[4] It was reported that after King Fahd's death, he began to live in Switzerland and came to Saudi Arabia to participate in the meetings of the Council of Ministers.
Hariri said 'The meat on my shoulder is from King Fahd,’ according to As'ad Abu Khalil, a professor of political science at California State University Stanislaus, who has written several books and runs the blog The Angry Arab News Service.
[9] It emerged in a New York Supreme Court affidavit that he was the secret owner of a $1 billion property portfolio in the US[10] which owns the American headquarters of the oil giant BP and the defence contractor BAE Systems.
[15] According to a report in The Daily Telegraph in October 2010, Interventure Capital Group is also behind another major portfolio of properties which had been controlled by a UK-based company, StratREAL.
[16] Assets purchased by StratREAL on behalf of Prince Abdulaziz bin Fahd included Fifth Street Towers, a Minneapolis office complex, for $294 million in 2007.
[9] He had a number of palaces in Saudi Arabia and around various other parts of the world which have cost over $2 billion[21] which include: In addition, he reportedly owned "the Pyramid House" on Hillcrest Road in Beverly Hills, California.
There were rumours that Abdulaziz, age 46, was killed by a death squad while resisting arrest, but the Saudi information ministry released a statement saying that the prince was "alive and well.