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| A Saudi prince has been arrested on charges of trying to force a worker at a Beverly Hills estate to perform oral sex, Los Angeles police have said. | |
| Majed Abdulaziz Al Saud , 28, was arrested on Wednesday and was released on a $300,000 (£197,000) bond the next day. | |
| The Los Angeles police department said the prince did not have diplomatic immunity, according to the Los Angeles Times and KCBS-TV. | |
| The Times said police descended on the huge estate after a neighbour saw a bleeding woman screaming for help as she tried to scale the property’s surrounding wall on Wednesday. | The Times said police descended on the huge estate after a neighbour saw a bleeding woman screaming for help as she tried to scale the property’s surrounding wall on Wednesday. |
| The $37m property, in one of the most exclusive enclaves in the world, has been rented for weeks at a time by foreign nationals over the past year, the neighbour told the Times. | |
| The prince is expected to be in court on 19 October, court records show. | The prince is expected to be in court on 19 October, court records show. |
| Attempts to reach him by phone were unsuccessful and his lawyer was not immediately known. A call to the Saudi embassy was not immediately returned. | Attempts to reach him by phone were unsuccessful and his lawyer was not immediately known. A call to the Saudi embassy was not immediately returned. |