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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: theking on December 21, 2021, 04:11:54 PM
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Princess Paid Bodyguard $9M in Blackmail to Keep Their Affair Quiet, but Still Got Busted
The royal couple lived large when they were together, spending more than $2 million in one summer—on strawberries. But then she was blackmailed by her lover and his greedy chums.
(https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2019/07/03/haya_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqNJjoeBT78QIaYdkJdEY4CnGTJFJS74MYhNY6w3GNbO8.jpg)
Money, it seems, really can’t buy love. But in the case of Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, and his sixth wife, Princess Haya, it can sure buy a lot of other stuff, including the silence of her secret lover.
In what is being dubbed as the biggest divorce settlement in U.K. history, the newly divorced sheikh was ordered to pay some $734 million to his estranged wife in a case that has lifted the veil on what the super rich do in their spare time.
Testimony, which can only now be reported under British court rules, suggests that Princess Haya, 47, who happens to be the sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan, “borrowed” a cool $7.5 million from her then 10-year-old daughter’s trust account to pay off her bodyguard, a former British soldier, with whom she was conducting an illicit affair. The princess’ security team had apparently blackmailed her to keep the tryst under wraps. “I was scared and that was the money available in that account,” the princess told the court, according to British press accounts published Tuesday.
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She was better off divorcing sooner with that kind of payout so she can hump whoever she wanted.