Pamella Bordes
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Pamela Singh (born 1961), known for some years as Pamella Bordes, is an Indian photographer and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss India 1982.[1]
Personal life
Singh was born in New Delhi in 1961; her father, Major Mahinder Singh, was an officer in the Indian Army. She attended the Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls' Public School in Jaipur then transferred to the Lady Sri Ram College in Delhi to study literature. She won the Miss India crown in 1982 and represented India in the Miss Universe pageant the same year. She subsequently moved to Europe, where she met and married Henri Bordes.
Singh studied at Parsons School of Design in New York, the American University of Paris, and the International Center of Photography in New York.[2][3] She took to photography as her career in 1997.[4]
Allegations
In the late 1980s Singh worked in a brothel which had provided one of British publicist Max Clifford's clients with various services. Clifford asked the madam to reveal details of her girls and clients, and found that one prostitute, Pamella Bordes, was simultaneously dating Andrew Neil (then editor of The Sunday Times), Donald Trelford (then editor of The Observer), Conservative minister for sport Colin Moynihan, and billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.[5][6][7] Clifford rang News of the World editor Patsy Chapman and drip-fed her the story of Bordes through the investigative reporter she was using on the madam. The story was published in March 1989 under the headline "Call Girl Works in Commons", since it was discovered she had a House of Commons security pass arranged by MPs David Shaw and Henry Bellingham.[8]
Clifford claimed Bordes was never his client, and that he earned his fee for "writing" the story, which ultimately served the purpose of saving the madam from any adverse publicity or court case.[9]
References
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- ↑ Khosla, Surabhi. "Shooting what she loves" Template:Webarchive, the-south-asian.com, May 2004 retrieved 7 October 2008
- ↑ Thayil, Jeet "Pamela Singh's new passion: art photography", rediff.com, 8 August 2001, retrieved 7 October 2008
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- ↑ Summerskill, Bill (28 July 2002). "Paper tiger" The Observer (London) retrieved 14 November 2006.
- ↑ Roy, Amit (9 October 2005). "A trip down memory lane" Template:Webarchive The Telegraph (Calcutta) retrieved 14 November 2006.
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External links
- Feature from the Hindustan Times
- Pamella Bordes' sexual escapades with high and mighty rock British establishment – article in India Today
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- Photographers from Delhi
- Femina Miss India winners
- Indian emigrants to England
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- Miss Universe 1982 contestants
- Parsons School of Design alumni
- Rajasthani people
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- Women artists from Delhi
- 20th-century Indian women photographers
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- Lady Shri Ram College alumni