Saudi princess tried to dodge $7 million Paris hotel bill
Jun 19, 2012, 5:50 pm
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Saudi princess tried to dodge $7 million Paris hotel bill
http://travel.usatoday.com/hotels/po...aying/712345/1
Reports out of Paris last week said a Saudi princess was caught trying to leave the ultra-luxury Shangri-La hotel in the middle of the night - with 60 servants in tow - without settling her $7.4 million bill.
According to Agence France Presse (AFP), police confirmed the story - first broken by the daily Le Parisien.
Reports out of Paris last week said a Saudi princess was caught trying to leave the ultra-luxury Shangri-La hotel in the middle of the night - with 60 servants in tow - without settling her $7.4 million bill.
According to Agence France Presse (AFP), police confirmed the story - first broken by the daily Le Parisien.
Jun 19, 2012, 7:19 pm
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The princess must have amazing reasononing ability to think they could slip out unnoticed. 
Originally Posted by tcook052
http://travel.usatoday.com/hotels/po...aying/712345/1
Reports out of Paris last week said a Saudi princess was caught trying to leave the ultra-luxury Shangri-La hotel in the middle of the night - with 60 servants in tow - without settling her $7.4 million bill.
According to Agence France Presse (AFP), police confirmed the story - first broken by the daily Le Parisien.
Reports out of Paris last week said a Saudi princess was caught trying to leave the ultra-luxury Shangri-La hotel in the middle of the night - with 60 servants in tow - without settling her $7.4 million bill.
According to Agence France Presse (AFP), police confirmed the story - first broken by the daily Le Parisien.
Jun 23, 2012, 4:36 am
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Did she really think that 60+ people could sneak out of a place like that and no one would notice their $7 million bill wasn't settled? Either that is one very dim lady, or there's more to this story than meets the eye.
Jun 23, 2012, 5:40 am
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Jun 23, 2012, 11:59 am
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I am surprised the hotel did not require the bill to be settled on a regular basis... they had been there for over 60 days.
Jun 23, 2012, 1:18 pm
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To be fair, that's some creative journalism from US Today:
It typicall doesnt fall to celebrity big whigs, let alone Queens and Kings to settle/care about hotel bills. Someone in her entourage must have been responsible and if they checked in OK it'd be safe to assume the hotel had some sort of credit arrangement in place - especially when she'd been staying for 6 months!
When contacted by AFP, the luxury hotel's director Alain Borgers said that that are "no problems" with its clients and "no unpaid bills" at the moment.
Jun 28, 2012, 2:59 pm
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I have had instances where my party departed or nearly departed the hotel thinking the bill for all the rooms was settled in full by/via another party even as it wasn't paid at all.
This person, however, seems to have a sort of reputation of running up bills and then basically railroading the situation such that the bill gets picked up by the state that is a servant to the huge Saudi royal family.
This person, however, seems to have a sort of reputation of running up bills and then basically railroading the situation such that the bill gets picked up by the state that is a servant to the huge Saudi royal family.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...s-8525286.html
Three 'Aladdin's caves' of luxury goods stockpiled by a shopaholic Saudi princess are to be seized to settle millions of euros in unpaid bills
A French judge has ordered the three lock-up stores in the Paris area to be cleared of jewels, art-works, leather goods and clothes believed to be worth up to Euros 12m.
Princess Maha Al-Sudairi, former wife of the late Saudi crown prince, has made headlines several times in the last four years by running up, and omitting to pay, immense hotel and shopping bills in the West. In June last year, she left the Shangri-la Hotel in Paris with 60 of her staff without paying the €6m bill for an entire floor that she had occupied for six months.
Three 'Aladdin's caves' of luxury goods stockpiled by a shopaholic Saudi princess are to be seized to settle millions of euros in unpaid bills
A French judge has ordered the three lock-up stores in the Paris area to be cleared of jewels, art-works, leather goods and clothes believed to be worth up to Euros 12m.
Princess Maha Al-Sudairi, former wife of the late Saudi crown prince, has made headlines several times in the last four years by running up, and omitting to pay, immense hotel and shopping bills in the West. In June last year, she left the Shangri-la Hotel in Paris with 60 of her staff without paying the €6m bill for an entire floor that she had occupied for six months.
Mar 9, 2013, 4:55 am
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Their sense of entitlement over there is so out of proportion it's truly indescribable. And yes, she has a terrible reputation - she's had it for years. I truly don't think she believes she has to pay it. My other thought is she has absolutely no concept of what 'pay for' means, and is so accustomed to just getting/taking/having things gotten for her/given to her that she either assumes it's paid for or believes it will be.
And I don't think she cares.
And I don't think she cares.
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