[2] He is one of five children of former Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz and Maha bint Mohammed Al Sudairi.
[4] As of 2014 Nawwaf bin Nayef served as an administrative attaché at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in the United States.
[8] In the same incident their uncle and King Salman's full-brother Ahmed bin Abdulaziz was also arrested.
[9][10] David D. Kirkpatrick and Ben Hubbard of The New York Times argue that this move was to eliminate the potential threats to the newly installed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
[7] In August 2020 some Twitter accounts and his lawyers reported that Prince Nawwaf had been released, but they also added that it was not clear where he was.