In 1979, the yard launches "Nabila" for Adnan Khashoggi, which at 83 metres and 2,465 tonnes was the largest yacht of its time.
Born in Canton, Ohio, Shaheen was Chief of Staff and Executive Assistant for the Saudi Arabian entrepreneur Adnan Khashoggi for 25 years.
The Times said in 1988 it had discovered that Hashemi was meeting with Adnan Khashoggi and Manucher Ghorbanifar, and that Hashemi's efforts to arrange a deal collapsed in August 1985 due to Kashoggi's competing efforts to arrange US access to Ghorbanifar via Robert McFarlane.
From the 1970s onwards he designed large yachts for clients such as Larry Ellison, Malcolm Forbes, Bennett S. LeBow, Adnan Khashoggi and Robert Maxwell
Adnan Khashoggi had a swimming pool installed in his after the building was constructed; and other notables also lived there.
Adnan Khashoggi | Adnan Menderes | Azman Adnan | Adnan Siddiqui | Adnan bin Saidi | Adnan | Adnan Oktar | Adnan al-Dulaimi | Adnan Abu Hassan | Jamal Khashoggi | Etel Adnan | Ahmed Adnan Saygun | Adnan Yıldırım | Adnan Menderes Airport | Adnan Mansour | Adnan Khairallah | Adnan Hassanpour | Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah | Adnan Awad |
Prior to his career as an author, Kolb, by his own account, worked as a close advisor to Muhammad Ali and Adnan Khashoggi and as a spy with CIA co-founder Miles Copeland, Jr., with whom he was involved in intrigues in Pakistan, Iran, the Philippines, Nicaragua, and elsewhere, until Kolb was forced to retire to a safehouse in Florida to avoid extradition to India.
Nabila, Adnan Khashoggi's yacht named after his daughter and later renamed 'Kingdom 5KR'