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American model Jill Dodd (opposite) met high-rolling playboy Adnan Khashoggi (left) on a superyacht in Cannes in 1980 and moved into his harem in Marbella, .

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BY JILL DODD. COPYRIGHT © 2017 BY JILL DODD. REPRINTED BY REPRINTED BY JILL DODD. BY © 2017 COPYRIGHT JILL DODD. BY billionaire Saudi Arabian arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. She was 20. He was 44. Now 57, ” she shares her story of sex, drugs and life in a harem Pleasure OF JILL DODD COURTESY GETTY IMAGES; BY PHOTOGRAPHED WITHIN FINDING THE LOVE JOURNEY TO IN A DIVISION OF SIMON & SCHUSTER, BOOKS, PERMISSION OF ENLIVEN BOOKS/ATRIA Wife

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t took me a long time provide for all of your financial needs. to admit that I was in a You can travel with me anywhere. modern-day harem. I already If you need me, call me. I will always had enough shame shoved call you back within 24 hours and send a upon me by anyone I told plane to pick you up. If you stay with me about [my boyfriend] Adnan. for 10 years and you want to have my My friends were troubled child, I will marry you in a legal cere- about the fact that he was 24 years old- mony and we’ll have children together.” Clockwise from left: the harem was er than me. Whenever I tried to explain “You don’t need to make promises. housed on a Spanish estate; Khashoggi’s Ithe situation they’d say, “So, you were I just want to be with you.” superyacht; Dodd modelling in Greece; in a harem?” I’d respond, “No! It isn’t a the businessman on his $10 million harem. Are you thinking it’s like the ll harems, since the jet; and on a family trip with Shahpari Zanganeh, whom he wed in the ’90s; movies with a bunch of girls lying beginning of time, have Dodd and Khashoggi in in 1980. around on velvet pillows in belly- fierce competition between dancing outfits?” Admitting it was the women. This was no a harem would have added yet another, different.A After his divorce Adnan had coke kicked in, he was his animated, even worse layer of scandal and humil- only one legal wife, Lamia, and I was engaging self again. iation, and I wasn’t able to be honest his most senior pleasure wife. I suffered When he noticed my goose- with myself about that. occasional hurt and jealousy, but as bumps from the air conditioning on I tried to focus on our love and long as I was his favourite, everything my bare shoulders, he said, “Come relationship – not the fact Adnan had was fine in my world. with me!” I followed him out into the multiple wives. I always defended the I’ll never forget Adnan coming into adjacent shops and he pulled me into a arrangement because he was honest my suite in the middle of the night, fur coat store. “Pick one,” he said. They about it with me from the beginning. setting a box on my bedside table and were so beautiful and soft. I didn’t think When we met, Adnan admitted kissing my head. When he saw me wake about the cruelty involved and chose that after his divorce from his first wife up, he whispered, “Oh, I have the wrong a hip-length white fox. The lining was Soraya, he would never marry in the room. Sorry, go back to sleep. Keep the white silk satin, and the whole thing traditional way again, saying, “Thou- gift,” and left. It hit me hard. My heart was soft and warm. We didn’t return to “Here,” he said, handing me $10,000 in sands of years ago, women and children dropped into my stomach. He thought our food – instead, we went gambling. hundreds. “Use it to buy make-up and needed protection, food and shelter. It I was another girl. I turned on the light Adnan loved to gamble, and we clothes – things girls need.” was a necessity for men to take many and picked up the box. always played at private gaming rooms “I don’t need this.” wives. Today, in Saudi There is no joy open- where he could gamble big mon- “Please take it. I insist.” Arabia, among royalty ing a gift not meant ey. He was known as a “whale”, one For the rest of the weekend, I and men of high esteem, “I tried to focus for you. Inside was an of the largest gamblers in the world. shoved my hurt feelings down hard, it still goes on this way. on our love – not 18-carat solid gold neck- We sat at the 21 table, gambling stacks of numbing them with cocaine and sex. These men are allowed the fact Adnan lace, curved to the shape $10,000 chips. We were both competi- A few nights later, Dominic [who to have three legal wives of a woman’s neck like tive, so we tried to beat the dealer and works for Adnan] took a group of and 11 pleasure wives. had multiple a treasure from King each other. He let me play with the six or so potential pleasure wives to I am one of these men.” wives” Tut’s tomb. I pictured $10K chips, too. He must have lost dinner and a Paul Anka concert. I sat His arrangement the two of them making $300,000 in one sitting, but he wasn’t in a booth with all these girls, judging didn’t sound so strange, love, and my heart phys- bothered. Afterward, we returned to them, knowing the only reason they unusual maybe, but not ically ached. Doubt sunk his suite and his bed. He succeeded It was a small band with a gold heart how you can divide your heart into were there was for the money. strange. It seemed like in – I wasn’ t sure I could temporarily at getting my mind off and an arrow of tiny diamonds. I tried drawers! I could never do that. I don’t During the concert, one of the girls he was trying to justify handle this after all. mistaking me for another woman. to act grateful, but I was devastated. get it and I don’t like it.” showed me a ring Adnan had given her. or sell me on the idea of A day or two There was a rumour in the entou- Instead of saying, “Fuck the harem, He got defensive. “I told you not to It was dark in the concert hall, so she being with him, which later, Adnan took me rage that Adnan was looking to marry Adnan, marry me!” I kept my emotions fall in love with me from the beginning. held her finger in my face. I took her wasn’t necessary – I’d on a date, alone, to a a second legal wife and naturally, it in check. Then I attacked him. “How can I told you to wait for a younger man. hand, pulling it into the candlelight. It already fallen for him. Japanese restaurant. would be me. If we married, I wondered you say you love me, and then make love I’m too old for you.” was the same damn heart ring he gave I pushed his speech to He may have been try- if he would give up the harem. I wanted to all these women?” “You’re not too old for me, and how me. He must have bought them in bulk. Jill Dodd the back of my mind in 2017. ing to make sure I wasn’t a big diamond statement ring that set He was totally caught off-guard. He could I possibly spend all this time with My heart pounded so hard I could to focus on the intelli- angry. His limo driv- me apart from all the other girls, a pub- smiled nervously, pointing to his furry, you, making love to you and not be in hear it. [After two years] I couldn’t take gent, brown-eyed man er took us and his lic declaration of his love. naked chest saying, “My heart is like a love with you?” I broke down crying. it anymore. I was done. I wanted out. with the long eyelashes in front of me. bodyguard followed us in. I think he One night, he went to his safe cabinet with many drawers. When I’m I couldn’t control my tears. He “I want you to be my pleasure wife. reserved the entire restaurant as it was and came back holding a red ring box. with you, I open that drawer and enjoy embraced my whole body saying, “I love I’d like to make a contract with you,” completely empty. I thought, “Oh my God, this is really hap- our love. When I’m with someone else, you,” and then, “Can’t I buy you a house? This is an edited extract he said very seriously. I shook my head. After we ordered, he excused pening!” He opened the box and slipped I open a different drawer.” He pointed Do you need a new car?” He went to his from The Currency of Love: A Courageous Journey to “I don’t need a contract.” himself, saying he left something in the the ring on my wedding finger. But when to a different spot on his chest. safe. “I don’t need a car,” I whimpered. Finding the Love Within “Please listen,” he said, gently car. When he returned, there was white I saw the ring, my heart dropped. It was This heart of cabinets sounded The safe was piled halfway up with by Jill Dodd (Simon &

holding my face in his hands. “I will powder around his nose. Once the not a ring Adnan would propose with. OF JILL DODD; GETTY IMAGES COURTESY ridiculous to me. “I don’t understand stacks of money. He grabbed a stack. Schuster, $39.99), out now.

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