"At about the same time she met the prince, Rice also met Adnan Khashoggi's daughter, Nabila, at a New York restaurant or discotheque, according to friends and family. And through Nabila, said the mother of a friend, Rice met Adnan.
Rice and a friend, Julie Semones, attended a birthday party on Khashoggi's largest and most lavish yacht, the Nabila, in the Mediterranean off the coast of France, in 1981 or 1982, according to Semones.
Khashoggi's extravagant parties, like his incessant search for beautiful young women, are legendary. In a 1986 biography, The Richest Man in the World, author Ronald Kessler wrote that the yacht is Khashoggi's "playground."
Both young women apparently cultivated their relationship with the Khashoggi family. A former executive of Khashoggi's U.S. business interests said he saw Semones in Khashoggi's New York apartment last year, and Miriam Rice said her daughter has met Khashoggi, an avid gambler, in Nevada.