By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:26 AM on 25th October 2008
He is used to having glamorous women on his arm, but this picture of controversial financier Nathaniel Rothschild will raise some eyebrows.
His companion is Gulnara Karimova, billionaire daughter of one of the world’s most brutal and bloodthirsty dictators, President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan.
Like his friend, Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, she has had problems with the American authorities.
Deripaska is refused a U.S. visa for reasons the FBI has not fully explained.
Gulnara, a 36-year-old Harvard graduate, was made the subject of an arrest warrant after she defied a court and took her two children by a U.S. man of Uzbek origin back to her homeland.
The picture was taken in March 2007 at an Uzbek fashion show in Paris, intended to improve the country’s reputation after a massacre two years earlier ordered by Karimov in which hundreds or even thousands perished.
Gulnara is a martial-arts black belt, fashion designer, poet and performer of a number one hit single in her homeland.
Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, said: ‘This woman is not just the daughter of one of the most violent tyrants on Earth, she is also directly implicated in atrocities and the major beneficiary of the looting of the Uzbek state.
‘I am stunned that Rothschild would want to pose with her.’
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk, 25th October 2008