The vessel would eventually end up with Donald Trump, who called Mr. Khashoggi “a great broker and a lousy businessman.”Journalist Ronald Kessler, author of the 1986 book “The Richest Man in the World: The Story of Adnan Khashoggi,” described Mr. Khashoggi as a scalpel-sharp strategist. (JACQUES SOFFER/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)It all unraveled for Mr. Khashoggi — or A.K., as he liked to be called — in equally spectacular fashion. Mr. Khashoggi was sent to a top boarding school, Victoria College, in Alexandria, then a cosmopolitan enclave on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast. By 1980, Mr. Khashoggi was the intermediary for up to 80 percent of the military purchases by Riyadh. In the early 1990s, Mr. Khashoggi took a second wife, Iranian-born Shahpari Zanganeh, under Islamic law.

Source: Washington Post June 06, 2017 18:26 UTC