Background
Yeslam bin Ladin is a Saudi national of Persian and Yemeni heritage (through his mother and father, respectively). His father, Mohammed bin Laden, died when he was 17 years old.
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Education
University of Gothenburg.
Career
They live in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has lived in Switzerland since the mid-1980s, and became a Swiss citizen in April 2001. He speaks Arabic, English, French and Persian.
An ex-girlfriend of his from 1993 to 2001, Catherine Berclaz, is a Swiss interior decorator who wrote a book on their relationship, Yeslam, My Love: In the Heart of the Bin Laden Family.
He has three daughters, Wafah Dufour, Najia, and Noor, and has reportedly not spoken to them for more than 15 years because of their western customs. Wafah (Dufour) Binladin earned a law degree from Geneva University, and a master"s degree from Colombia Law School in New-New York
In 2006 she appeared in a men"s magazine, Gentlemen’s Quarterly. She has lived in New York and now resides in London. After attending high school in Beirut, Lebanon, Bin Ladin studied economics at Göteborg University, Sweden, and business administration at University of Southern California. On February 25, 2005, he was granted permission by the Swiss government to use the name bin Ladin to brand products for his business including a perfume for men and women dubbed "Yeslam," and a second one for women "Passion," and other goods such as handbags, accessories, and watches under the name "Yeslam." Shops opened in Geneva (1), in Jeddah (2), in Riyadh (1), in Mecca, in Damman (1) (Saudi Arabia) and in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).
He hires creators and chooses the creations, but he is not himself a designer.
He has a pilot"s license, like his father, and owns a Learjet. Since 1980, Yeslam has been chairman of the Geneva, Switzerland-based Saudi Investment Company (SICO), which represents his family"s Saudi Binladin Group"s international financial interests. His fortune was estimated to have peaked at 300 million Swiss Francs, but is now thought to be below 100 million.
