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  • US judge orders Saudi king to pay $200 million

    03/06/2003 9:27:22 PM PST · by HAL9000 · 4 replies · 310+ views
    Agence France-Presse | March 6, 2003
    LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A US judge ordered Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and members of his family to pay more than 200 million dollars to the estranged wife of a dead Saudi royal following a 20-year legal battle. The court in Los Angeles ordered the payment under a long-disputed 1983 separation agreement between Sheik Mohammed al-Fassi, the eccentric late brother-in-law of Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz, and his wife Dena al-Fassi. Dena al-Fassi, 41, filed the suit in late 2001 claiming the Saudi royals should be responsible for covering the 81-million-dollar settlement awarded to her that has ballooned to...