On the way to a storm in Lebanon? A couple of flight attendants, from Australia and Wales, claim that they were sexually assaulted by the former prime minister of Lebanon. Saad al-Haririwhile he was on his private plane, during a state visit to the USA. Meanwhile, the two flight attendants announced that they would file a huge lawsuit against him. According to the details, Hariri, whose fortune is estimated at 1.7 billion dollars, regularly harassed the two flight attendants, and even raped one of them Forced several times, during flights where he took medication and used cocaine.
The flight attendants also claimed that one of the bosses, Helen Conlon, turned to one of them, and said that if she wants to work in the company, she must perform sexual acts. This, during the lawsuit filed in the federal court in Brooklyn. However, the 52-year-old Hariri denied the allegations, claiming that it was a “smear campaign against him”.
At the same time, one of the flight attendants even said that “Hariri grabbed me by force, and said ‘I like you, I will see you again very soon'”. According to her, she was very worried about her job and her personal safety, but in any case she decided to leave her job at the end of 2009, after years of sexual assaults.
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Al Hariri (Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir)
It was also claimed during the filing of the lawsuit, that additional assaults occurred during the Christmas party in 2008, during which the women in the team were required to dress in “sexy” outfits. The second flight attendant, on her part, claimed that she was first attacked by Hariri in September 2007, when the two flew to visit the White House. According to her, Hariri asked her for a bottle of water in his room, then tried to force her into his bed, so she managed to escape.
According to the records, this is the third time that the two flight attendants have tried to sue the former Prime Minister of Lebanon in New York. This, after the previous times, the court dismissed the charges. Meanwhile, Hariri’s lawyers told the court last August that “they are dealing with false accusations to extract millions of dollars from Mr. Hariri”.
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As you may recall, in 2019, Hariri made headlines after it was revealed that he allegedly paid $16 million to Candice van der Merwe, a South African swimwear model who had an affair with him, after they met at a luxury resort in the Seychelles.