Book Alleges Ferguson Had Affair With Sean Combs

Royal biographer Andrew Lownie has alleged in the expanded paperback edition of his 2025 book "Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York" that Sarah Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, maintained a "friends with benefits" sexual relationship with Sean "Diddy" Combs beginning in 2004.

According to the book, Ferguson and Combs first met at a 2002 party hosted by Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of the late Jeffrey Epstein. Lownie, citing former employees of Combs and Ferguson as sources, claims the pair met multiple times at luxury hotels in Europe and Africa, including one seven-star property costing 50,000 pounds per night. Combs reportedly bragged to colleagues about the relationship and once remarked that he "could not wait until Fergie's daughters come of age," according to a former Bad Boy Records employee. The book also states that Combs drew inspiration from Ferguson for his 2006 perfume "Unforgivable," describing it as reflecting how she liked a man to smell.

Lownie further alleges that Ferguson introduced her daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, to Combs on multiple occasions, including a 2006 yacht party weekend attended by Eugenie, who was 16 at...