Rabat – A French court in Nanterre, near Paris, has said that a French company did not make its case against the late Saudi Prince Saud Al Faisal. The company, Atyla, accused Al Faisal of commissioning adult movies without paying for them.
The court ruled that Atyla did not prove the presence of a contract with SCI Bugeaud, owned by several members of the Saudi royal family.
Al Faisal, who died in 2015, had served as foreign minister of Saudi Arabia.
Quoting the court’s decision, AFP reported that Atyla “does not produce any contractual document justifying that the late Saudi Prince ordered services of a pornographic nature and in particular the realization of a film of this nature.”
The court sentenced Atyla to pay €5,000 in damages to SCI for reputational loss.
During the trial, Atyla’s lawyer asserted that the Saudi prince asked the company to film three pornographic videos of his alleged Moroccan girlfriend.
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EuroNews reported that the sudden death of the prince in 2015 following a heart attack prevented payment of the dues. Atyla then asked Al Faisal’s daughters and relatives of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to pay the fees.
The company accused the late prince of owing them more than €90,000.
Newsweek reported in April 2018 that the only evidence of the scandal was email and mobile messages between Boyle Antolin Dugenian, an alleged personal assistant of the late prince, and Atyla’s manager, Marc Paulay.
The messages about the film include discussing the date and location of shooting and scripts.
“He does not like blindfold and being tied. Make a new one,” Dugenia wrote in an alleged email “in response to a script describing the female character, played by the prince’s Moroccan friend, being tied up and blindfolded,” according to Newsweek.
