Wanted: a Saudi royal courtier
Following a rape conviction against one of his former hangers-on, Prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd may be looking for a new air-conditioning expert
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If you’ve ever wanted to work for the Saudi royal family, there might be a new opening.
Prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd may be in need of someone to attend to his air-conditioning needs, now that the guy who used to perform that role has been found guilty of raping a New York bartender at the city’s Plaza hotel.
An article in today’s New York Times reveals a number of fascinating details about the prince, all of which basically boil down to: Saudi royalty – they’re not like the rest of us.
Relying on Middle East experts and testimony from the trial of Mustapha Ouanes, the Times reports that the Saudi prince “has few, if any, official responsibilities and appears to focus mostly on bouncing around the globe with his large entourage.”
How large? Large enough to take up “more than 50 rooms at the Plaza, and still more in other nearby hotels,” the Times says. The prince, the “youngest and assumed favorite son” of King Fahd, who died in 2005, was staying in a 4,000-square-foot suite at the time of the rape.
Believed to be a billionaire, he’ll presumably be on the hunt for a mechanical engineer to take over for Ouanes, whose defense claimed he was the true victim in the case, which amounted to a shakedown. (“The women have not sued Mr. Ouanes or the prince,” the Times notes.)
Before his arrest, Ouanes served the prince by “modifying the climate-control system in the prince’s suite to match his tastes” – surely a vital duty at a place like the Plaza.
Good help is hard to find, and we wish the prince the best of luck.
The Times of Israel Community.