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Obituary for one time billionaire and Ol Pejeta owner Adnan Khashoggi

Saudi Arabian businessman Adnan Khashoggi in this undated photo filed on 7th June, 2017 . He partied with Hollywood elite.

A black rhino roaming the endless expanses of the 90,000-acre Ol Pejeta Conservancy back in the 1970s would probably have been startled by the loud sounds of noisy parties from the residential property there, from time to time.

The host of those parties, and master of Ol Pejeta, would happen to be none other than the Saudi arms dealer (on his way to being a dollar billionaire back then) called Adnan Khashoggi, who was at one point the most extravagant human on the planet, blowing about $250,000 (Sh25 million daily). That is over Sh1 million per hour.

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