This is the follow-up to a story that was first raised in this thread back in June & July 2010.
Sara Al Amoudi: Is she a Saudi princess - or a prostitute? | Mail Online
26 July 2013
The Vamp in the Veil: Is she a Saudi princess - or a prostitute?
As the High Court is gripped by wild tales, what is the truth about Sara Al Amoudi?
She arrives at the High Court in London each morning in a black Rolls-Royce Phantom with a personalised number plate bearing the initials ‘HRH’. As cameras flash, a team of Middle Eastern security guards descend from a Range Rover to help her cross five yards of pavement to the building’s revolving front door. Some are entrusted with her handbag. Others look after her £50,000 diamond-encrusted luxury Vertu mobile phone. A snappily dressed flunky named Mohammed pushes a wheelchair, in which she occasionally chooses to park her derriere.
This regal creature, who invariably has her face veiled, always wears a black burka, sometimes with gold silk stitching or a jewelled trim. Underneath, you can catch a glimpse of designer shoes with five-inch killer heels. Occasionally, she stretches out an arm to reveal a gem-studded Rolex and a wristful of gold jewellery. The apparently wealthy woman calls herself Sara Al Amoudi. She claims to be 31 years old, though others say she’s 43. She has dark brown hair, greenish eyes and appears to wear a lot of make-up. Oh, and for most of the past month, she has been at the centre of one of the most sordid and downright surreal court cases in living memory.
The trial, which has just finished its third week, revolves around an alleged £14 million property fraud in which Ms Al Amoudi — who is widely known as ‘the Vamp in the Veil’ — stands accused of posing as a Saudi princess. She assumed the false identity, according to her opponents, to conduct a ‘very accomplished’ con trick in which a middle-aged couple, one of whom is a friend of the Duke of Gloucester, were duped out of six high-end properties in London’s Knightsbridge. So far, so straightforward.
Yet as the high-stakes civil proceedings have progressed, the ‘Vamp in the Veil’ case has grown increasingly strange and sleazy. On Wednesday, for example, Ms Al Amoudi attempted to prove that she is incredibly wealthy — and presumably therefore does not need to defraud anyone — by insisting, under oath, that she spent almost £1 million on perfume in just a few weeks. ‘I have a problem with shopping,’ she declared. ‘In the past two months, my perfume, only the perfume … $1.4 million (£912,000). I can show you the pictures.’
At the centre of these dizzying claims and counter claims there sits a huge unanswered question: Who exactly is this woman? For, as proceedings have progressed, it has become apparent that no one is entirely sure. For example, several acquaintances have told the court that for years Al Amoudi has described herself as a Saudi royal. She had talked of being the estranged wife of King Abdullah, the country’s monarch. Yet in her own evidence to court this week, Al Amoudi — who has produced no credible birth, marriage or other document confirming her identity — denied having made such a claim.
A former boyfriend once told reporters that she spoke of being Osama Bin Laden’s daughter, claimed to be a friend of Kate Moss, and talked of dating two Hollywood film stars — Irish former hellraiser Colin Farrell and Gladiator star Joaquin Phoenix — as well as former Arsenal footballer Freddie Ljunberg. However, there is no evidence of her having any link to the Bin Laden family, and none of the supposed celebrity acquaintances will admit to having anything to do with her.
Then there is the question of the source of Ms Al Amoudi’s apparent wealth.She says she has existed thanks to a £100,000 weekly allowance, sent by her family in the form of suitcases filled with banknotes. Yet one of the two plaintiffs in the fraud case alleged this week that Al Amoudi earns her crust as a high-class prostitute, who for years worked from a £750,000 flat, with two sisters, yards from Harrods. ‘Far from being Saudi Arabian princesses, they were all prostitutes,’ she said, claiming that the women would trawl Harrods in search of clients. Asked about that allegation in court, Al Amoudi claimed ‘in the name of Allah’ to be ‘a good Muslim woman’.
In court on Tuesday, she claimed that her wealth was genuine, citing her expenditure on perfume as evidence. Yet the very next day, despite her luxury cars and huge entourage of employees, she suddenly declared herself ‘broke’, telling the judge: ‘I don’t have anything!’ It was a typically odd moment in a surreal three days during which Al Amoudi gave evidence to the court. She had agreed to remove her veil in court, but sat behind a wall of document files, so that her face was invisible to most of the onlookers.
Often (but not always) she adopted a heavy Middle Eastern accent. On several occasions, Al Amoudi insisted she could barely understand proceedings and needed to speak through an interpreter — only to break into eloquent English moments later. At one such point, the court dissolved into laughter when the opposition counsel thanked her for suddenly being ‘fluent in English again’.
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This lady really makes me speechless......If she is indeed someone with a noble lineage or born into a rich family, she should better hide her wealth, do not show an exaggerated manner and avoid to behave in dramatic way in public. It seems she has more of a confidence trickster than to be a princess or royal member.
