Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, April 12, 1993 TAG: 9304120001
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From wire reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
PEOPLE
How to survive when the remodelers show up? No problem for Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the ambassador from Saudi Arabia whose 38-room home overlooking the Potomac is getting a facelift.He snapped up a smaller mansion next door as a place to live while the remodelers are at work. Price tag: $4.7 million.
The houses are on a prime strip of McLean, Va., across the Potomac from the nation's capital. Neighbors include Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and Charles Robb, D-Va.
The prince, a fighter pilot, falconer and nephew of Saudi King Fahd, reportedly plans to build an addition to his house as well as new tennis courts, servants' quarters and a 40-space garage.
Last year, he paid $2 million for another nearby home, then tore it down to get a better view of the river from huge windows in his two-story living room.
The Washington Post said Saturday the prince's estate now covers 12 acres and is valued at $15.3 million in county tax records.
Fawn Hall, Oliver North's former secretary, is engaged to Danny Sugarman, the author of books about rock 'n' roll.
Hall, 33, and Sugarman will be married in a small, private ceremony Friday in Los Angeles, where they both live, said his publicist, Lori Rick, at St. Martin's Press.
"They've been together for a couple of years," said Plato Cacheris, former attorney to Hall.
Hall was North's secretary at the National Security Council office in the White House complex for almost four years. When the Iran-Contra scandal broke, her testimony during televised congressional hearings made her an overnight celebrity in 1987.
Hall testified that she had smuggled papers out of North's office in the back of her blouse and helped him shred Iran-Contra documents to foil the attorney general's investigation of his activities.
Sugarman co-wrote a best-selling biography of the Doors' Jim Morrison, "No One Here Gets Out Alive," and chronicled another rock group in "Appetite for Destruction - The Days of Guns n' Roses."