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...next day Khashoggi called his wife Lamia into his all-white bedroom to give her a $1.9 million diamond, emerald-and-ruby necklace. "Oh, Baba!" (Arabic for "father") she exclaimed when she saw it. His ex-wife Soraya, who presented her husband with a $2.5 billion divorce suit seven years ago that was resolved amicably, was also at the house: she got a less expensive ruby necklace. Christmas was relatively quiet this year, said Khashoggi, because the family is still grieving the death of his sister in March...
...children, Khashoggi is not a merchant-statesman, but "Baba." His four sons and one daughter by his first wife, Soraya, are all students in the U.S. He and his second wife, Lamia, have a son Ali, 7, who lives most of the time at their house in Cannes. Although he considers himself a traditional disciplinarian and keeps his children on a budget, they do have fringe benefits: the older boys have been known to impress their dates with a tour of the family plane...
Khashoggi first met Lamia in Milan when she was a 17-year-old named Laura Biancolini. When she married Khashoggi in 1978, she changed her name and converted to the Muslim faith (as had Soraya). Buxom and statuesque with blue, almond-shaped eyes, she is self-possessed and cool. She dresses according to the Joan Collins Dynasty handbook, complete with diamonds and decolletage. With her, as with her husband, more is definitely more. Her idea of casual is to wear a one-inch ruby-and-diamond ring with matching ruby earrings. Her 40- carat diamond wedding ring covers the lower...
...Time Around" sounds like the Beatles's "Norwegian Wood." Like its model, it pushes a sitar or something into prominence, then narrates a man's seduction by some sore of Lamia, from his passive and clouded viewpoint. Once again triple rimes breed doggeral--this time in short, 3-to-a-line phrases like...
Married. Prince Moulay Abdallah, 26, younger brother of Morocco's King Hassan II; and Lamia Solh, 26, golden-haired, Sorbonne-schooled daughter of onetime Lebanese Premier Riad Solh, who was assassinated in 1951; both for the first time; in Rabat, Morocco...