Overview
- Excerpts from Andrew Lownie's updated book, published Friday in the Daily Mail, allege Sarah Ferguson had a years-long 'friends with benefits' relationship with Sean 'Diddy' Combs and took a then‑16‑year‑old Princess Eugenie to one of his yacht parties.
- Juda Engelmayer, speaking for Combs, called the report 'utterly ridiculous gossip,' and a source close to Ferguson labeled it 'fabricated nonsense' and 'blatantly untrue.'
- Lownie told The Times on Saturday that he stands by the account, saying it is sourced to former employees of Combs and people close to Ferguson.
- The book places their first meeting at a 2002 New York party hosted by Ghislaine Maxwell and says they later met in luxury hotels across Europe and Africa, with Combs' 2006 fragrance Unforgivable described as inspired by Ferguson.
- Combs is serving a four-year federal sentence after his October 2025 conviction on two counts of transporting individuals for prostitution, which has renewed scrutiny of past associations linked to the Epstein–Maxwell network.