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...Going Once Display of garish wealth or shopping opportunity of the century? Call it what you will, but the auction in Brunei to help pay off the massive debts of the Sultan's naughty playboy brother, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, was the tackiest display of useless extravagance ever assembled. If your shopping list included gold-plated toilet-brush holders, 8,500 slabs of Italian marble and an attack-helicopter simulator, you were in luck. The citizens of Brunei were not: in a victory for good taste, the auction raised a paltry $8 million...
...world's biggest bank balance, several luxury hotels and two wives. But is the SULTAN OF BRUNEI also, well, a party guy? Former Miss USA SHANNON MARKETIC has filed suit against the Sultan, his brother Prince Jefri Bolkiah and a Los Angeles talent agency after she took a trip with a friend to the tiny province that borders Malaysia to make what she thought were promotional appearances for a fee of $21,200 a week. Instead, she says, she found she was expected to go to all-night parties and make herself available for sex. She had to hand over...
...government sources, speaking on condition they not be identified, confirmed a report in The Los Angeles Times on Saturday that the ruler of oil-rich Brunei, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, agreed to give millions of dollars to the Contras in Central America...
...could not be learned whether Secretary of State George P. Shultz personally discussed the aid with Bolkiah on June 24 when they met at the sultan's 1700 room-marble and glass palace on a hilltop in Brunei's capital, Bandar Seri Begawan...
...idea to ask Bolkiah for money came from Elliot Abrams '69, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, who provided the number of a Swiss bank account where the funds were to be sent, The Times said...