Post by Erika on Nov 30, 2004 14:43:28 GMT -5
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Just in case, MPG played Jason JOhnson in the made for TV movie. I LOVE this movie. I am sad to hear the couple has divorced.
'Princess and Marine' Pair Call It Quits
Tue Nov 30,12:13 PM ET Television - AP
LAS VEGAS - The marriage is over between a former U.S. soldier and a teenage Bahraini royal that provided the basis for a made-for-television movie, "The Princess and the Marine."
"It was what she wanted," Jason Johnson told the Las Vegas Review-Journal of the divorce he and Meriam Al-Khalifa filed Nov. 17, the day after their fifth wedding anniversary. It calls them "incompatible in marriage."
Johnson cast the tale as a "Romeo and Juliet" love affair that disintegrated amid Las Vegas nightlife, opposition by his wife's family, and at least one death threat.
Al-Khalifa was not represented by a lawyer in the divorce filing. No one answered her apartment door Monday.
The story of a princess who defies her family and a Marine who risks it all for love started in January 1999.
Johnson was a Marine stationed in Bahrain, an island kingdom in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Saudi Arabia.
Al-Khalifa is one of five daughters of Sheik Abdullah bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa, a distant relative of Bahrain's king, Sheik Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa.
They met at a mall. He thought she was pretty. She thought he was funny. He was a Mormon. She was a Muslim — forbidden to marry a non-Muslim. They fell in love.
Her family ordered an end to the romance. They continued to secretly exchange letters through a store employee at the mall.
Johnson spirited Al-Khalifa to the United States when his tour of duty ended in November 1999, using forged documents and a disguise including a New York Yankees baseball cap.
Johnson was court-martialed, demoted and was discharged from the Marines. Al-Khalifa sought political asylum in the U.S.
The couple married in Las Vegas on Nov. 16, 1999. He was 23. She was 19.
The story made headlines. Besides the TV movie, the couple made the rounds of television talk shows. They rented an apartment in Las Vegas and lived off money from the movie. Johnson got a job as a parking valet on the Las Vegas Strip.
He described constant tension with Al-Khalifa's family, and said the FBI (news - web sites) once told him they'd intercepted a man who said he'd been paid $500,000 to assassinate her.
Johnson said Al-Khalifa plunged into Las Vegas nightlife, partying with her friends and ignoring him.
About a year ago, Johnson said, Al-Khalifa left him. He lives now in northwest Las Vegas with his stepmother.
"Deep down inside, she knows that I loved her more than anything in the world," Johnson said. "I can say I enjoyed every minute I spent with her."
Just in case, MPG played Jason JOhnson in the made for TV movie. I LOVE this movie. I am sad to hear the couple has divorced.
'Princess and Marine' Pair Call It Quits
Tue Nov 30,12:13 PM ET Television - AP
LAS VEGAS - The marriage is over between a former U.S. soldier and a teenage Bahraini royal that provided the basis for a made-for-television movie, "The Princess and the Marine."
"It was what she wanted," Jason Johnson told the Las Vegas Review-Journal of the divorce he and Meriam Al-Khalifa filed Nov. 17, the day after their fifth wedding anniversary. It calls them "incompatible in marriage."
Johnson cast the tale as a "Romeo and Juliet" love affair that disintegrated amid Las Vegas nightlife, opposition by his wife's family, and at least one death threat.
Al-Khalifa was not represented by a lawyer in the divorce filing. No one answered her apartment door Monday.
The story of a princess who defies her family and a Marine who risks it all for love started in January 1999.
Johnson was a Marine stationed in Bahrain, an island kingdom in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Saudi Arabia.
Al-Khalifa is one of five daughters of Sheik Abdullah bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa, a distant relative of Bahrain's king, Sheik Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa.
They met at a mall. He thought she was pretty. She thought he was funny. He was a Mormon. She was a Muslim — forbidden to marry a non-Muslim. They fell in love.
Her family ordered an end to the romance. They continued to secretly exchange letters through a store employee at the mall.
Johnson spirited Al-Khalifa to the United States when his tour of duty ended in November 1999, using forged documents and a disguise including a New York Yankees baseball cap.
Johnson was court-martialed, demoted and was discharged from the Marines. Al-Khalifa sought political asylum in the U.S.
The couple married in Las Vegas on Nov. 16, 1999. He was 23. She was 19.
The story made headlines. Besides the TV movie, the couple made the rounds of television talk shows. They rented an apartment in Las Vegas and lived off money from the movie. Johnson got a job as a parking valet on the Las Vegas Strip.
He described constant tension with Al-Khalifa's family, and said the FBI (news - web sites) once told him they'd intercepted a man who said he'd been paid $500,000 to assassinate her.
Johnson said Al-Khalifa plunged into Las Vegas nightlife, partying with her friends and ignoring him.
About a year ago, Johnson said, Al-Khalifa left him. He lives now in northwest Las Vegas with his stepmother.
"Deep down inside, she knows that I loved her more than anything in the world," Johnson said. "I can say I enjoyed every minute I spent with her."
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