36 Facts About Adnan Khashoggi

Adnan Khashoggi was the founder of Triad International Holding Company, which held diverse investments worldwide, including in luxury hotels, oil refineries, and real estate.

Adnan Khashoggi was born in Mecca, to Muhammad Adnan Khashoggi, who was King Abdul Aziz Al Saud's personal doctor, and Samiha Ahmed, a Saudi woman of Syrian origin.

Adnan Khashoggi's sister was author Samira Adnan Khashoggi who married businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed and was the mother of Dodi Fayed.

Adnan Khashoggi had two brothers, Essam Khashoggi and Adil Khashoggi, and he named Triad Corporation in reference to himself and his two brothers.

Adnan Khashoggi was a paternal uncle of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Adnan Khashoggi was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria, Egypt, and attended Chico State, Ohio State, and Stanford University.

Adnan Khashoggi left his studies in order to pursue a business career.

In 1961, Adnan Khashoggi married 20-year-old Englishwoman, Sandra Daly, who converted to Islam and took the name Soraya Adnan Khashoggi.

Adnan Khashoggi was seventeen when she met Adnan; together they had a son, Ali.

Adnan Khashoggi was married to Lamia Adnan Khashoggi at the time of his death.

Apart from his marriages, Adnan Khashoggi maintained a harem, and it was reported that he had relationships with at least 12 women who were described as his "pleasure wives".

In 1985, celebrity reporter Robin Leach reported Adnan Khashoggi threw a five-day birthday party in Vienna for his eldest son, and in his heyday, Adnan Khashoggi spent $250,000 a day to maintain his lifestyle.

Adnan Khashoggi's house has since been converted into a hotel which is run by Serena Hotels.

Adnan Khashoggi continued to spend lavishly even when he encountered financial problems.

Adnan Khashoggi died on 6 June 2017 while being treated for Parkinson's disease at St Thomas' Hospital in London.

Adnan Khashoggi, using money given to him by his father for a car, bought a number of Kenworth trucks, whose wide wheels made traversing the desert considerably easier.

Adnan Khashoggi made his first US$250,000 leasing the trucks to the construction company, and became the Saudi Arabia-based agent for Kenworth.

Adnan Khashoggi gained influence with US President Richard Nixon by donating US$200 million to his 1972 political campaign, through a friendly bank circumventing existing laws that prohibited such large sums from American corporations to political campaigns.

Adnan Khashoggi headed a company called Triad International Holding Company which among other things built the Triad Center in Salt Lake City, which later went bankrupt.

Adnan Khashoggi was famed as an arms dealer, brokering deals between US firms and the Saudi government, most actively in the 1960s and 1970s.

Adnan Khashoggi consisted of subsidiary companies, including Triad Management, Triad Properties, Triad Energy, Triad Technology, and Triad Financial resources.

Adnan Khashoggi holdings included hotels, shopping centers, banks, oil refineries, a computer manufacturer, a gold mine, construction companies, car and truck franchises, and the Utah Jazz, a professional basketball team.

Adnan Khashoggi was headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with its subsidiary companies located in the United States, Canada and Saudi Arabia.

Adnan Khashoggi had major financial interests in Lloyd's of London; the Manera company; Las Brisas Resort in Acapulco, Mexico; the Houston Galleria; National car rental company; Pyramid Oasis in Cairo, Egypt; Travel Lodge Australia; Pacific Harbor hotel in Fiji; Beirut Riyadh bank; and the bank of Contra Costa.

Adnan Khashoggi owned several private jets, and super-yachts through Triad, including a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 and DC-9, three Boeing 727s, and several smaller business jets and helicopters.

Adnan Khashoggi was directly involved in helping to organize and fund the top-secret Operation Moses in 1984 to airlift to safety 14,000 Ethiopian Jews from Sudan to Israel during a famine caused by the Ethiopian Civil War.

Adnan Khashoggi was a member of the university's board of trustees from 1983 until his indictment on fraud and other charges in May 1989.

Adnan Khashoggi was "principal foreign agent" of the United States and helped establish the supranational intelligence partnership known as the Safari Club.

In 1988, Adnan Khashoggi was arrested in Switzerland, accused of concealing funds, and held for three months.

Adnan Khashoggi stopped fighting extradition when the US prosecutors reduced the charges to obstruction of justice and mail fraud and dropped the more serious charges of racketeering and conspiracy.

Adnan Khashoggi was a financier behind Genesis Intermedia, Inc, a publicly traded Internet company based in the US.

In 2006, Adnan Khashoggi was sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for securities fraud.

Adnan Khashoggi told Hersh that Perle talked to him about the economic costs regarding a proposed invasion of Iraq.

In 1991 Adnan Khashoggi made an extended appearance on the British television programme After Dark, discussing the Middle East alongside, among others, former Prime Minister Edward Heath and Lord Weidenfeld.

Adnan Khashoggi appeared in Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous in 1985 with host Robin Leach which showcased Adnan Khashoggi's extravagant lifestyle.

Adnan Khashoggi appeared in various television shows, newspapers, and notable magazine covers such as Time and The Washington Post.