Prince pays SR1m to buy own Bentley back

Saudi billionaire Prince Al Waleed bin Talal bought his own Bentley car he had gifted to a local actor who donated it to a Saudi boy grieved by the loss of his family in a car accident in the Gulf Kingdom, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

The prince paid SR1 million for the car although it had fetched a price much below that in an auction held in Riyadh to support Yousuf bin Abu Bakr Al Ansari, Sabq said.

“The Prince ordered the purchase of a house for that sum to be gifted to the boy so he can live in it. He also decided to pay all school fees for Al Ansari until his graduation,” the Arabic language daily added.

Saudi actor Fayez Al Malki had decided to donate the Bentley to Al Ansari after he was told about his distress during a visit to a hospital in the capital Riyadh.

Newspapers said Al Malki visited the injured boy at hospital and offered condolence on the death of his parents and two sisters.

Malki was the UN Goodwill Ambassador for Gulf countries in 2012, but resigned later on the grounds Unicef is not helping children in war-battered Syria.

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