In 2020 he was convicted, along with several other businessmen, including Remus Truică, for influence peddling, money laundering and complicated bribery cases between the years of 2006 and 2013.

In 1921, Crown Prince Carol married Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark, and they had a son who became King Michael I of Romania.

He was thirteen years old when his father married an American woman and the family moved to London to be nearer to European royalty.

[12] In 1996, at Cașin Church, Hohenzollern married Lia Georgia Triff, a native of Dearborn, Michigan, who had previously divorced lawyer Melvin Belli.

[2][12][14] The couple have one child, Carol Ferdinand; the infant was baptised in 2010, with President Traian Băsescu taking on the role of godfather.

[15] On 17 December 2020, the High Court of Cassation and Justice sentenced him to 3 years and 4 months of prison, in the Băneasa Farm trial.

[16] Bucharest Police were in the process of obtaining a European arrest warrant and released a statement: "Regarding the person sentenced to imprisonment, given that he was not found at home, the prosecution procedure begins.

[33][34][35] Hohenzollern greeted the decision "with enthusiasm and responsibility",[35] promising "many trials" to sort out inheritance issues and vowing to donate his share of Peleș Castle to the Romanian government, should he obtain it.

Writing in The Jerusalem Post, historian Jean Ancel dismissed Hohenzollern's claims and praised the wartime actions of the king and his mother, Queen Helen.