Osama Bin Ladin's niece in new reality show
 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's niece, an aspiring singer who posed for a sexy photo shoot in a men's magazine last year, has signed up for a reality television show about her life and her as yet unfulfilled "quest for stardom."


Wafah Dufour Bin Ladin, whose mother was married to the al Qaeda leader's half brother, was born in California but lived in Saudi Arabia from the age of three to 10.

"I understand that when people hear my last name, they have preconceived notions, but I was born an American and I love my country," Dufour said in a statement from ReganMedia announcing the deal to develop a reality TV series.

Dufour has dropped the "Bin Ladin" -- a different spelling of the Arabic name from that used by Osama bin Laden -- and now goes by the name Wafah Dufour.

Based in New York, Dufour has been promoting herself as a musician and last December appeared in a sultry GQ photo spread, reclining on satin sheets wrapped in feathers and posing in a bubble bath wearing nothing but a necklace.

"Her story will bridge the gap that people feel exists between the cultures she has lived in," ReganMedia President Judith Regan said.

"She is also a young woman who falls in love, has her heart broken, worries about her looks, doesn't always listen to her mother, and hasn't spoken to her father in years," Regan said.

Dufour's mother Carmen bin Ladin wrote the 2004 bestseller "Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia," an account of her rocky marriage to Yeslama, Osama's half-brother, who amassed a fortune in the family's construction business and started his own investment firm.

Dufour, who earned a master's degree in law from Columbia University, was in Geneva with her mother at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks. She had said in the past she has never met Osama bin Laden.

She cites U2, Depeche Mode, The Cure and The Cranberries among her musical influences.

Regan has published a string of celebrity authors including Michael Moore and porn star Jenna Jameson, and she was an executive producer on the reality show "Growing Up Gotti" about members of the family best known for its Mafia empire.

The statement did not say when the show would be aired or on what channel

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so to show she's not a terrorist she poses nude???


another reality show about nothing how grand... if they make a reality show for her they need to do a reality show in the hood!

OK, so maybe I'm a cynic, but it appears to me that here is a fairly good looking, marginally talented woman trying to make it big by letting us all know that she is related to one of the world's most wanted people -- but she's the nice side of the family.

They did. It was called The Real, Real World and Dave Chapelle was in it.

-Rudey

If that makes you a cynic, it makes me a bigger one!

Why would anyone hold the fact that she's related to someone awful against her? That's not her fault.

I agree.

I had never heard of this lady before now

I don't like this. She obviously has the right to do this, but she's clearly trading on the fact that she's "uncle bin's" niece. what else has she done to merit a show?

I think if I were a family member of someone lost in 9/11, this would really be offensive. Hollywood, like many things in America, turns on the dollar. I see protests, letter-writing campaigns towards the production company, network that produces the show. ....folks will try to shut this down.

I think she's lovely. It would be wonderful to see her represent herself well (though I don't think that's possible in the reality world.) I'd like to know what angle their going to take on this one.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...Qfeature2v.jpg

Ironically, Osama will think its offensive as well. I wonder if he will consider it an honor violation against his family?

it happens all the time in this country..

hell it happens when people aren't even related and just look alike.


y t.

I don't think people hold it against her that she lost the genetic lottery when it comes to relatives (but obviously not when it comes to looks), but people are going to hold it against her that she's using the notarity of her uncle to make a name for herself.

people probably held it against her prior to her even thinking about a show.

True. She really can't win either way. If she didn't mention it, someone would find out eventually and then people would be pissed that she kept it hidden.

She is freaking gorgeous.