{"id":2409354,"date":"2026-05-09T19:27:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2409354"},"modified":"2026-05-09T19:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:27:29","slug":"author-defends-claim-fergie-was-friends-with-benefits-with-p-diddy-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/author-defends-claim-fergie-was-friends-with-benefits-with-p-diddy-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Author defends claim Fergie &#8216;was friends with benefits&#8217; with P Diddy | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A royal author has defended his claim that <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/sarah-ferguson\">Sarah Ferguson<\/a> previously &#8220;had a <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2203499\/fergie-friends-benefits-p-diddy\">sexual relationship&#8221; with the now disgraced rapper<\/a> Sean &#8220;Diddy&#8221; Combs. Andrew Lownie, the author of Entitled, which came out last August and examines the lives of Sarah Ferguson and <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-andrew\">Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a>, has expanded on the allegations in a newly updated edition of his book. An extract of the book was published by the Daily Mail ahead of the publication of the updated paperback edition &#8211; Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York &#8211; on May 21.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The book quotes an associate of the rapper, previously known as P Diddy, who alleged they maintained a sexualised relationship spanning several years. It was claimed that they met at a party in 2002 organised by <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2200809\/ghislaine-maxwell-could-tell-all\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a> and that their sexual relationship started in 2004.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<li>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2203290\/princess-kate-garden-party-pictures\">Princess Kate looks radiant at first Buckingham Palace garden party with young royals<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/royals\/article-15801997\/sarah-ferguson-secret-friends-benefits-p-diddy.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">As claimed by Andrew Lownie in The Daily Mail<\/a>, the rapper was &#8220;obsessed&#8221; with the Royal Family, with a former employee at P Diddy\u2019s Bad Boy Records claiming that the singer would brag about having sex with Ferguson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>According to the source, Combs allegedly once said \u201che could not wait until Fergie\u2019s daughters come of age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>Last year, Combs was found guilty on two counts of transportation for prostitution and sentenced to four years in prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>It is suggested that the duchess and rapper met several times in Europe and Africa, with one source saying: &#8220;They\u2019d meet in luxurious hotels\u2026 They once stayed at a seven-star hotel that was over \u00a350,000 a night. They spared no expense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>A source close to Ferguson has since strongly denied the new claims. They said: &#8220;This is absolute fabricated nonsense, blatantly untrue, and yet another false allegation from him [Lownie].&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>Speaking to <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/royal-family\/article\/sarah-ferguson-p-diddy-relationship-xxrlcb8lr\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Sunday Times<\/a>, Lownie has defended his claim, stating that his evidence came from several people and that he had no doubts about his sources.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He told the newspaper: &#8220;I stand by it, it\u2019s fully sourced with former employees of P Diddy and Sarah Ferguson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The author added that Ferguson had previously lied about breaking contact with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Lownie also said Ferguson introduced her two daughters to Combs multiple times, including during a 2006 yacht weekend when <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/princess-eugenie\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Princess Eugenie<\/a> was 16.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Lownie has written several other books on the British Royal Family, which include Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A royal author has defended his claim that Sarah Ferguson previously &#8220;had a sexual relationship&#8221; with the now disgraced rapper Sean &#8220;Diddy&#8221; Combs. 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