A new royal exposé is making explosive claims about Sarah Ferguson, alleging the former Duchess of York carried on a yearslong “friends with benefits” relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs and once brought teenage daughter Princess Eugenie to one of the music mogul’s yacht parties.
The allegations appear in “Entitled,” a new book by royal author Andrew Lownie, with excerpts recently published by the Daily Mail.
According to the book, Ferguson — now 66 — met Combs at a 2002 New York party hosted by Ghislaine Maxwell.
Sources quoted in the book alleged Ferguson and Combs began a private relationship in 2004 that lasted roughly four years. One source described the arrangement as “friends with benefits,” according to the excerpts.
The book also alleges Combs drew inspiration from Ferguson while creating his 2006 fragrance “Unforgivable,” reportedly basing the scent on how she liked men to smell.
According to the claims, the pair traveled together across Europe and Africa and stayed in ultra-luxury hotels during the relationship. One source quoted in the book alleged the two once stayed in a seven-star hotel costing around $68,000 per night.
The allegations extend beyond Ferguson’s relationship with Combs. The book claims Ferguson introduced daughters Princess Eugenie, 36, and Princess Beatrice, 37, to Combs multiple times while they were growing up.
One former royal staff member quoted in the excerpts claimed Eugenie attended a yacht party with her mother when she was 16 years old.
“Sean’s parties were wild,” the staff member alleged in the book excerpt. “The fact that she brought Eugenie around was alarming.”
The report surfaced months after the US Department of Justice released millions of files tied to investigations involving convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Among the documents was a 2010 email exchange in which Ferguson allegedly joked to Epstein that she was “waiting for Eugenie to come back from a shagging weekend!!”
Ferguson shares Eugenie and Beatrice with ex-husband Prince Andrew. Andrew has faced years of scrutiny over his association with Epstein and was previously accused of sexual abuse by the late Virginia Giuffre. He has consistently denied wrongdoing.
Meanwhile, Combs is currently serving a four-year federal prison sentence following a 2025 conviction tied to prostitution-related charges. He is expected to remain incarcerated until 2028.
Representatives for Ferguson, Combs, and Princess Eugenie had not publicly responded to the allegations as of press time.
