- Two women have accused Lebanon's former PM Saad Hariri of sexual assault, filing in a New York court.
- The women allege Hariri abused them aboard a plane owned by the Hariri family between 2006 and 2009.
Two flight attendants have filed a lawsuit against Lebanon's former prime minister, Saad Hariri, alleging he sexually assaulted them.
The lawsuit filed on behalf of Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 alleged that Hariri assaulted the two women on a Saudi Oger plane mutiple times between 2006 and 2009. The case was filed in federal court in New York on March 20.
Saudi Oger was a Saudi construction company owned by the Hariri family before it shut down in 2017.
According to court documents, Hariri is accused of "brutal workplace rape" of one of the women and multiple instances of "false imprisonment, sexual assault, and sexual harassment" of both of them.
The lawsuit also claims that friends and family of Hariri, as well as the women's former boss at Saudi Oger, aided and abetted Hariri's actions. The two women are seeking an unspecified amount of damages.
The case was filed under New York's Adult Survivors Act, which gives adults who experienced sexual assault until November 2024 to file cases that may have otherwise passed the statute of limitations.
Hariri served as Lebanon's prime minister from 2009 to 2011, and then again from 2016 to 2020. He is the son of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, who was assassinated in 2005. As of 2018, Hariri had a net worth of $1.5 billion, Forbes reported.
Hariri did not respond to Insider's request for comment at the time of publication but in a statement provided to CNN, Hariri's office denied the allegations, adding that the lawsuit is, "full of completely false and unacceptable accusations, aimed at provocation and slander against Prime Minister Hariri." A spokesperson for Hariri told UPI that the lawsuit was a "smear campaign."
An attorney for the two women did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment on Sunday.