‘Some Indians among Imran’s five illegitimate kids’
NEW DELHI: Journalist Reham Khan, who was briefly married to Imran Khan, has claimed in her autobiography that the cricketerturned-politician told her that he sired at least five illegitimate children, including “some” Indians.
Reham Khan, a British-Pakistani journalist, makes a number of claims in her self-titled autobiography about Imran Khan’s love life, including his alleged affair with a Bollywood superstar of the 1970s who was considered “one of the sexiest heroines of all time” and his efforts to completely dominate her while they were married.
Perhaps the most damning allegation of all in the book is Reham Khan’s claim about Imran Khan’s illegitimate children, which has already stirred up a storm on social media in Pakistan, where PDF versions and e-copies of the book are being widely shared and circulated although it is not officially available in that country.
Reham Khan, 45, writes that the issue of the 65-year-old Imran’s illegitimate children came up while discussing Tyrian, his daughter with the late socialite Sita White, in 2015.
In 1997, a Los Angeles court ruled that Khan was the father of Tyrian though he had refused to undergo a paternity test. Before her death in 2004, White made Khan’s first wife, Jemima Goldsmith, Tyrian’s guardian.
Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party haven’t reacted to the claims made in Reham Khan’s book. A PTI spokesman did not respond to phone calls and messages.
Reham Khan writes: “After a few weeks of our marriage, as we discussed Tyrian, Imran casually added, ‘You know she isn’t the only one I have.’ He grinned mischievously. ‘There are 5 in total, that I know of.’
‘Five what?!’ I gasped. ‘Kids,’ he laughed.
‘What? You have five illegitimate children! How do you know?’ I asked. ‘Well, the mothers told me,’ he said. ‘All White’s?’
‘No, some are Indians. The eldest is 34 now.’”
She also asked why the other women hadn’t spoken and, according to the book, Imran Khan replied: “Well, because they were all married and they didn’t want their marriages to be destroyed.” Imran also said he had told Jemima, to whom he was married from 1995 to 2004, about these children.
Ahead of their marriage in January 2015, Reham Khan writes, she heard several stories of Imran Khan’s past relationships, and to her surprise, he confirmed a lot of them, including relationships with Bollywood stars.
She writes: “Imran was keen to confirm all the stories I had thought were just rumours. The most famous story, of course, was that of a Bollywood superstar of the ’70s. Considered to be one of the sexiest heroines of all time, there had been rumours of Imran and her. We had heard these whilst we were growing up. Imran confirmed to me that they were true.”