Saudi Princess caught fleeing five star hotel to evade bill

[marmar]

A Saudi princess's attempt to flee a five-star hotel in Paris and dodge a five million pound bill was foiled with her large entourage of servants and luggage being just a bit too noticeable.

Princess Maha Al-Sudairi, the wayward ex-wife of Saudi Crown Prince and deputy prime minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz, who is second-in-line to the Saudi throne, tried to to dodge paying a hotel bill of 5 million pounds by escaping at night from the Shangri-La hotel.

She and her retinue of 60 servants in tow with a mountain of suitcases, were instantly spotted by the hotel staff when filing out at 3.30am (local time) last Friday.

They called the police and she was stopped as her extensive luggage was being bundled into a fleet of limousines, the Daily Mail reported. .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/saudi-princess-caught-fleeing-five-star-hotel-to-evade-bill/16857/

[Turbineguy]

1. She should have stayed at the Trump Towers!

[Woody Woodpecker]

2. I hope it will cost her MORE than 5 million pounds - maybe the entire fortune of hers...

Welshing on a bill is a really bad idea, and will immediately blacklist anyone doing so - especially in the 5 star hotels.

She will have to downgrade to maybe Motel 6 on her next trip....

That'll save her millions too.

[xchrom]

3. Now THAT would have been a sight to Behold. Nt

[GodlessBiker]

4. What a deadbeat.

[DURHAM D]

5. And not for the first time -

"The princess arrived in Paris with her entourage on December 23 last year and booked out an entire 41-room floor of the Shangri-La. Up until then she had been confined to a palace in the middle eastern state by Saudi King Abdullah after leaving behind a trail of unpaid bills with luxury firms across Europe, reportedly including Dior, jewellery outlets Chaumet and Victoria Casal, and at least one hotel. Her global over-spending has been well-documented in the past."

[Blue_Tires]

9. I'm starting to wonder how she even pays for her Pope-like entourage...

unless their paychecks are covered by daddy or the ex...

[Ikonoklast]

13. Slavery is not a thing of the past in Saudi Arabia.

The ruling House of Saud is more backwards, corrupt, and hypocritical than the Republican Party and the Vatican put together.

[hifiguy]

29. Very true. And given the nature of both the Vatican and

the Repig party, that Saudi "royalty" is able to beggar the English language for appropriate descriptors verges on science fiction.

[Major Nikon]

21. Sounds like it's just a game to her

[Earth_First]

6. M/Billiionaires try this shit all the time...

'the tab' is for the little people...

[Blue_Tires]

7. If the Daily Mail is accurate, she sadly can't be arrested because of diplomatic immunity

and like most other wastes of oxygen otherwise known as the spawn of the hyperwealthy, the only thing this worthless twit knows how to do in life is spend ex-hubby's money (on credit), even after being cut off...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154152/Saudi-Royal-Princess-Maha-Al-Sudairi-does-5m-runner-Paris-hotel.html

[snooper2]

10. Only if she was there for diplomatic reasons, if she was on vacation they can take her passport..

Just like another "princess" that was busted in Florida...

Also, this lady is a real piece of shit...

I found this little tidbit-


"In 1995, another Saudi princess, Princess Maha al-Sudairi, wife of the heir to the throne, was accused of beating a servant in Orange County whom she suspected of stealing $200,000 from her.

No charges were filed."

[Blue_Tires]

11. yeah, i was about to post that

such an ugly history

[HooptieWagon]

12. Yes, the article says shes claiming diplomatic immunity.

Im not sure how that flies, since she isnt a diplomat and is the EX wife of the Saudi Prince.

[JHB]

23. Claiming and having are not necessarily the same thing

I suspect some high-level phone calls trying to smooth out this ...unpleasantness... with minimal fuss, whether or not diplomatic immunity is actually conjured into existence here.

Don't want her to pay her bills with a tell-all insider's book on the Saudi royals, after all.

[HooptieWagon]

27. Yes, that was my point.

[AsahinaKimi]

8. I wonder...

at what point, in a rich person's life, do they decide they get a free pass card, where everything is provided to them at no cost, simply because they made it to top. What kind of mind set is that? An arrogant one, to be sure.

[Art_from_Ark]

15. Barbra Streisand is said to have raised a big stink at a New York department store

because they were going to charge her sales tax on her purchases. I think this kind of mindset might start when someone gives them a break on price due to their celebrity, and then they just come to expect it from everyone.

[HopeHoops]

14. 60 servants? WTF? How the hell could you need 60 servants?

Oh, and I'm sure the limos were inconspicuous.

[LiberalFighter]

16. Her shit really stinks!

[HopeHoops]

18. Yeah, and she probably needed ten of them just to wipe her hinter region.

Seriously though - what the hell does anyone need with 60 servants at a hotel? Isn't that what room service is for?

[Blue_Tires]

22. Her sister-in-law or somebody has like 55 servants and she has to show that she is "worth" more

This is probably closer to the truth than we think...Everything with them is a competition to see how much cash they can throw around (it's all monopoly money to them, anyways), which is why we see gold-plated Ferraris, Maybachs, etc. in the Middle East...

[HopeHoops]

26. There are other things that are gold-plated...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=127554

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. "She and her retinue of 60 servants in tow with a mountain of suitcases, were instantly spotted"

And that fleet of limousinces were not exactly invisible either.

I can see it now..
"Be vewy vewy quiet...."

[HopeHoops]

19. Damn. That made me think of the shotgun scene from "The Mask".

[Matariki]

20. She has SIXTY 'servants' staying with her in a 5 star hotel???

wtf? One for each finger and toe nail? That still leaves 40. Or are they employed to party with her?

[HooptieWagon]

24. She probably isnt paying the servants either.

[JHB]

25. Hey, if you're going to lounge about on a human-pyramid platform...

Kneeling down for hours on end with a whole couch/bed across your back is a specialized skill, you know. And all of them have to sleep sometime, so they need what, four hours? for that. It adds up!

[tawadi]

28. "just a bit too noticeable"?