Jeanne Abdullah

Jeanne Abdullah is the new wife of the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

According to Wikipedia, Jeanne was born into a Roman Catholic Portuguese-Eurasian family, but she later converted to Islam. She is an alumnus of SMK Assunta in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, and has worked in the hotel management field. At one point, she was supervisor of the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister's official residence while Abdullah Badawi was Deputy PM, and became the manager of Seri Perdana, the Prime Minister's residence, when Abdullah assumed the premiership.

Jeanne has two daughters, Nadiah and Nadene, from a previous marriage. She is to marry Abdullah Badawi on 9 June 2007.

At a press conference after the engagement was announced, Abdullah stated he had known her for about two decades, as she had been his sister-in-law.

Jeanne had been married to Othman Mahmood, who was the younger brother of Abdullah's first wife, Endon Mahmood. Abdullah also denied that Endon had asked him to marry Jeanne, but said Endon had loved her as "Otherwise she would not have asked her to manage our official residence".

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Many expected an alliance between the Abdullah and Pilot families to be celebrated in a grand manner. While Dr Farooq Abdullah is the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, the late Rajesh Pilot was a senior and much respected leader of the Congress.

But their children - Sara Abdullah and Sachin Pilot - tied the knot on Thursday afternoon at a quiet ceremony in Delhi, which was boycotted by the former's family.

Dr Farooq Abdullah is reportedly in London while his son Omar Abdullah is undergoing treatment at Batra Hospital in Delhi for suspected appendicitis.

The much-awaited wedding took place in the presence of only close relatives and friends of the bridegroom at 20, Canning Lane, the official residence of Rama Pilot who represents Dausa constituency, in Rajasthan, in Parliament.

It is not clear if it involved Hindu or Muslim rituals or was just a registered marriage. The venue had been declared out of bounds for mediapersons who had turned up to cover the event.
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For the Abdullahs, who are passing through a difficult phase after their National Conference lost in the state assembly elections, the wedding could not have come at a worse time.

It is likely to kick up a furore in Jammu and Kashmir with terrorist groups expected to whip up public sentiment against the Abdullah family on the issue of a Muslim girl marrying a Hindu boy.

Srinagar is ripe with speculation that Dr Abdullah has disowned his sarah abdullah daughter. Incidentally, Omar Abdullah is married to a Sikh.

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