Aisha Gaddafi's Private Photo Collection Reveals 'Africa's Claudia Schiffer' (Photos)

Huffington Post UK     First Posted: 30/08/11 18:57   Updated: 02/11/11 10:12

The fall of the Libyan regime has allowed many glimpses into the Gaddafi family lifestyle, revealing everything from their taste in gold mermaid furniture, their penchant for bad murals of sports cars and their apparent enjoyment of alcohol (despite the somewhat awkward fact that it was banned in the country by Gaddafi himself).

However, perhaps none of these revelations has been quite so bizarre and unexpected as the private photo album of Colonel Gaddafi's only biological daughter, Aisha Gaddafi.

Aisha herself is a bit of a surprise, in fact.

Known as the "The Claudia Schiffer of North Africa" by the Arab press, not only is she a Western-educated, dyed-blonde lawyer who worked for the defence in the trial of Saddam Hussein, Aisha is also a former UN goodwill ambassador and a defender of women's rights.

On the other hand she has always been a staunch defender of her father's regime, the IRA and various other groups with poor records on human rights.

Now fled to Algeria with many members of her family, it was announced on Tuesday that Aisha Gaddafi had also given birth to her fourth child, thought to be with her cousin Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi, who was a colonel in the army before he was reportedly killed in fighting last month.

To learn more about the strange and glamorous life of Gaddafi's daughter take a look at these photos from her private collection, released after they were raided by rebel fighters in Tripoli.

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The fall of the Libyan regime has allowed many glimpses into the Gaddafi family lifestyle, revealing everything from their taste in gold mermaid furniture, their penchant for bad murals of sports cars...
The fall of the Libyan regime has allowed many glimpses into the Gaddafi family lifestyle, revealing everything from their taste in gold mermaid furniture, their penchant for bad murals of sports cars...
 
 
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20:07 on 25/10/2011
Ayisha Schiffer
12:39 on 08/09/2011
Really pretty woman.
She is beautiful.
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Comeplayinmyreality
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21:47 on 06/09/2011
Ha! not even close.
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eXpresso
18:29 on 06/09/2011
Is Gaddafi's Daughter The Next Claudia Schiffer?

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an emphatic NO.
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mumi009
"The truth will set you free"
11:14 on 06/09/2011
The devil wears Prada?
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Enzo Ferrari
19:45 on 05/09/2011
This is one of those times when I am in favor of the burka
19:24 on 05/09/2011
"Africas Claudia Schiffer" ???
Even if she tried very, very hard, Claudia Schiffer could never look that cheap. Lips and all.
18:58 on 05/09/2011
Not real. Fake. African Claudia Schiffer would be Black Woman!
18:39 on 05/09/2011
She looks like Octomom... and that ain't good.
18:38 on 05/09/2011
Uhhhhhhhhhh NO!
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17:21 on 05/09/2011
Big lips!
16:12 on 05/09/2011
these photos hardly provide damning evidence of the gaddhafi regime's arrogance, hypocrisy, or even poor taste.
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AhnessofThings
07:35 on 12/09/2011
I agree, and she undeniably an attractive woman. The photos are from her childhood, her wedding or apparently her girlfriends. How is her sitting on a mermaid furniture with what seems to be a wedding dress any worse than the fracas and all the money spent at the british royal wedding. And how do you know how mermaid furniture -which seems to be fantasy, a theme party - perceived in that country.
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16:12 on 05/09/2011
Claudia Schiffer NOT! What an insult.
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skyslimit
11:32 on 05/09/2011
Don't you mean Africa's Claudio Schiffer?
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Dare Taiwo
A Pragmatist and a Pundit
10:10 on 05/09/2011
IS IT NOW TIME TO GLOAT ABOUT THE DRESS SENSE OF AN ARAB WOMAN?

The Western Media never ceases to amaze me.