Prostitute claimed to be a Saudi Princess in order to con couple out of £14 million in property swindle, court hears...

Unveiled: Sara Al Amoudi, who is accused of swindling a couple out of property worth £14million by posing as a Saudi princess was actually a prostitute, a court heard...

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A woman accused of swindling a couple out of property worth £14million by posing as a Saudi princess was actually a prostitute, a court heard.

Sara Al Amoudi reportedly boasted of ‘limitless wealth’, and convinced HSBC to lend her £4million, while a statement from Barclays suggested she had £165million in her account.

But property developers Amanda Clutterbuck, 56, and Ian Paton, 45, say the ‘princess’ actually worked as a prostitute with her two sisters in a £750,000 flat yards from Harrods.

A judge also urged Miss Al Amoudi to remove her burka in court for the complex civil claim from Miss Clutterbuck and Mr Paton for the value of six luxurious London properties they signed over to her. 

Miss Al Amoudi, who counts peers among her friends and is said to have dated actor Colin Farrell, earned the nickname ‘the vamp in the veil’ following a previous court case in which ex-boyfriend Patrick Ribbsaeter, a Swedish model, was cleared of assaulting her chauffeur. 

He claimed that Miss Al Amoudi – whose age has been variously reported as 30 and 43 – regularly discarded her veil to go to nightclubs and drink herself into a stupor.

London’s High Court heard how Mr Paton was introduced to Miss Al Amoudi about ten years ago by another property developer, Elliot Nichol. Miss Al Amoudi, Mr Paton and Miss Clutterbuck then became involved in a multimillion-pound scheme to redevelop prime sites in the capital.

Mr Paton and Miss Clutterbuck claim they lost everything when the venture collapsed – and realized they had been tricked.

Miss Clutterbuck said in a  statement: ‘I thought I was living through an Alfred Hitchcock film, in which reality seemed to be totally distorted. Mr Nichol had drunkenly admitted that the so-called Saudi Arabian “princesses” were in fact prostitutes.’ 

Accused: Sara Al Amoudi reportedly boasted of 'limitless wealth', and convinced HSBC to lend her £4million, while a statement from Barclays suggested she had £165million in her account. She is pictured outside court last week...

Transgender at six: Family embraces decision to let daughter live as boy...

Insistent: Tyler receives a longed-for short haircut after insisting for years that he was not a girl...

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The insistence that she was a boy began when Kathryn was two years old and only became more pronounced, distressed and frustrated as she grew older.

By the time she was four, Kathryn's parents began to realize there was more going on than just Kathryn being a tomboy. 

After seeing a psychologist who diagnosed Kathryn as having gender dysphoria and recommended they let her to live as a boy, Jean and Stephen allowed Kathryn to become Tyler (names have been changed) and watched as their daughter bloomed into a happy, playful little boy.

According to The Washington Post, for years, their little girl had been telling Stephen and Jean that she was a little boy. 

Stephen recalls a car trip with Kathryn that made him realize how desperately unhappy his child was in her skin.

'Daddy, I’m going to read you a story, okay?' Kathryn told her father, before opening a book and pretending to read. Her story was about a little boy who was born 'like a girl' and how sad he was. 

The couple decided to take their younger child to see a psychologist specializing in transgender. Michele Angello confirmed what they already knew - Tyler had gender dysphoria and it was unlikely to change.

'If Tyler wants to be Kathryn again, that’s fine,' Jean told The Washington Post. 'But right now, this works. He’s happy. I just want my child to be happy.'

For Tyler's older sister, 8, it's fairly simple: 'It’s just a boy mind in a girl body,' she told her classmates about her brother. 

The Washington Post first profiled Tyler and his family when he was five. Tyler's parents had followed their psychologist's advice and faced the difficulty of imparting the news of Tyler's change to their families and community.

Oprah lands Lindsay Lohan interview, docu-series...

Lindsay Lohan...

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Oprah Winfrey will talk to Lindsay Lohan for her first post-rehab chat. The mogul has also signed the troubled starlet to a reality series.

Oprah's taking on Lindsay.

The media mogul has landed an exclusive interview with Lindsay Lohan, the first after she gets out of rehab in August, reports EW.com.

It will tape and air in August, an OWN spokesperson tells USA TODAY.

Oprah Winfrey...

But wait, there's more.

Oprah's OWN network has signed Lohan to an eight-episode docu-series that will follow the actress as she works to rebuild her career and stay healthy.

The series will air in 2014.

Culled from USA Today...

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Yobe killings barbaric, wicked – Jonathan

 
 •Block of classrooms at Government Secondary School, Mamudo, Yobe State, destroyed by Boko Haram members...on Saturday.

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President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday described the killing of 29 pupils of Government Secondary School, Mamudo, Potiskum, Yobe State, as wicked and barbaric and vowed to flush our perpetrators of violence out of the country.

“The killing is barbaric, completely wicked. Anybody who will target innocent children for any kind of grief will certainly go to hell,” the President said in a statement by his spokesman, Reuben Abati.

The presidential condemnation came on the heels of the closure of secondary schools in Yobe as a result of the killings of the school pupils in Mamudo.

Governor Ibrahim Gaidam who described the killing as “cold-blooded murder” when he visited the attacked school on Sunday ordered all secondary schools in the state shut until the beginning of next academic session in September.

The pupils and one of their teachers were murdered by suspected members of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram whom the security forces had been waging war against since the declaration of state of emergency in Yobe, Adamawa and Borno states on May 14 this year.

Abati added, “Mr. President wants to assure Nigerians that these kind of desperate Nigerians will be flushed out of the system.

“Mr. President is committed to the issue of the protection of lives and properties of all Nigerians and he wants to assure Nigerians that the war against terrorists has been launched and will continue and the Nigerian government is determined to put an end to this menace.

Metrosexual men cost their partners £230 every YEAR in beauty products ... and it's all David Beckham's fault!...

The Becks effect: 46.4 per cent of British women said their men are pampering themselves pretty much on a daily basis with their beauty products to look like David Beckham...

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Every woman wants to be with him and every man wants to be him.And it seems that men are now so desperate to emulate David Beckham's groomed look that they are even resorting to stealing their partner's beauty products to do so.

Britain’s metrosexual males are using £234 worth of their girlfriends’ and wives’ designer skin-care products every year in a bid to be like Becks.
Nearly half of British women revealed that the man in their life is sneakily using their beauty products on a weekly basis – and they estimated that it costs them £19.50 a month on average. 

In the past few years famous metrosexual men like David have changed perceptions on male grooming and now it’s much more acceptable for men to cleanse, tone and moisturize.
But in the new survey, 46.4 per cent of British women said their men are pampering themselves pretty much on a daily basis with their beauty products. 

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 Relatives of Ibadan traders killed by suspected Boko Haram members, in Ibadan, Oyo State...on Tuesday...

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Corpses of the 10 traders murdered in Mugunu, Borno State by suspected Boko Haram members arrived at the Bodija Market in Ibadan North Local Government of Oyo State on Tuesday.

Their remains were first received by the executive of market union at about 2pm at the toll gate before being taken to the tension-filled market.

The traders were on a business trip to the state when they met their untimely death on Saturday.

On sighting the corpses, hundreds of traders, relatives of the deceased and sympathisers, who had gathered in the market, started weeping uncontrollably.

One of the survivors of the attack, Taoheed Adewuyi, 32, said, “They ( attackers) stopped us along the way and asked us to come down from our vehicle and lie down. They started shooting us one by one.

“I was shot but I was not badly injured. I fainted but later became conscious. I am lucky to be alive.

Wedding: Deeper Life Suspends Kumuyi's Son...

Pastor William Kumuyi...


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The Deeper Christian Life Ministry has suspended John Kumuyi, the second son of its General-Superintendent, Pastor William Kumuyi, over his controversial wedding in Jamaica.

The report was contained in an online video on Tuesday.

John was suspended on account of his bride, who flouted the church’s rules by using make-up and other flashy ensemble that accompanied a fitted wedding gown. The gown also had see-through sleeves. His bride, Love Odih, was accused of flouting the established doctrine of the church on conservative dressing.

Though the new couple, who got married on June 15, 2013, had apologized, the apology did not stem the tide of criticisms by numerous members of the church.

In the video, their apology was read on Saturday by Pastor Akpofure, during the church’s monthly miracle and revival programme, held at Deeper Life Conference Centre, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

It read in part, “We unreservedly and wholeheartedly state that we did not intend that our acts or omissions will, in any way, undermine the great works that God has done through the Deeper Christian Life Ministry worldwide and more especially, through our Father in the Lord, the General Superintendent.