Saudi Prince Arrested For Sex Crime At Beverly Hills Mansion

Saudi Arabian Prince Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud was arrested on Wednesday at his rented Beverly Hills estate by the LAPD for an alleged sex crime, says the L.A. Times.

Police officials responded to a “disturbance” reported by a caretaker at the luxurious compound located in a gated community on Wallingford Drive. After the LAPD detained Al-Saud for “hours,” they arrested the 28-year old Saudi prince on suspicion of “forced oral copulation.”

Al-Saud is accused of forcing a household worker to perform oral sex.

Tennyson Collins, a neighbor of the Saudi prince, reported a “bleeding woman screaming for help” trying to climb an 8-foot wall, according to the L.A. Times. Tennyson Collins did not see the woman, but did talk to an unnamed resident who described the scene to him.

Prince Al-Saud was released on a $300,000 bail this Thursday afternoon.

Prince Al-Saud will not receive diplomatic immunity in this case, said LAPD Captain Tina Nieto to the L.A. Times.

He has been instructed to appear at court on October 19.

The Beverly Hills property, where Al-Saud was arrested, is over 22,000-square-foot and valued at $37 million by real estate site Zillow. The property has been rented by numerous foreign nationals at “weeks at a time,” Collins told the L.A. Times.

“Obviously neighbors aren’t happy about it, but it is what it is,” said Collins.

U.S. State Department officials have yet to comment on the case, says the L.A. Times.

The Saudi prince is not to be confused with a different Saudi prince also named Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud who died in 2003.

This post will be updated as details emerge.

UPDATE: The L.A. Times is reporting that Prince Al-Saud is now being investigated for sexually abusing other women. Other victims have reported to detectives that they were sexually assaulted by Al-Saud, LAPD Officer Drake Madison told the L.A. Times.

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