GADDAFI'S SON - Kicked out of restaurant charging up to $10k for dinner

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Nightspot bars Gaddafi son By Bruce Johnston in Rome (Filed: 10/08/2001)

THE third son of the Libyan leader, Col Gaddafi, who spends much of his time in a tent in the desert, has been wreaking havoc in a jet-set playground in Sardinia, say the Italian media.

First Saadi Gaddafi's 130ft yacht, Al-Farah, crashed into a mooring on the Costa Smeralda, sustaining £15,000 of damage. Then he was ejected from the Billionaire restaurant and nightclub in Porto Cervo for unseemly behaviour, even before he had time to park his car.

Mr Gaddafi, known locally as "His Arrogance", had apparently tried to jump the car park queue.

The venue's co-owner, Flavio Briatore, told him: "People like you who don't know how to behave are not wanted. Get out." Mr Briatore, the former head of Benetton's F1 racing team, admits that his restaurant's prices are high.

A table for dinner could set a customer back up to £10,000, he says.

Yet it is booked solid for the rest of the summer. "For people with money to burn, it is so fashionable that it is forbidden not to be there," reported La Repubblica.

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2001


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