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Ali KhanHeir to Aga Khan III
Date of Birth: 13.06.1911
Country:  Italy |
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Biography of Ali Khan
Ali Khan, the heir to Aga Khan III, was destined to become the spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Muslims in India until he lost the opportunity due to his love for Italian racing cars, fast horses, and beautiful women. Born in Italy and educated in Europe, Prince Ali Suleiman Khan inherited a vast fortune and quickly learned how to make use of it.
In 1929, after the death of his mother, Ali found himself in London, where his father had sent him to study law. Despite being of a small stature, the dark-skinned youth was exotic and incredibly energetic. He excelled in racing cars, was skilled with horses, and was constantly surrounded by admirers. He competed in professional car races in various European countries, went on hunting expeditions in Africa, and managed his numerous horse breeding farms and villas in Ireland, France, Switzerland, and Venezuela.
During World War II, Ali's courage and extensive knowledge of English, French, and Arabic were invaluable to the Allied forces. He was awarded the "Military Cross" and the "Bronze Star" by the United States for his responsible and dangerous intelligence missions. Later, Ali earned deep respect as Pakistan's permanent representative to the United Nations, where he served from 1958 until May 12, 1960, when he tragically died in a car accident.
The Playboy
Ali Khan's love life mirrored the fast-paced and luxurious aspects of his racing and diplomatic careers. With homes and villas scattered around the world, he only needed to capture a woman's attention and then pursue her virtually anywhere. He employed a technique he called "looking through a crowded room," where he would fix his gaze on a woman until she noticed him. He would then arrange for someone to introduce him to his chosen target. After that, she would be showered with dozens of roses and phone calls, with her every desire or whim instantly fulfilled.
Even married women could have affairs with Ali without fear, as he always traveled with a massive entourage of friends, acquaintances, and admirers, making it nearly impossible to determine whom he was close to at any given moment. In 1936, Loel Guinness, a member of Parliament, testified in court during his divorce proceedings that he left his beautiful, happy, and infatuated young wife Joan alone with Ali, who was, as usual, accompanied by a large entourage. When Guinness returned a short time later, Joan announced that she demanded an immediate divorce because she planned to marry Ali.
Joan became Ali Khan's first wife, and they had two sons: Karim, who became the fourth Imam after Ali Khan's death in 1957, and Amin. While Ali continued his numerous love affairs, he did not consider divorcing Joan until he met the sultry beauty Rita Hayworth on the Riviera in 1948. Ali faced fierce competition from leading Hollywood actors and the Iranian Shah, who were also vacationing on the Riviera and planning their own seduction operations on the famous movie star. In this battle of giants, Ali emerged victorious. He whisked Rita away to Paris, London, and Madrid, helping her overcome her post-divorce blues from her previous husband Orson Welles.
However, married life with Ali proved to be disappointing for Rita. She hoped to find some respite from her exhausting Hollywood schedule by spending time alone with Ali in one of his many villas. But Ali either could not or did not want to change his lifestyle. He suffered from loneliness when not surrounded by a crowd of people and struggled with the fact that he did not have to fly or sail to another continent or even another country within a couple of hours. Rita returned to America, taking their daughter Yasmin with her, and became the first woman to leave Ali Khan. They officially divorced in 1953, and Ali resumed his familiar way of life, jetting from one country to another, sometimes spending only a few hours in each place, never leaving the luxurious suites of the finest hotels his plane landed in.
Ali's reputation as one of the most famous playboys of the time reached such heights that one of his contemporaries remarked, "If a woman had not been in bed with Ali at least once, she was considered outdated, hopelessly out of touch with fashion and life, an empty space that no one paid any attention to."
Despite constantly changing women as frequently as horses or cars, Ali's romances with them were so passionate and satisfying that few of them had any complaints. Juliette Greco was simply in awe of the coordination and thoughtfulness of all Ali's actions. Kim Novak declared that after being with Ali, all other men seemed "half-dead" to her. Actress Jean Tierney's first thought after meeting Ali was, "Just what I needed, to meet another Eastern super-stallion." But soon after, Jean fell so deeply in love with Ali that she even hoped to marry him.
Ali's most famous affair was with Lady Furness, who had been a companion to the Prince of Wales until she met and fell in love with Ali. Angry, Edward VIII began a romance with American Wallis Simpson, eventually abdicating the English throne for her.
Ali always claimed, "When I love a woman, I only think about how to give her pleasure." He received a unique sexual education in Cairo, where his father sent him as a young boy specifically for that purpose. The sexual technique he learned from the Arabs was called "imsak." One of Ali's partners described her experiences with him, saying, "Regardless of how many women Ali had, he rarely reached orgasm himself. He could engage in sex for hours but would only allow himself to climax no more than twice a week. He enjoyed the impression his sexual technique made on women. He loved it when they lost control. He, on the other hand, always maintained control over his actions and was always the dominant one."
Ali Khan once stated, "They called me the 'cursed dark-skinned man.' I got back at them all. I took away all their women."
