Lady Colin Campbell appears in Murder in Monaco after publishing a book allegedly based on Lily Safra, Edmond Safra’s widow.
Murder in Monaco is on Netflix and the documentary exploring the bizarre circumstances surrounding the death of Edmond Safra, a Lebanese-Brazilian billionaire banker and philanthropist. In 1999 a Monte Carlo penthouse fire resulted in Safra being found dead and his nurse Ted Maher was convicted of arson causing death after confessing to starting the fire.
At the time, the suspicious circumstances surrounding Safra’s death gained international media attention. Lady Colin Campbell, better known as Lady C, unexpectedly features in the documentary and she was seen in the trailer abruptly shutting down a member of the crew who asked her if she wanted something to drink.
“No, thank you. I want this over with as quickly as possible. Start,” she was heard saying before she retorts: “Actually, I’m not doing this. This is at an end. Unf******-believable,” before storming off. Lady C, known for her stint on I’m A Celebrity, had published a book entitled Empress Bianca, a novel widely reported to be based on the life of Edmond Safra’s widow.
Lily Safra sued Campbell’s publisher Arcadia Books, forcing the book to be re-called and destroyed, with a revised edition published later. Born Georgia Arianna, Lady C is a British Jamaican author, socialite, and television personality known for publishing several unauthorised books about the British royal family, including Diana, Princess of Wales.
She was born into the Ziadie family, a prominent family of Lebanese descent, and grew up in the Colony of Jamaica as one of four children of wealthy department store owner Michael George Ziadie.
Lady C was raised as a boy
Lady C was raised as George William Ziadie as she was born with a genital malformation and her family had followed the medical advice of that time despite her being female.
She said if she had been born five years later, it might never have been an issue because of medical advances.
She told Herald Scotland: “There’s a very famous movie star who will remain nameless because I don’t believe in outing anyone. She was born with a similar condition but she was brought up as a girl. The thinking changed in the medical profession.”
Come puberty, she was bullied viciously at the boy’s school she was sent to and by the age of 13 she was keen for her parents to take action.
Instead, she was injected with male hormones, and it was not until her grandmother realised what was going on that things changed.
Her grandmother paid for corrective surgery in New York, which she had at the age of 21, and she legally changed her name from George William Ziadie to Georgia Arianna Ziadie.
Lady C owns Castle Goring in Worthing
In 2013, Lady C purchased Castle Goring, a Grade I listed country house in Worthing, Sussex.
The establishment is the ancestral family home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and novelist Mary Shelley.
She has since been restoring the once-dilapidated castle, admitting the costs of the restoration project would run into millions.
She told The Argus: “There have been times when I wished I could stop and there have been times when there has been too much for me to do.
“Things do go wrong and human beings, being what they are, well, some people do a wonderful job and others do not. It has been frenzied at times – there are never-ending demands, never-ending things to do, and lots of problems. But I have always enjoyed it.”
Lady C got married five days after meeting her partner
Lacy C married Lord Colin Ivar Campbell, the younger son of the eleventh Duke of Argyll, on March 23, 1974, having only known him for five days.
She enjoyed as strong personality and liked how he “exuded strength, decisiveness and charm”, but their relationship did not last long.
They separated after nine months over the revelations about her physical characteristics at birth. She has never remarried.
Lady C has two adopted children
In 1993, she adopted two Russian boys, Michael ‘Misha’ and Dimitri ‘Dima’. She told The Telegraph in 2013 she had “always been maternal”.
She explained: “Russia was a country where it’s possible to adopt infants – my English social worker told me not even to waste my time trying here.
“She said ‘You’ll be a very good mother, you’re warm, loving and ruthless’. Now, it’s quite the done thing to adopt as a single mother, Angelina Jolie did it, Sandra Bullock, but when I did it I couldn’t think of anyone apart from Joan Crawford.
“But I’m never afraid to break new ground.”
Source: Mirror
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