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London, Mar 6 (ANI): A Bulgarian former nightclub dancer, who had a six-year fling with Saadi Gaddafi, has revealed how the third son of Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi squandered millions on his breathtakingly extravagant lifestyle.

Dafinka Mircheva, then 21, said that his aides told her he spent 170 million pounds a year on private jets, five-star hotels, supercars, lap-dancers, jewels and designer clothes.

“Money was no object. He would always have a black suitcase stuffed with thousands of banknotes. If he ran out, he would call the embassy and they would have more delivered to his hotel,” the Daily Mail quoted her as saying.

Dafinka said Saadi paid 500,000 pounds for her favourite pop group, The Pussycat Dolls, to perform for her at his birthday party in Cannes in the South of France.

She said that he was banned from several five-star hotels. She also found him to be like an immature - if spoilt - child, who begged her constantly to love him and enjoyed nothing more than taking his entourage to Disneyland Paris.

On an evening in May 2004, the couple was at the Pink Paradise club in a Paris business district and in no time they started seeing each other.

Dafinka said Saadi would return to Paris by private jet every few weeks to woo her. And in Paris, she said he would hire two black limousines and a team of bodyguards. He would book a suite at the 3,500pounds-a-night George V or Plaza Athenee hotels.

Within a few months, he gave her 20,000 pounds of Bulgari jewellery-earrings, a ring and necklace made of white gold and studded with diamonds, she said.

However, once they started dating each other, he came to Paris less frequently, recalled Dafinka.

“We sometimes slept in the same bed and kissed but I never had sex with him. I didn’t want to as I knew he would sleep with lots of women. And I knew the closer I got to him the more difficult it would be for me and that still scared me. It drove him mad,” she said.

She said he bought her 25,000 pounds designer dresses and spent 10,000 pounds on dinner at Raspoutine, a Russian restaurant in Paris. He is said to have owned a purple Bugatti Veyron road car worth one million pounds.

“Saadi will never look at the price. He doesn’t care. Someone else always pays the bill,” she said.

Dafinka claimed her proximity to Saadi meant she saw both sides of his personality-the spoilt, autocratic multi-millionaire who considers himself royalty and the emotionally stunted boy.

“His entourage was mainly Libyans. He would call them all his servants. I told him many times not to tell people that. He told me, “I do what I want. I want to call them servants.

“Sometimes he would slap them. He was quite good with me but with others he didn’t care,” she said.

She added, “Another time, I went to his room at Plaza Athenee and found him sleeping in bed with another man. They were under the covers and their top halves were naked. I also saw him take drugs but only once. It was in the private room of a club and he offered me cocaine.” (ANI)