She walks down the street on the Upper East Side, thin and stylish, another well-heeled beauty chatting away on her cellphone.
Except that she isn't — she's Osama bin Laden's niece.
Wafah Binladin left the city in the months before her uncle's ghastly attack, but she's back now, living at a friend's posh pad off Park Avenue, pursuing her career as a pop star and living it up on the social scene at swanky Soho House.
A former Columbia student who grew up in Geneva, she takes the subway around town, Elton John sheet music under her arm, trading on her connections and looking for a way into the music scene.
But friends say Wafah is wearing out her welcome with her upscale pals.
"She wants to be a pop star, but no record company will have her," said one pal.
"At first, we all had sympathy for her and thought she was a nice girl with an unfortunate family connection." But the pal said Wafah's "attitude" is alienating .
A friend in her building said she is avoiding media interviews and wants to maintain her privacy — despite the dark-haired beauty's bid to be a pop star.
Wafah's neighbors and local storekeepers were stunned to hear bin Laden's niece was living among them after moving from London.
She lived in a $6,000-a-month loft on Spring Street, and shopkeepers knew her as a big spender. A saleswoman at Bigdrop reported that she would spend thousands at a time on designer clothes. But in the months before the 9/11 attacks, she left town.
Afterward, she told an interviewer she was horrified by the slaughter of innocents in the World Trade Center. More
2 comments:
Do you follow the pop scene? I don't, and I also noticed this Wafa and uncle Osama story. I don't know how to trackback to your post, but it is linked at
http://feedlot.blogspot.com/2005/03/give-girl-break.html
to balance my other sources.
I follow a bit of everything. you won;t see any posts about Brtiney Spears latest tattoo or anything but some thing peak my interest. Whay I found reallu interesting is the woman's attitude. Like the world owes here something. Any other country would not even allow her half a chance. Thanks for the info on the link!
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