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...dashing Dodi was royalty of a different sort. He was the only son of Mohamed al Fayed and his late first wife Samira Khashoggi, sister of Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. The elder Al Fayed is a self-made billionaire whose wealth is greater than the Queen's. His sprawling empire contains some highly prized European properties. In addition to London's fashionable Harrods department store, he owns the Ritz Hotel of Paris, the British humor magazine Punch, the Fulham soccer club and a $32 million, 190-ft. yacht. The senior Al Fayed also holds a long-term lease...
...actress-activist-marital artist, who is 65, showed off her new au naturel look in Istanbul, in a rare post-brain surgery appearance, at a fund raiser for the children of Chechnya. She spoke briefly in support of Survive: the International Children's Appeal, as a favor to Shahpari Khashoggi, the wife of billionaire Adnan. Although she looked tired and left right after her speech, her spokesperson says she has had no repercussions from the surgery. Next up for Taylor: the 10th anniversary of her Passion perfume...
Zuckerman was not about to take this interloper -- and the threat of heightened competition -- standing up. His newshawks were soon reporting that Hoffenberg once employed a "Mafia leg buster," a commodities swindler and even the discredited former billionaire Adnan Khashoggi. Not only that, Hoffenberg had been involved in questionable business dealings that aroused the interest of federal and state securities regulators...
...natural outgrowth of B.C.C.I.'s dubious and criminal associations. The bank was in a unique position to operate an intelligence- gathering unit because it dealt with such figures as Noriega, Saddam, Marcos, Peruvian President Alan Garcia, Daniel Ortega, contra leader Adolfo Calero and arms dealers like Adnan Khashoggi. Its original purpose was to pay bribes, intimidate authorities and quash investigations. But according to a former operative, sometime in the early 1980s the black network began running its own drugs, weapons and currency deals...
...ADNAN KHASHOGGI...