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Majed Abdulaziz
Al-Saud was arrested on Sept. 23 at a gated mansion in Beverly
Hills and booked on suspicion of trying to force an employee to
perform oral sex, police said. He was released on $300,000 bond
the next day, according to police and online jail records.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said on Monday
they had declined to bring felony charges and referred the case
to the Los Angeles City Attorney for consideration of possible
misdemeanor charges, a spokeswoman said.
A spokesman for the city attorney said the case remained under
review by that office but no decision has been made.
Al-Saud's attorney, Alan Jackson, told the Los Angeles Times the
29-year-old was innocent.
“The decision by the D.A.’s office not to file charges shows
that the accuser’s stories cannot be substantiated," he said.
"The sheik is very happy to put it behind him and move on with
his life," he told the newspaper.
The Saudi prince was arrested after someone called authorities
to report a bleeding woman screaming and trying to scale a wall
of the estate he was renting in Beverly Hills, one of the most
exclusive enclaves in the world, a neighbor told the Los Angeles
Times last month.
Al-Saud was named in a civil suit filed in late September by
three women who allege he sexually harassed them between Sept.
21 and Sept 23 in Beverly Hills, City News Service reported.
An attorney for the estate employee who accused him of assault
at the home could not immediately be located.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman and Victoria Cavaliere in Los
Angeles; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)
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