Saudi Princess Says She Can’t Afford to Fight Ex in Mansion Case

April 11, 2025, 9:35 PM UTC

A Saudi princess embroiled in a long-running fight with her ex-husband over a $33 million Beverly Hills property says she’s a single mother of six and at this point can’t even afford a lawyer.

“I am exhausted both financially, emotionally and psychologically,” Princess Fahdah Husain Abdulrahman Al Athel said in a filing about a seven-year battle over repairs to their 2.3-acre compound. She asked the judge to make her former husband report any sale of the 0.9-hectare property “to avoid any possible abuse” of his legal advantage in the case.

“I am not able to overcome my ex-husband’s power ...

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