Background
Al Khalifa is one of five daughters of Abdullah bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, a distant relative of Bahrain's present king, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.
She became known in the US media in 1999 after she met Jason Johnson, a United States Marine and a Mormon, in a shopping mall in Bahrain and fell in love with him. She escaped to the United States in November 1999 using forged documents and abandoned her life as a Bahraini royal, opting to marry Johnson and live as a housewife in Nevada.
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