In 2000 she made a suicide attempt, saying she had 'had enough of begging for money'.įloods and a landslide had made her home barely habitable. Sita promised 'to do whatever it takes to prove him guilty' and later that year a California judge declared that Khan was the father after he failed to contest the paternity suit Sita filed.Īlthough Lucas's spokesman says that over the years he had assisted Sita financially, she insisted that the $13,000 (£7,000) monthly allowance she received from a family trust was insufficient to maintain the Beverley Hills house Gordy had bought her. Campaigning for his own political party in Pakistan, Khan was attacked by opponents for violating the tenets of Islam. When the news of Khan's paternity (which he has never publicly admitted) came out, he was by then married to Jemima Goldsmith, whose father Sir James was a friend of Gordy's.

He did invite her to live with him in his Bel Air home during her pregnancy, but, according to Sita, when Tyrian was born his only words were 'that is not a white child' and he never made any effort to see her again. Neither was White exactly supportive of his daughter. So did Khan, informing his biographer, Ivo Tennant, that he knew Lord White but making no mention of Sita. Until the result of this assignation, Tyrian, was three, Sita kept the identity of her daughter's father secret. Sita later claimed she had asked Khan to father her child and that he had agreed. The Pakistani cricketer ended the affair after a few months, but after Sita moved permanently to Los Angeles in 1990 they spent one final night together.

But before long she had begun a relationship with Imran Khan, whom she met in the Jermyn Street nightclub, Tramp.

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