Friday 8 October 2010

Cielo, Luxx Club

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I was invited by a friend to join him for a ‘freebie’ dinner at Cielo above Luca Maggiore’s Luxx members club. I'm not one to turn a free meal down so naturally said yes please. As with any of these club dinners I was expecting a random night. I got one. Our host was Patrick Ribbsaeter of Maximise Promotions who runs upstairs. Our table was filled up with friends, photographers, girls, ‘characters’. Patrick who is half Swedish, half Thai began to explain how he came to be in England. He had fallen in love with Sara, (supposedly) Osama Bin Laden’s daughter and moved over from Thailand with her. One evening after a champagne fuelled evening she passed out. Patrick described how her driver/bodyguard did not want him to be with her so attacked him with a beer bottle. He fought back. The papers said she ended the relationship and Patrick didn't take fondly to this launching at Sara. The driver stepped in, punching him in the face and Patrick retailiated my smashing a wine glass into the driver's face and stabbing him. It ended up with him being tried for assault. He went to prison for 6 months before he was finally cleared. Check out the story:
His outlook was surprisingly upbeat and positive. He’s re-established himself and settled into a country that had 'wrongly' imprisoned him and where he knew no one. And despite being a little ‘wired’, he was an extremely nice guy with a kind and friendly demeanour. He looked after his guests and just wanted everyone to have a good time. I can’t see him as the type to commit unprovoked assault, but then I’ve also been told that he's the type that can occasionally flip. Who knows?!

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