- Jonathan Aitken's Daughter Petrina Khashoggi
- Adnan Khashoggi's Son Ali Khashoggi
- Adnan Khashoggi's Son Omar Khashoggi
The secret wedding of Jonathan Aitken's daughter is the latest twist in their family's remarkable saga
It is the latest twist in the lives of the three Aitken sisters: Alexandra, her twin sister Victoria, and their half-sister Petrina Khashoggi – the latter's position in the family became clear only. Download this stock image: SOCIAL Aitken/Khashoggi - G4H810 from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors. Petrina Khashoggi, daughter of Soraya Khashoggi by Jonathan Aitken (then married to Lolicia), has dated a long string of aristocrats - Viscount Anson (the relationship soon ended), Lord Edward Spencer- Churchill (the relationship has ended), and others.
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Soraya Khashoggi is the wife of Adnan Khashoggi. Also known as Sandra Daly, Sandra Patricia Jarvis-Daly; spouses: Marriage with Adnan Khashoggi since 1961; Domestic partnership with Jonathan Aitken; parent of. Petrina Khashoggi; Mohammed Khashoggi; Khalid Khashoggi; Hussein Khashoggi; Omar Khashoggi; Nabila Khashoggi; Online dictionaries. She subsequently converted to Islam and took the name Soraya before she became pregnant with Khashoggi’s children. It later transpired the Conservative MP Jonathan Aitken had fathered at least one of them. ‘Khashoggi was 5ft 4in tall and weighed about 200lbs, but he somehow seemed robust more than flabby,’ Kessler told me.
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Alexandra Aitken pays her respects at the Sikh shrine the Golden Temple in Amritsar
It is the latest twist in the lives of the three Aitken sisters: Alexandra, her twin sister Victoria, and their half-sister Petrina Khashoggi – the latter's position in the family became clear only when she was 18 and a DNA test revealed that she was conceived during an affair between Aitken and Soraya Khashoggi, the ex-wife of the millionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. Ali Aitken has 'never exactly been a PG Tips kind of girl', as one commentator put it. She has been many things: a model, a failing actress, a writer, and a somewhat-unconventional sculptress (emailing friends asking them to post her their eyelashes, with which to make a model).
She grew up in a life of privilege. With their father serving as a Cabinet minister for much of their early life, Alexandra and Victoria enjoyed the double luxury of an imposing townhouse in Westminster and a home in Kent. Their mother, the glamorous Lolicia Aitken, sent them to separate schools in an attempt to encourage their individuality. Alexandra went to King's Canterbury, while Victoria enrolled at Switzerland's exclusive Aiglon College before returning to board at Rugby School. When home for the holidays, the girls enjoyed the luxury of a live-in staff, including butler.
Their father's trial soon put an end to all that. Out of a job and with legal costs of £2.4m, Aitken was declared bankrupt. When he was dispatched to Belmarsh high-security prison, the bailiffs wasted little time. Many of the family's possessions were seized, and their two homes promptly sold.
Victoria, dragged into the public eye after giving evidence for her father, swiftly swapped the UK for life in the US. Her mother, meanwhile, moved to Switzerland, shifting between Zürich, Monte Carlo, Paris, New York and Tibet, unable to return to the UK for fear of being charged with perverting the course of justice.
Alexandra remained in London, carving out a new identity as a socialite. She attended parties, contributed to Tatler, and became part of the early-noughties Sloaney set which also included Lady Victoria Hervey and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. Aged 21, along with Kashoggi, she posed naked in GQ magazine, revelling in her 'posh totty' status.
And then, in 2002, things changed. In the first of her reinventions, Alexandra declared herself done with parties. Gone were the champagne flutes, and in their place the earnest insistence that she all she wanted was to be a serious actress. Surreptitious sniggers were silenced, temporarily, after she won a part in the adaptation of Ian McEwan's Atonement. When it was revealed that she contributed only two lines ('refrigerator magnate', infamously), those titters returned. Eventually, she left London, moving to Hollywood to offer psychic readings ('the world is going to get faster', she explained in a workshop titled 'Accessing Time Portals to Abundance') and teach yoga.
Jonathan Aitken's Daughter Petrina Khashoggi
If acting didn't pan out for Alexandra, Victoria's creative aspirations fared little better. Her contribution to rap music remains the stuff of legend. Initially poised to follow her father into politics – she enrolled at Washington DC's prestigious Georgetown University, and is said to have encouraged Euan Blair in his internship with Republican congressman David Dreier – an appearance on the ITV documentary Young, Posh and Loaded led to the beginning of an ill-fated music career.
Under the tutelage of the producer Larry Dvoskin, and styling herself as 'Jenny from the Yacht', Victoria released songs detailing her move from 'riches to rags'. 'Living off daddy's plastic was so fantastic,' she chanted in one self-penned tune. 'Just got a j-o-b, what a misery.'
Long after her sister abandoned her film career, Victoria continued her attempts to enter the music business. Rap has since been replaced with a preference for dance music; alas, she remains off the books of any labels. But it is Khashoggi's whose tale has been the most tumultuous. While the twins embraced the news of their shared paternity with Khashoggi enthusiastically, Khashoggi was, claimed Alexandra at the time, more reticent.
Despite a relatively successful career as a model – she was on the elite Storm model agency's books – Khashoggi struggled with depression and addiction. In 2001, she was admitted to Surrey's genteel rehab clinic, Farm Place, complaining of 'too much partying'. While a friend footed the £2,000-a-week bill, Khashoggi recovered from her troubles. Three years later, however, she entered rehab for a second time – this time for love addiction. Who'd want to be the offspring of someone famous?
In India, Alexandra is over the moon with married life. She has adopted the moniker 'Harvinder', and plans to remain in the country to start a family – an unconventional life plan, but one that has received her father's blessing. 'Honestly, I'm just happy to see her so happy,' Jonathan Aitken insisted yesterday. 'It's really wonderful.'
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The full interview appears in the current edition of Hello! magazine
Adnan Khashoggi (Arabic: عدنانخاشقجي, born 25 July 1935) is a Saudi Arabian arms-dealer and businessman. He is also noted for his engagements with high society in both the Occident and Arabic-speaking worlds, and for his involvement in the Iran–Contra and Lockheed bribery scandals, and numerous other affairs. He was considered the richest man in the world in the 1980s.
Khashoggi was born in Mecca, the son of Muhammad Khashoggi, a medical doctor who was King Abdel Aziz Al Saud's personal physician. His family is of Turkish ancestry. The family moved from the Iberian Peninsula and settled in Saudi Arabia. Adnan Khashoggi's sister Samira Khashoggi Fayed married Mohammed Al-Fayed and was the mother of Dodi Fayed.
Khashoggi was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria, Egypt, California State University, Chico, Ohio State University, and Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA. Khashoggi later left his studies in order to seek his fortune in business.
Business Career
Khashoggi headed a company called Triad Holding Company, which among other things built the Triad Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, which later went bankrupt. He was famed as an arms dealer, brokering deals between US firms and the Saudi government, most actively in the 1960s and 1970s. In the documentary series The Mayfair Set, Saudi author Said Aburish states that one of Adnan's first weapons deals was providing David Stirling with weapons for a covert mission in Yemen during the Aden Emergency in 1963. Among his overseas clients were defense contractors Lockheed Corporation (now Lockheed Martin Corporation), Raytheon, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation and Northrop Corporation (which have now merged into Northrop Grumman).
Between 1970 and 1975, Lockheed paid Khashoggi $106 million in commissions. His commissions started at 2.5% + and eventually rose to as much as 15%. Khashoggi 'became for all practical purposes a marketing arm of Lockheed. Adnan would provide not only an entree but strategy, constant advice, and analysis,' according to Max Helzel, then vice president of Lockheed's international marketing.
A shrewd businessman, he covered his financial tracks by establishing front companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein to handle his commissions as well as developing contacts with notables such as CIA officers James H. Critchfield and Kim Roosevelt and US businessman Bebe Rebozo, a close associate of former US President Richard Nixon. He was also involved in diamond mining in the Central African Empire, working closely with Emperor Bokassa. His yacht, the Nabila, was the largest in the world at the time and was used in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again.
Personal Life
In the 1960s he married 20-year old Englishwoman Sandra Daly who took the name Soraya Khashoggi. They raised one daughter and four sons together.
Khashoggi continues to live a quiet life in the Principality of Monaco, even after a British court ordered him to pay £7 million to a creditor. His services as a facilitator have been a recurring feature throughout US administrations since Nixon; most recently, he met with Richard Perle shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Khashoggi has eight children.
In the 1980s the Khashoggi family occupied one of the largest villa estates in Marbella, hosting lavish parties usually arranged by Marbella's 'Monroe's' club proprietor and local celebrity Robert Young (born Robert Parkes UK 1953) These parties were legendary, and guests included film stars, politicians, and pop celebrities. Food was supplied by up to 6 resident chefs, and it is said that champagne was kept in specially cooled trailers parked in the vast grounds of the complex.
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In 1985, celebrity reporter Robin Leach declared a birthday party in Vienna that Khashoggi threw for his eldest son to be 'the most extravagant event in European history.'
Adnan Khashoggi's Son Ali Khashoggi
DNA testing in 1999 confirmed that his daughter Petrina Khashoggi, was in fact biologically not his, but Jonathan Aitken's and Soraya's child.
Adnan Khashoggi's Son Omar Khashoggi
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