Prince Jefri Bolkiah, the 55-year-old younger brother of the Sultan, is seeking to persuade a judge in Manhattan that pictures of the four statues should not be shown to a jury that will consider his lawsuit against former legal advisers. The prince's lawyers are trying to block mention of the statues - which were stored in the Long Island Sunninghill estate at the center of the royal's lawsuit against his former legal advisers - when the trial begins next week in Manhattan Supreme Court. The prince's lawyer, Jeff Stewart, complained about his opposing lawyer, Mark Cymrot, who is representing Faith Zaman, the British barrister the prince is suing.
– Brunei's "playboy prince" doesn't want a New York court to hear about the life-size statues he had made of himself having sex with a member of his harem, or about the harem itself. Jefri Bolkiah—who used to keep the statues on his 28-acre Long Island estate—is trying to persuade a judge that the statues and his polygamous lifestyle shouldn't be mentioned in his lawsuit against financial advisers whom he accuses of mismanaging his money, the Telegraph reports. "Polygamy is offensive to many Americans, and trial testimony about Prince Jefri’s personal life may be prejudicial to him," his lawyers told the judge. The prince, the younger brother of the Sultan of Brunei, gave up much of his wealth to settle a lawsuit from the sultan accusing him of embezzling $15 billion. The judge in the New York case issued a gag order after the prince's lawyers complained that photos of the raunchy statues had been handed out to the press, the New York Daily News reports.