Royal family of brunei, It's good to be the prince. Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei has dropped billions of dollars on call girls, hundreds of cars, hotels, paintings and a yacht named T-ts -- and has billions more still in the bank -- as he leads a decadent life that would make Caligula blush.
Over the years, the perv prince has been sued -- along with his brother, the Sultan of Brunei -- by an ex-Miss USA accusing them of running a white-slavery ring out of their 1,788-room place. He's also been sued by his own brother for swindling nearly $15 billion from their tiny, oil-rich country.
Now, Prince Jefri, 56, is set to take a Manhattan courtroom by storm next week at a trial that could feature six life-size statues that he commissioned depicting him having sex with his latest fiancée -- a narcissistic set of kitsch for his Long Island mansion that set him back $1 million.
If that isn't odd enough, Jefri's lawsuit against two financial advisers he claims screwed him out of $7 million has been effectively bankrolled by the same brother who accused him of corruption.
A Manhattan judge issued a gag order in the case yesterday after Jefri's lawyer griped over news stories detailing the statues.
"I'm always amazed at Prince Jefri's capacity to take decadence to its absolute extreme manifestation and to be a colorful character," said Jillian Lauren, 37, a former NYU student whose book "Some Girls: My Life in a Harem" details her past life as one of his dozens of paid paramours.
"The statues don't surprise me a bit," Lauren told The Post. "The palace had giant gold tigers that served as the base of a coffee table. They held precious stones in their mouths.
"I had never seen anything like that in my life."
Although he has four current wives and has been divorced twice, Jefri has never let the bonds of matrimony keep him from bedding other women.
The prince, who has 17 children by seven women, at one point was spending upward of $250 million per year just to keep pricey calls girls, centerfolds and runaway teens on payrolls of companies linked to his family's sultanate.
On at least one occasion, Jefri was entertained by up to 40 hookers at once at London's Dorchester Hotel, which his family owned.
Former Miss USA Shannon Marketic, now 38, sued the prince and the sultan in 1997 for holding her against her will as a sex slave in Brunei.
Her suit claimed she and other young women were lured into traveling there under false pretenses. It said that their passports were confiscated on arrival and that they were checked for sexually transmitted diseases.
Marketic said she and the other women were routinely groped, fondled and otherwise sexually assaulted in the palace, where they were forced to show up for late-night disco parties to entertain Jefri's pals.
"You are whores, and I do not know why Boss paid so much money for you," one employee of Brunei's royal family allegedly told the women. "You are the worst group of whores we have ever had over here."
Jefri and the sultan got the suit tossed after claiming diplomatic immunity.
Marketic told The Post yesterday that news of Jefri's Kama Sutra-inspired statues of himself and a lover were not surprising, except for the fact that they show "willing participants, and not anyone being held against their will, duped or doped. I'd say that's an improvement."
The statues are just one example of how Prince Jefri is often thinking about sex when he doesn't happen to be having it.
Jefri had to sell off or surrender many of his possessions -- including "over 600 properties, over 2,000 cars, over 100 paintings, five boats and nine aircraft" -- to settle his brother's $15 billion fraud claim but luckily "still retained billions of dollars in other holdings," a Delaware judge noted in a 2008 court ruling.
Those holdings are rumored to include a cache of diamonds valued at more than $1 billion, which lawyers defending his former financial advisers reportedly intend to grill him about when he takes the witness stand in Manhattan Supreme Court next week.
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