The Media Sets Out To Destroy Mezhgan Hussainy
SIMON Cowell has a new lover, the lovely Mezhgan Hussainy. And the Mail does what it does and uses the voice of English spite to snipe:
The man who Simon Cowell’s new love left behind
It’s Ahmed Shah Zahiri:
With his thinning hair and faded blue oversized polo shirt, he looks for all the world like a man who has succumbed to the comforts of middle-age and is not, perhaps, the catch he once was.
Yeah, perhaps.
He is Ahmed Shah Zahiri, who has made a decent enough living supplying Oriental rugs to the whitewashed stucco villas of Santa Barbara in California.
Still not sure if you want to shag him? The looks are fading, you say, but the money seems pretty good. And California is where he works? Anything more?
At first glance, the possibility of any link between the dishevelled Ahmed and the star-studded world of television celebrity might seem remote – but there is a fascinating connection. For this man’s ex-wife is the new girlfriend of millionaire X Factor mogul Simon Cowell.
Ok. We’ll take him. We’ve a business deal for Mr Cowell – Spite Idol, where hacks queue up to be the most spiteful and score a job at the Mail. What else do we know about her?
While the intervening years seem to have taken their toll on Ahmed, it is clear that Mezhgan has undergone an utterly astonishing transformation from traditional Muslim wife to astute businesswoman with access to some of Hollywood’s most powerful people.
Because you can’t be a traditional Muslim wife – whatever that means – and an astute businesswoman in the Mail. To reinforces this notion, the Mail hears from Ahmed’s nephew Niazi:
“Why would they marry? Maybe money. My uncle was pretty well off. He was driving the latest Mercedes and his rug business was doing well. Simon Cowell isn’t that good-looking either but then again he’s fabulously wealthy.”
At last the slight on Mezhgan’s character suggest that she’s consistent.
Mezhgan has known Cowell for six years through her work as a make-up artist on American Idol – the US version of Pop Idol that put Cowell on the path to stardom in the States – and to a different level of wealth.
Ah, yes, the money – again:
Last week Mezhgan, 37, was pictured snuggling up to Cowell, 50, following a romantic and no doubt exceedingly expensive Chinese supper.
Ah, yes, the money – again.
Last autumn they flew to Miami on a private jet for a five-day getaway in a £19,000-a-night penthouse.
Ah, yes, the money – again.
A friend said: ‘She is Simon’s first new girlfriend for years. Maybe Mezhgan is the woman who will finally tame him. If so, she has hit the jackpot.’
Ah, yes, the money – again.
Her story started many thousands of miles away in Afghanistan where, Mezhgan has said, she was born into a rich and educated family.
The money…
Her father, she says, owned one of Kabul’s first computer companies, employing 40 workers, while her mother was a respected teacher. They lived in a villa staffed by a cook, nanny, housekeeper and chauffeur.
Money…
The Soviets invaded. She left.
‘We got shot at once and that’s when the smugglers asked for more money. Smugglers could name their price because people were so desperate to escape. My mother had sewn money into her dress so we were able to pay.
Any guess to what the Mail’s point is yet?
They were some of the lucky ones, who had the money to pay smugglers, but they also had relatives in New York and California. After nine months in Pakistan, they were given permission to emigrate to the US, where Mezhgan found herself thoroughly at home.
The money. The home…
Today her mother and other family members live in a shabby, wooden-fronted, rented bungalow. Stained net curtains shield windows with rotting frames, and a pick-up truck belonging to one of Mezhgan’s brothers sits on the cracked tarmac drive outside.
And the Mail’s point is – anyone?
Curiously, Mezhgan has never made any mention of being a shopkeeper’s daughter, preferring to suggest that by the age of 11 she was giving manicures to women living in her family’s ‘Hollywood apartment building’.
Is the Mail squaring up Mezghan to be a Heather Mills?
A stocky, balding man with a curt demeanour, Ahmed is now remarried and refused to discuss Mezhgan.
But his wife Roman told The Mail on Sunday: ‘I asked him once, “What happened between you guys?” He said it was something that he said, and Mezhgan hadn’t listened. And he said, “I’m done.” I met her with Ahmed once. She’s very nice and she’s family.’
So she is nice. Escaped war. Her family worked hard. She was married. And…
In 2003, Mezhgan got her first big professional break when she was hired to do make-up for the second season of American Idol. A picture of her with a contestant who appeared to be fondling her breasts was posted on the internet under the headline ‘Who’s That Girl?’
That picture of Clay Aiken, gay runner-up in American Idol season 2.
So. She get son with gay men. Oh, and Alejandro Saavedra dated her:
Now, however, unshaven and drawn, Alejandro concedes that she has traded him in for Cowell, saying: ‘I never stood a chance. He’s a world-famous celebrity, worth a fortune. I just can’t compete.’
Is this what she did to him? Two unshaven men… The clues are falling into place.
His grandfather, Darko Bergamo, speaking from his home north of Los Angeles, said: ‘They were together for years, and talked about marrying and starting a family.
‘But her work kept taking her away. When they met she was just selling cosmetics in a shopping mall, but she’s very bright and came a long way.’
Or as the Mail puts it:
The young woman who just a few years ago was a spurned submissive wife is now ‘in the driver’s seat’, as an acquaintance put it.
Last night, Mezhagan declined to comment.
Why bother.
Posted: 14th, February 2010 | In: Celebrities Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
