LA's Saudi Prince Sued By 3 Women Alleging Sex Assault

A Saudi prince arrested this week at a hillside compound near Beverly Glen on suspicion of forcing a woman to perform a sex act on him was sued today by three women who allege he sexually harassed them.

The plaintiffs, identified only as Jane Doe 1, 2 and 3, filed the complaint in Los Angeles Superior Court against Prince Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud.

The allegations include assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment, sexual harassment, sexual discrimination and retaliation. The plaintiffs are seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.

A representative of the price could not be immediately reached for comment.

The lawsuit alleges that all three plaintiffs were abused between Monday and Wednesday in the Beverly Hills area. They were “deprived of their freedom of movement by use of physical barriers, force, threats of force, menace, fraud, deceit and unreasonable duress,” according to the complaint filed on their behalf.

The plaintiffs’ attorney, Stanislav Pekler, cited attorney-client privilege in declining to elaborate further on the women’s allegations or say whether any of them is the victim in the alleged crime that resulted in the prince’s arrest.

Al-Saud, 28, was arrested at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday in the 2500 block of Wallingford Drive and booked on suspicion of forced oral copulation with an adult, according to Officer Drake Madison of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Al-Saud was released Thursday on $300,000 bail and assigned an Oct. 19 court date.

A caretaker of a home in a gated community on Wallingford Drive called police to report a disturbance. Neighbor Tennyson Collins told the Los Angeles Times that a resident reported seeing a bleeding woman scream for help as she tried to scale the home’s 8-foot-high wall Wednesday afternoon. Police told The Times that Al-Saud was renting the 22,000-square-foot home and that they had to escort some 20 people out of the house, many of them staff.

City News Service