Apprentice winner Yasmina Siadatan has a dad with three wives

Jun 8 2009 by Anuji Varma, Sunday Mercury

In March we published a story revealing the extraordinary life of Apprentice winner Yasmina Siadatan's father Medi.

THE father of Apprentice star Yasmina Siadatan lives with a harem of THREE wives he married under Muslim law.

Midland restaurant boss Medi Siadatan, 57, exclusively revealed his extraordinary life with partners Cinzia, 47, Stefania, 41, and Sarah, 35, to the Sunday Mercury some years ago.

The Iranian businessman had earlier divorced Yasmina’s mum Paula, after confessing that he was unable to be a one-woman man.

The father-of-12 later launched a legal battle to challenge Britain’s laws against polygamy, campaigning for the UK to recognise Islamic partnerships.

Pretty Yasmina, 27, who runs her own London restaurant with her brother Matthew, grew up accepting her bizarre family life.

She failed to make an impact on the first Apprentice show on Wednesday in which contestants battled it out to win a job with multi-millionaire Sir Alan Sugar.

Last night, a close family friend said: “It was a bit of a shock when the family found out that Yasmina was going on The Apprentice. But her dad is proud and thinks she can do well.

“She’s had a fair bit of training for something like this after being brought up in the family business. Her dad taught her a lot and she’s a very intelligent girl.