Roxy founder was one of Saudi Arabian arms dealer's 11 'pleasure wives'

The founder of surf fashion brand Roxy has revealed she was once one of a Saudi Arabian arms dealer’s 11 ‘pleasure wives.’

The New York Post reports, ahead of the release of her memoir, The Currency of Love: A Courageous Journey to Finding the Love Within, Jill Dodd first met the billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi at a party in Monte Carlo in 1980.

Dodd, who was 20 at the time and has just started modelling, went to a pirate party in Cannes where she met Khashoggi.

“It was too loud to talk so he pulled me up to dance,” she said.

“Suddenly, my dance partner stopped, grabbed a chair and threw it into the fire.

“I hurled one in too.”

She said she only realised after he walked away that he was a wealthy entrepreneur and one of the most well-known men from Saudi Arabia.

After a second party on board a yacht, which later was used in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again, she said she “slowly began falling for his charms.”

“Adnan quizzed me about my non-existent romantic life and explained how he made his fortune exporting American-made vehicles to Saudi Arabia,” Dodd said.

“He told me that the party at Le Pirate had cost him $25,000 — they send you a bill based on the destruction you caused — and that it cost around $400,000 per month to keep the yacht.”

After being courted, and despite there being other girls in the picture, Dodd agreed to be one of Khashoggi’s ‘pleasure wives.’

“Even though he was 24 years older than me, he was an extraordinary lover,” she said.

As the months went by Dodd said there were always other women around her and Khashoggi, some of whom she couldn’t tell if they were “fellow leisure wives, casual lovers or flirtatious friends.”

While she initially tolerated the situation the relationship turned sour by 1982.

Dodd said she felt “increasingly weird about it all” and became worried about AIDS.

“I didn’t know who else Adnan was sleeping with and it terrified me,” she said.

“Another driving force was my need to be independent.”

By summer 1982 Dodd had ended the relationship and in 1989 went on to establish clothing brand Roxy.

Now a mother of a three children and married to her third husband for 18 years, Dodd said while she was thankful for her relationship with Khashoggi, she had learned a valuable lesson.

“Neither money nor love are worth the sacrifice of integrity, inner peace and authenticity,” she said.

Dodd’s book is set for release on June 6.