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| Kola Boof | |
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| Born | 1968 Sudan |
| Occupation | writer, poet |
| Known for | described being kidnapped by Osama bin Laden, and forced into a sexual relationship |
Kola Boof (b. 1968) is an author and former model, who was born in wartime Sudan, orphaned, and adopted by an American family.[1][2]
In 2002, Boof initially denied reports by The Guardian that she was a former lover of Osama bin Laden, but later offered her own account of living as an involuntary concubine to bin Laden, for six months, in 1996, in Marrakesh, Morocco.[1]
Early life
Boof's father was an Egyptian Arab, her mother a Somalia girl, however, since she was born in the Sudan she considers herself Sudanese.[1] Her father was politically active, and was disowned by his Egyptian family, hence his move to Sudan. She was six years old when she was orphaned.[3] She describes the family that adopted her and eight other children raising her in poverty, in Washington D.C.. As a teenager she competed in a beauty pageant and describes becoming the mistress of one of the pageant's judges. Boof became a model.
Boof's account of her relationship with Osama bin Laden
According to Boof she had a creepy feeling about Osama bin Laden, when she first met him, and congratulated herself that none of his bodyguards had followed her home, only to find that she had been followed, and that bin Laden had chosen her as a concubine.[1] She describes their first sexual encounter as a rape. But, citing the example of Patty Hearst she objects to being described as a "sex slave". She points out that Patty Hearst was raped, and held captive, but she is never described as a "sex slave".
According to Boof, Osama bin Laden was obsessed with American singer Whitney Houston.[1] According to Boof, Osama bin Laden routinely smoked cannabis. According to Boof, even though conservative muslims frown on pornography, Osama bin Laden carried around Playboy magazines. Boof says bin Laden wanted her to wear her hair like Whitney Houston's; said that Houston looked inherently Islamic, and had been brainwashed by American culture, and by her husband Bobby Brown; that Houston was the only black woman he had considered marrying; that he had considered having Bobby Brown assassinated.
She describes being allowed to go free when bin Laden tired of her, and that they parted with substantial gifts.[1] She claims her account of the involuntary nature of her time with Bin Laden had been confirmed by Fabrizzio Ruspoli, the owner of the bed & breakfast where bin Laden held her.[2]
Books
In addition to her 2006 memoirs, "Diary of a lost girl" Boof has written several novels.[4] Boof also wrote for several American soap operas.
| year | title | publisher |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | The Sexy Part of the Bible | Akashic |
| 2010 | Virgins In the Beehive | Atlantic Library |
| 2006 | Diary of a Lost Girl | |
| 2004 | Flesh and the Devil | |
| 2004 | Long Train to the Redeeming Sin | |
| 2004 | Nile River Woman |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Stay Black and Live" : Kola Boof Talks to Seattle, The Seattlest, 2011-08-21. Retrieved on 2011-08-23. “At the age of six, she witnessed both of her parents being killed. While she hoped to go live with her “Auntie,”, a lesbian who was accused of witchcraft (“we’re very superstitious in Africa”, she quipped) and jailed. Boof ended up an orphan and was adopted through UNICEF, her adoptive parents raised her among eight other children in what she calls “the ghetto of D.C..””
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kola Boof. Being Hitler’s Girlfriend: Bin Laden’s Mistress Sets The Record Straight, Atlanta Post, 2011-04-28. Retrieved on 2011-08-23. “Luckily, I had very good witnesses to my experience with Bin Laden. The Italian born Prince Fabrizzio Ruspoli (owner of La Maison Arabe, at that time a bed and breakfast in Morocco’s Medina where Osama kept me) and Ruspoli’s lover Phillipe were the ones who saved me and my children from being deported by telling the U.S. State Department the truth—that I had appeared to be unhappy living with Bin Laden and that I clearly wasn’t free to leave the estate without Somi’s guards.”
- ↑ Julie Salamon. Fatwa Victim or a Fraud?; Mystery Enshrouds Kola Boof, Writer and Internet Persona, The New York Times, 2002-12-02. Retrieved on 2021-07-17.
- ↑ Writer: Kola BOof, Publishers Marketplace. Retrieved on 2021-07-17.
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