Saudi princess flees French capital after running up €5.7m hotel bill

A shopaholic Saudi princess who fled a luxury hotel in Paris in the middle of the night to dodge a €5.7m hotel bill is to have her assets in France seized.

However, the “assets” are €12m worth of leather goods, artworks, jewellery, and designer clothes for which she never paid.

Maha al Sudani, the former wife of Saudi Arabian crown prince Nayef ben Abdel Aziz, was spotted directing her entourage of 60 to load suitcases into a fleet of limousines outside the Shangri-La Hotel at 3.30am on May 31 last year.