Dutch glamour model escapes Libya posing as journalist

A Dutch glamour model who had a relationship with one of the sons of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi escaped from Libya by posing as a journalist, De Pers reports on Tuesday.


Talitha van Zon was helped to get out of the country by war reporter Arnold Kaskens, who gave her a visiting card naming his employer, free newspaper De Pers, Kaskens says on the paper’s weblog.
Together with a friendly rebel, Kaskens managed to get Van Zon past immigration officials and on to a Maltese freighter, he says. The boat arrived in Malta on Monday afternoon.
Van Zon hit the headlines at the weekend when she told Britain’s Telegraph newspaper she had jumped from her hotel room because she feared being attacked by rebels.
The Telegraaf says it is not clear when Van Zon will return to the Netherlands. Here she may face people smuggling charges after a former friend claims the model, who once posed for Playboy, was paid to get her to visit Libya where she was sexually abused, the paper says.

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