[1] Maha was a cousin and third wife of Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, with whom she has five children:[1] Nouf, Nawwaf, Mishail, Hayfa and Fahd.
[9] In 2009, Princess Maha spent $20 million during an epic shopping spree in high-end Parisian boutiques, habitually walking out of the door after staff had been given an embossed card marked "Payment to Follow".
[12] Casualwear retailer Key Largo finally secured payment after obtaining a court order to seize goods from her Georges V hotel suite.
In the meantime pending resolution, she decamped to the Royal Monceau Hotel owned by her friend Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar.
[1] In early 2018, Maha and her daughter Nouf were sued by an Eritrean nanny over allegations of, among other things, human trafficking and involuntary servitude,[14] both in Saudi Arabia and in the US state of Virginia.