Thread: Brunei : Prince Jefri Bolkiah

how did we miss this one ...........................

In court, the playboy Prince of Brunei, his former fiancée... and the erotic life-size statues he had made of her
24th November 2010

The flamboyant prince of Brunei has had to endure the embarrassment of having his former fiancée - the model of four of his by now famous life-size erotic statues - giving evidence in a court case.

Prince Jefri Bolkiah, a member of the Brunei Royal family who is worth some £1.2billion, is suing two of his former lawyers for £5million.

He claims they fleeced him of millions while managing his properties, one of which being the Sunninghill Estate, in Ascot, where he housed the X-rated naked statues of his one-time lover.


Sex doll: Micha Raines was the model for four erotic sculptures commissioned by Prince Jefri Bolkiah, a member of the Brunei Royal family


In the flesh: Mischa Raines leaves court after she testified on the stand in Manhattan

The prince commissioned the statues of him having sex with Micha Raines, who yesterday was forced to give evidence in the case at Manhattan state Supreme Court.

Known for his extravagant lifestyle - he has a yacht called Tit (the lifeboats are names Nipple 1 and Nipple 2) and was alleged to have a harem of 40 women - the 56-year-old was engaged to Miss Raines, from Las Vegas.

The statues depict the prince and Miss Raines, his one-time personal assistant and mother to one of his 18 children, entwined in a number of positions.

At one point Prince Jefri kept the statues in his £7million Long Island estate, though their current whereabouts is not known.

The 41-year-old was called as a witness for the prince in the case, in which he claims the two lawyers conned him over a property.

While in the witness box she looked little like the statues... perhaps because she was clothed.

Miss Raines patiently answered a series of questions about Mr Bolkiah's business practices over the years she was with him.

She described how Prince Jefri had been impressed by the husband-and-wife legal team he's now suing, Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman, who were put in charge of selling the prince's 23-room Sunninghill Estate.
Among the left-behind goodies at the Sunninghill Estate were the X-rated statues of Miss Raines in action with the prince.

The royal fired the lawyers in 2006 and now says they fleeced him of millions while managing his properties.

The prince hired them after just one face-to-face meeting in London in the summer of 2004, she said, and Raines herself handwrote several notes, on Prince Jefri's behalf, to the couple, expressing his satisfaction with them.

Mr Bolkiah, who is currently married to three wives, having divorced two others, does not give any money to his former partner.


Miss Raines stayed behind Prince Jefri of Brunei as photographers snapped pictures of the pair outside the court today

But Miss Raines shared the prince's fabulous wealth between 1996 and 2005, when they were together. At one point, she said, she was 'earning' £33,000 a month.

'I was paid a salary when I was working for him,' she said. 'And when I was his fiancée, I was given gifts.'

Even now she and their five-year-old son live in a £6million Las Vegas house that was a gift from the prince. She added: 'He still calls a few times a month.'

So far, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ira Gammerman has barred defence lawyers from introducing evidence of Prince Jefri's extravagance and life of sex and luxury.

The case continues.

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Jefri's yacht Tits with its lifeboats named Nipple 1 and Nipple 2

Prince Jefri Bolkiah