Was found dead in the bed of her home in Marbella, in Spain. The former Qatari princess, Kasia Gallanio, was 45 years old and the ex-wife of Abdelaziz bin Khalifa Al-Thani, uncle of the Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and former Minister of Oil and Finance.
According to El Paisit would have been one of Gallanio’s three daughters to alert the Spanish authorities, after having tried in vain to contact their mother.
The former model – American of Polish descent – was fighting a tough one legal battle for the custody of the three underage daughters (two twins aged 17 and one 15), who live in Paris with their father.
In early April, one of the girls accused her parent of sexual harassment, which she suffered when she was 9 to 15 years old. A few days later, the Paris prosecutor’s office had opened a preliminary investigation for aggravated sexual violence. The harassment of the teenage daughter would begin “after the mother’s departure.” As she reported Le Parisien, the man allegedly “sexually assaulted her and forced her to sleep in her own bed after her mother left.” She “started to treat me as her wife,” the girl reported to investigators.
According to the first elements that emerged, the cause of the death of the former princess would be an overdose, but it will be the autopsy to confirm this hypothesis or not. The woman, as her lawyer says, was going through a period of deep pain over her family history. She was also her strongly tried by depression and alcoholismwhich he was trying to deal with: he had taken detoxification paths several times.
Kasia Gallanio was the third wife of Abdelaziz ben Khalifa Bin Hamad Al-Thani: she had met him when she was 19 and they were married in 2004. The former minister of Qatar, first son of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Khalifa, was born in 1948 and has lived for thirty years in France, on Avenue Montaigne, a residence of 5,000 square meters.
Source: Vanity Fair
