Saudi prince arrested on sex crime charge

LOS ANGELES — A Saudi prince who allegedly tried to force a female worker to perform a sex act on him inside a massive property near Beverly Hills has now been accused of attacking other women in the home, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 28, was arrested this week on suspicion of forced oral copulation of an adult and freed Thursday on $300,000 bail.

Police said Friday they are investigating claims that Al-Saud also preyed on other women on the estate.

Detectives “found more victims who were also alleging crimes against Mr. Al-Saud,” said LAPD Officer Drake Madison.

Al-Saud was detained by police for hours Wednesday afternoon as officers investigated a reported disturbance inside the 22,000-square-foot residence about 12:45 p.m., Madison said.

He was held on suspicion of false imprisonment, sexual assault and battery, then ultimately booked for alleged forced oral copulation of a worker inside the residence, Madison said.

Neighbors reported seeing a bleeding woman screaming for help as she tried to scale an 8-foot-high wall that surrounds the property, at the end of a cul de sac on Wallingford Drive. The home is within a gated community in the Beverly Glen area.

Neighbor Tennyson Collins said a resident reported seeing a bleeding woman scream for help as she tried to scale the property’s wall Wednesday afternoon.

When Collins drove home from work after 1:30 p.m., police followed his car through the gates and onto the property, which he described as a compound. The website Zillow valued the property at $37 million.

Officers escorted about 20 people out of the house, many of them staff, Collins said.

Police said Al-Saud was renting the home. Collins said various foreign nationals have been renting out the property for weeks at a time over the last year, but that the biggest incident up to Wednesday had been a raucous party or two. One person who rented out the home stationed armed guards at the gates, he said.

“Obviously neighbors aren’t happy about it, but it is what it is,” Collins said of the international visitors.

Al-Saud was freed on $300,000 bail Thursday afternoon, jail records show. He could not immediately be reached for comment.

The LAPD has a consul liaison division that checks with foreign nations’ consulates regarding diplomatic immunity, said Capt. Tina Nieto. Police determined Al-Saud does not have immunity in this case, she said.

Some foreign royalty do have diplomatic immunity, but it depends on the dignitary’s status in his home country’s government and the level of the offense he is accused of committing in the United States, she said.

Jail records show Al-Saud is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 19.

The State Department and Saudi Arabia’s Embassy have not responded to requests for comment.

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