'Sultan' on trial for fraud charges
New York Newsday, June 3
... He called himself Sultan Ibn Chandler Sabah al Sabah Dantata..... a member of the Kuwaiti royal family, a medical doctor with degrees from Harvard, Oxford and Yale who ran a family financial company and whose "real life work" was to write books for children.
Emi Iijimi, 38, a single mother and illustrator who came to New York from Japan three years ago...e met this "prince" on July 13, 2002, after he posted a sign in a Japanese grocery store in Astoria, Queens, looking for an illustrator.
"He also told me that his grandfather at one time served as the chairman of OPEC, and his family was the seventh wealthiest family on the planet," Iijimi recalled... Iijimi, who said her own family has connections to the Japanese imperial family, believed Dantata, who proposed to her on their second date. She loaned him money, starting in October 2002, when "in a very depressed manner," he said his bank accounts were frozen because someone had embezzled money at his company ---and he didn't want to ask his parents.