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Prince of Brunei's Harem Girl Tells All

Filed under: Wealth, Crimes and Misdemeanors

This spring Plume will publish Jillian Lauren's memoir Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, about the 18 months she spent as one of Prince Jefri of Brunei's playthings-for-hire. At 18, when Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout, a "casting director" offered her $20,000 to party with a rich businessman and a bunch of other young American lovelies for two weeks.

Soon after Lauren found herself on a plane to Brunei, where she spend 18 months in the 40-girl harem of Prince Jefri, the Sultan of Brunei's younger brother and owner of famed hotels like the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air, earning a small fortune. She writes about rooms in the Prince's opulent palace "where absurdly beautiful women lounged on every inch of the upholstery" and exotic orgies ensued.

"I fell victim to Stockholm Syndrome," Lauren writes. "I knew I was a hooker, but somehow I felt like Cinderella." The Prince often loaned her to the Sultan for sex sessions, which she was compensated for with lavish shopping sprees. You'll have to wait until publication for the really sexy bits. "Some Girls would have been riveting even if Lauren had merely illuminated the murky world of high-class prostitution," notes author Jennifer Eagan. "The fact that she does so with humor, candor, and a reporter's gimlet eye is an added delight."

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Custom Lamborghini LM002 Commissioned by the Sultan of Brunei up for sale

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Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos

Long before the Porsche Cayenne roamed the streets, long before Spyker ever dreamt of making what it calls a "Super Sport Utility Vehicle", and long before Veritas hatched plans for an aircraft-powered sport-ute, there was the Lamborghini LM002. Initially devised for the same sort of application as the original Hummer, the "Lambo Rambo", as it was known, was a pioneer in the exotic SUV market. It was powered by the same 450-horsepower V12 as the Lamborghini Countach – the poster child for exotic sportscars in the era of excess – and could climb rocks with the best of 'em.

The LM002 was made as a four-door pickup truck, but the Sultan of Brunei had a special wagon version built. He later sold it to one Bernd Pischetsrieder, the former chief executive of BMW and the Volkswagen group (which now owns Lamborghini). It had room for seven, and packed all the latest amenities you'd expect from a luxury sport-ute, from DVD players and televisions to burlwood veneer panels and sumptuous leather upholstery. It's now up for sale in Germany at an undisclosed price, but you can bet it'll cost a truckload.

Gallery: Sultan of Brunei's custom Lamborghini LM002 Wagon