How the Sultan of Brunei Violated His Sharia Law With Me
SOURCE: http://www.thedailybeast.com
Hasan-Bolkiah
As a
teenager, I was the mistress of his brother—who ‘gave’ me as a gift to
the sultan. And in just one night, we committed at least two offenses
under his newly implemented penal code.
On Tuesday, I was greeted by a familiar
face when I read through the morning’s news: the sultan of Brunei. He
looks older now than when I knew him, of course, his face doughier and
more careworn.
When I was still a teenager, I was the
mistress of the sultan’s brother, the prince of Brunei. My usual stance
is that they weren’t bad guys, really. Just human and impossibly rich. I
have often wondered what I would have done in their place, given all
the power and money in the world. I’ve never come up with a satisfactory
answer.
Now the sultan is making headlines for implementing Sharia law in Brunei, including a new penal code
that includes stoning to death for adultery, cutting off limbs for
theft, and flogging for violations such as abortion, alcohol
consumption, and homosexuality. There’s also capital punishment for rape
and sodomy.
I am no expert in international human
rights. My only qualification in commenting on this issue is that one
drunken evening in the early ’90s, the sultan and I committed at least
two of the aforementioned offenses as we looked down on the lights of
Kuala Lumpur from a penthouse suite.
Let me back up a bit.
I had barely turned 18 when I found
myself at a “casting call” at the Ritz-Carlton in New York for what I
was told would be a position at a nightclub in Singapore. When I got the
job, I learned that the job wasn’t in Singapore at all. Instead, it was
an invitation to be the personal guest of the notorious playboy Prince Jefri Bolkiah,
the youngest brother of the sultan of Brunei. At the time, the sultan
was the wealthiest man in the world. I was a wild child consumed with
wanderlust. I was hardly an innocent, but I was—when I accepted the
invitation—very, very young.
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