Pamella Bordes

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Pamella Bordes, born Pamella Singh Choudhary (born 1961) is an Indian-born photographer and former Miss India who briefly hit the headlines in the United Kingdom in 1988 and 1989 as the mistress and escort^[1]^[2]^[3] of several notable individuals, including billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. She had been known in society columns as a social companion of then Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil and of junior minister Colin Moynihan; it was then discovered she had a House of Commons security pass arranged by MPs David Shaw and Henry Bellingham. The Evening Standard published allegations that she was associated with a Libyan security official named Ahmed Gadaff Al Daim, raising issues similar to the 1960s Profumo affair, or more broadly the World War I spy Mata Hari.

Bordes was born in Rajasthan, her father was an officer in the Indian Army. She attended the Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls’ Public School in Jaipur until 1979 when she transferred to the Lady Sri Ram College in Delhi to study literature. She won the Miss India crown in 1982 and represented India in the Miss Universe pageant the same year. She subsequently moved to Europe, where she met and married Henri Bordes. She spent years recovering from scars after a moped accident in Bali. She and her friend Rachael while riding on a small moped, were chased by the paparazzi until the moped eventually crashed. Both she and her friend Rachael sustained injuries to their faces and bodies. Not long afterwards, the local Bali police came up with a plan to help her escape the paparazzi and she left the island of Bali. Eventually she had plastic surgery for her facial injuries. Since her period of notoriety she has become a contemporary photographer and has resumed using her birth name.

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