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"Where there is money there are always whores and drugs," says a great nightlife businessman. It only needs to underpin the fact that they can sometimes be joined by arms dealers and future terrorists. When in 1979

Régine Zylberberg

(92) or, simply, Régine, opened his namesake nightclub at the five-star Puente Romano hotel in Marbella,

the night did confuse them

.

On the occasion of the fateful 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack orchestrated by Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda, the memory searches the hard drive of his past until it reaches the Costa del Sol, where a young Osama and some of his brothers

licked themselves with the luxuries of the Marbella Club and Incosol hotels and levitated in Regine's

, the place without taboos where the then queen of the night combined wit, fantasy and dreams. Whether or not the businesswoman was aware of her jihadist side and of her interest in imposing sharia law in Islamic countries is unknown.

The

seventeenth son of Sheikh Mohammed bin Awad bi Laden

, founder of the Saudi Binladin Group construction conglomerate and a close friend of Ibn Saud (founder of the modern Saudi state and first monarch of the Saud house who still rules with an iron hand) loved to enjoy of the Marbella night with some of his brothers.

After the death of his father, considered the richest Saudi non-royal,

Osama Bin Laden inherited a vast fortune

to enjoy human pleasures and create the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda in 1988.

The then leader of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden.EFE

A bull past, some remember that he liked partying, loud music and

the most expensive and beloved prostitutes

. Still others lick it because there is probably some missing black and white photo valued on a check with lots of zeros. At that time, the paparazzi were counted on the fingers of one hand and, on top,

the Bin Ladens were

light years away from the glitz their Saudi countrymen would display years later

. Like King Fahd, with his impressive replica mansion of the White House with a mosque included or the arms dealer Adnan Kashoggui, with his lavish yacht with gold letters (Nabila) and his parties in Al-Baraka (currently La Zagaleta urbanization ) were more than legendary. In some of them they were part of the Bin Ladens, but not Osama.

In 1979, exactly the year in which he intervened in the Russo-Afghan war with the consequent rise of the Taliban,

King Fahd arrived in Marbella for the first time

. This is how the only Spanish journalist who received the monarch in Incosol, José Luis Yagüe, remembers her: "Prince Alfonso de Hohenlohe told me that Rainier of Monaco had called because the night before an Arab had made the bank jump in the casino and that he was preparing to travel to Marbella. He asked me to find out which hotel he was staying at. " He received him in Incosol. For the Saudi king it was love at first sight: "

Marbella reminds me of the Holy Land

."

The United States killed Osama ten years ago and

Régine resides on the Côte d'Azur almost ruined by bad investments of the past

.

Gone is his first place, New Jimmy'z, in the bohemian Parisian neighborhood where the Années Folles brought together Picasso, Cocteau or Henry Miller and on those nights of strobe lights Onassis or Grace Kelly danced.

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