therapy

By: Anna Moloney

Deputy Comment and Features Editor

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As Sarah Ferguson checks out of the world’s most expensive rehab clinic, we revisit what makes Paracelsus a perfect retreat for the publicly disgraced.

Where do you go when you’ve been publicly disgraced? For Sarah Ferguson, it’s Paracelsus Recovery, a £100,000-a-week rehab clinic nestled on Lake Zurich in Switzerland.

According to reports in the Mail on Sunday, the former Duchess checked into the luxurious clinic after Christmas, following revelations about her ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and stayed at the centre until the end of January.

The clinic signs NDAs with all clients, and has a strict policy not to comment on any queries about patients.

Ferguson, however, has been open about staying at the clinic multiple times in the past, and even filmed testimonials for Paracelsus’s official Youtube channel, describing it as a place where she feels “not judged” and thanking it for giving her “a safe harbour in the storms of life”.

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So what’s the clinic actually like? City AM visited last year for a taste of the ultra-exclusive Paracelsus experience. Read on to see what Anna Moloney thought after her two-night check in.

Inside the most expensive rehab clinic in the world

Upon checking in at £10,000-a-night rehab centre Paracelsus Recovery, I find myself transported into a world that revolves entirely around me. Bequeathed with a 15-member entourage of therapists, clinicians, masseuses and personal chefs, I am part of a collective powered by a single goal: my betterment. 

If you can think of a celebrity who’s been to rehab, they’re not nearly rich enough for Paracelsus Recovery, the most expensive rehab clinic in the world where discretion is everything. CEOs, politicians and even royalty reside among its top-secret alumni.

Unlike other rehabilitation centres where group therapy can be a key component of treatment, patients at Paracelsus Recovery are treated alone; after all, what common ground could a young Saudi princess, an 80-year-old Hong Kong billionaire and the American grandkid of a famous actor possibly have? The clinic can take up to four patients at a time (provided one stays at the neighbouring hotel), but schedules are carefully managed to ensure paths never cross. Staying there, you can allow yourself to believe the clinic is devoted only to you.

“Obviously we’ve signed an NDA with every single person who has face time with a client,” says Jan Gerber, the founder and chief exec of Paracelsus Recovery. “And Switzerland has some of the strictest medical secrecy laws in the world. Prison terms are quite heavy. There have been no leaks.”

The £10,000 a day rehab centre

Prices vary depending on package, but ‘patients’ or ‘clients’ (the website flits between these terms) can expect to stump up between £86,000 and £108,000 a week to stay, with people typically encouraged to stay for a minimum of four to six weeks. Shorter programmes........

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