The Richest Arms Dealer Ever: Adnan Khashoggi

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Adnan Khashoggi was born in Mecca — but his life was anything but pious. The billionaire had multiple wives, girlfriends and armies of callgirls, not to mention gambling sessions and club nights whose costs ran into the millions of dollars. Khashoggi made his first riches shipping arms from the US to Saudi Arabia. But soon his “fees,” and the ways he got them, began to catch up with him. And dalliances in politics, bad investments, and some friends in dark places, would send the life of the ‘world’s richest man’ into a criminal tailspin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Ready to launch your business?
0:31.6	Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.
0:34.8	Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business
0:38.9	with easy customizable themes
0:40.8	that let you build your brand,
0:42.4	marketing tools that get your products out there.
0:44.7	Integrated shipping solutions
0:45.9	that actually save you time.
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0:49.3	online, in person and on the go.
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1:00.1	It's January 1987 and Adnan Khashoggi has just pulled off one of the world's top-tier
1:06.1	PR coos. His portrait is on the cover of Time magazine.
1:13.4	Koshoggi's features are soft, his balding head, do-eyes and black broom moustache that of an avuncular university lecturer
1:18.7	or a mid-ranking snooker pro. His career, however, is far less cute. Those shadowy arms
1:25.7	dealers, the headline reads, adding Adnan Khashoggi's high life and flashy
1:31.2	deals.
1:32.7	The feature begins with a list of the era's most notorious gun runners, Sarkis Saganlian, for
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