Penélope Heilmann will never forget the year 2008. At that time, when she was only 20 years old, she reported having been the victim of an alleged sexual assault in Ibiza by the sheikh Al Waleed Bin Talal, close friend of the king emeritus, Juan Carlos I. In an interview, the model opened up on the channel about the nightmare that she experienced and that, finally, was archived four years later. Even Queen Sofia participated in this story.
Almost two decades later, Heilmann has recalled how the alleged rape happened. She has done it in The digital closure, where he has shown his indignation about how the events occurred in court. The case was closed, reopened, and finally the court of Palma de Mallorca decided to close it permanently in March 2012, after four years of fighting in the courts.
The plaintiff, according to the Spanish judge, did not present conclusive evidence that the Arab sheikh who abused her was indeed Alwaleed bin Talal, who For his part, he claimed to be in Paris on car day. However, the woman says that the sheikh was on the Balearic island, and that there, after noticing her, he invited her to his yacht. “I didn’t want to go up alone… I preferred that the driver go up with me. Finally I went up, introduced myself and took off the sandals I was wearing. There were the girls who were supposedly princesses, I exchanged phones with them and that’s it.” According to Heilmann, she later learned that the young women were prostitutes.
“I remember we went up to the top of the yacht, where there was a mini jacuzzi. He invited me to have champagne and told me he could give me anything I wanted. He got violent because he wanted to show me the stars and I didn’t want to. So I ended up throwing him into the jacuzzi with all his things… He started speaking Arabic and from the sound of it, it was anything but pretty. I wanted to leave there and the boy who was supposedly the driver told me: ‘Do you know what you just did?’ I didn’t care, I didn’t want to see the stars. And I left,” he adds.
“I woke up from a kiss from the sheikh”
The next day, the model went with the ‘princesses’ to the Divino nightclub, “what is now Lío Ibiza.” “On many occasions, modeling agencies are aware of these types of networks that recruit girls for prostitution,” she explains. “I didn’t know where I was, I just remember that I went up in an elevator and saw a Dantesque image. It was chaos. Naked girls dancing, all the drugs you can imagine, I wanted to get out of there… I didn’t like that atmosphere. That night That’s when they raped me. I had not yet had sexual relations with any boy. I remember that I woke up from a kiss that the sheikh gave me, who abused me.”
Heilmann affirms that, after the case was filed, his mother managed to speak with the Queen Sofia. “She did everything she could to help us, But King Juan Carlos I, for his part, did everything possible to close the case quickly due to the ties of friendship that unite him with Alwaleed bin Talal, the man who raped me,” he laments.
Billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal is the richest man in Saudi Arabia with a fortune of 16.5 billion. He spent several years in prison for corruption, but He is currently free. The sheikh, who became the richest prisoner in the world, golden plane, is a friend of King Juan Carlos and negotiated with Corinna on more than one occasion.