Harvard professor, hedge-fund millionaire, and “court historian for the imperial American hard right“ Niall
Ferguson is leaving his wife for a feminist filmmaker he met at the Time
100 party. Sex! Scandal! Murderous Muslim clerics! This story has it all.
Ferguson (whose career highs include defending
colonialism and parlaying books about the Rothschild dynasty into a lucrative
Rothschild-endorsed hedge fund career) is divorcing his wife of sixteen years,
former editor and Condé Nasty Susan Douglas, reports The Daily Mail.
Niall’s new lovah: Somali-born
filmmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali. After meeting at a party for Time’s
100 Most Influential People in the World, Niall and Ayaan launched into the
most glamorously snobby, geopolitically thrilling forbidden love since
Cleopatra and both Roman triumvirates:
Just two weeks ago they attended the Jaipur Literary
Festival in India where they were photographed kissing in the opulent
surroundings of the spectacular Diggi Palace.
Ms Hirsi Ali had been flown to the event secretly.
She has been the subject of threats from Muslim extremists since writing the
script for the movie Submission, which was critical of Islam.
...[Time art editor Belinda] Luscombe, a
friend of Ms Hirsi Ali, said: “I think [the Time 100 party] is where they
met for the first time. In all the years I have known Ayaan, she’s never had a
boyfriend. She’s gorgeous, but with a fatwa, it’s tricky to find guys.”
Other people who come up in this story: Henry
Kissinger and British historian Sir Alistair Horne (who knew of the affair
before it went public), a member of Parliament, and seven other mistresses. Now
check out this ridiculous quote:
“There was a point when it was not impossible for me
to get $100,000 for a one-hour speech at some extravagant hedge-fund manager
conference in an exotic location,” Ferguson recalled.
...and this one:
Says a friend: “Niall has a fair few enemies who feel
he has got above his station, but Sue always stood by him. The marriage was
fine for 13 years, then when Niall went to America, it all started to go
wrong.”
Always the wayward colonies. Final question: Who were
his seven other mistresses? Is Henry Kissinger the keeper of those secrets,
too?
[A link to an article on DailyMail]
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