NABILA

Contributed by: The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia by Steven Jay Rubin

Enormous, three-hundred-foot oceangoing yacht originally owned by billionaire arms trader Adnan Khashoggi in 1982, which became Maximilian Largo’s yacht the Flying Saucer in Never Say Never Again. It was reportedly built by the Benetti yacht company for $100 million, and named after Khashoggi’s daughter.

Faced with financial struggles, Khashoggi eventually lost his ship to the sultan of Brunei as collateral for unpaid loans. Donald Trump purchased it from the sultan in 1987 for $29 million. He renamed it the Trump Princess. A few years later, Trump sold the yacht to Saudi prince al-Waleed bin Talal for $20 million.

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