Beyonce, Usher, Mariah party with Gaddafi’s Son

In U.S. State Department cables, posted on the website Wikileaks, U.S. officials say Libyan dictator Gaddafi’s son Mutassim threw two major New Years bashes at St. Bart’s Island in the Caribbean, one in 2009 and the next the following year, with price tags reportedly over a $1 million each. As Gaddafi struggles to maintain control […]

In U.S. State Department cables, posted on the website Wikileaks, U.S. officials say Libyan dictator Gaddafi’s son Mutassim threw two major New Years bashes at St. Bart’s Island in the Caribbean, one in 2009 and the next the following year, with price tags reportedly over a $1 million each.

As Gaddafi struggles to maintain control over the North African nation — and amid reports that his own daughter was attempting to flee the country — the leaked documents offer a glimpse into not only the lavish, “hard-partying, womanizing” ways of some of the Gaddafi sons, but also the intense in-fighting and rivalry between the Libyan leader’s offspring.

“The family has been in a tailspin lately, trying to put a stop to one rumor or another, in the name of defending the family’s honor,” a leaked 2010 cable from the U.S. embassy in Tripoli said, citing a “local political observer.”