- Samira Khashoggi
Samira Khashoggi (or Kashoggi) (1935 - March 1986) was the daughter of
Muhammad Khashoggi , a medical doctor who was Turkish by descent; the family name means "spoonmaker (Kaşıkçı)" in Turkish. She was the first wife ofEgypt ian bornbillionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed , whom she met on the beach inAlexandria [http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:rhvr3L-4L2wJ:www.guardianlies.com/Section%25206/page32.html+Samira+Khashoggi&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=uk] , and younger sister of the notorious arms dealer,Adnan Khashoggi . The 1954 marriage lasted two years, and produced one child,Dodi Al-Fayed , who died in acar accident withDiana, Princess of Wales in 1997.Samira separated from Mohamed Al-Fayed just months after Dodi's birth. She died of a
heart attack in 1986 aged 51. Dodi was devoted to her, and would telephone her almost every day up to her death. Fayed once told a friend: "If it meant giving up everything I have - cars, wealth and women - I would do it to bring my mother back." [http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:SeFfPUP18C4J:findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970902/ai_n14134131+Samira+Khashoggi+died&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=uk] Samira's second husband died in a car crash as did Dodi's aunt. [http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:6HXrV8my-m4J:www.public-interest.co.uk/diana/dipress.htm+Samira+Kashoggi&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=25&gl=uk]Samira Khashoggi wrote the first Saudi
novel written by a woman in the early 1960s. [http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:YV96yYE4DgEJ:saudiamber.blogspot.com/2007/05/call-this-news-we-need-to-know-more.html+Samira+Khashoggi&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=uk] She was the aunt ofactress Nabila Khashoggi , the daughter of her brother Adnan. [http://posters.imdb.com/name/nm0451490/filmotype]
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