Jemima warns Imran’s ex-wife over ‘explosive’ marital book

WHEN I disclosed two years ago that Pakistan cricket legend Imran Khan’s second wife, Reham, planned to write a memoir about their all-too-brief marriage, her friends predicted it would be ‘explosive’.

Now, Imran’s first wife, heiress Jemima Goldsmith, is trying to make sure none of the explosions hurt her or their children.

Yesterday, the daughter of late billionaire Sir James Goldsmith publicly warned Reham in the strongest terms that she would take her to court if the book comes out in this country.

‘I’ve been assured that it’s too libellous to be published in the UK,’ Jemima claimed on social media.

‘But, if it is published here, I will be suing for defamation and breach of privacy on behalf of my [then] 16-year-old son and in relation to the moronic, re-hashed Zionist conspiracy theories. Sigh.’

Imran, 65, is a politician in his native Pakistan and hopes to seize the premiership in elections next month.

Former BBC weather girl Reham, 45, who separated from the former World Cup-winning cricket captain in 2015 after a ten-month marriage, claims that she was hacked by his political supporters trying to steal a copy of her book. It is understood to include salacious allegations about their private life, including accusations of infidelity against Imran, who married his ‘spiritual adviser’ Bushra Manika earlier this year.

Jemima, 44, divorced Imran in 2004 after nine years of marriage. The couple’s sons, Sulaiman and Qasim, are now aged 21 and 18.

Reham was attacked in Pakistan as an ambitious, Westernised famehunter who shamed Imran with her revealing clothes and strong political opinions.

One of her friends told me in 2016 that she was determined to publish a book.

‘She doesn’t believe the world knows the real Imran,’ the pal said.

‘She has taken a lot of unfair abuse. Reham wants to write this book and stand up for all the women of the world who have been silenced.’