A member of a Saudi prince's traveling entourage has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping a 26-year-old woman in New York's Plaza Hotel

Mustapha Ouanes, an Algerian construction executive, argued the sex was consensual when he invited the woman and a friend to his hotel room in January of 2010 after a night of bar hopping, promising them a lavish breakfast. Both women testified of eating, drinking and smoking hashish with him before passing out, one of them on Ouanes' bed. When she woke up, he was raping her. The woman fought to free herself and eventually broke a glass which she intended to use as a weapon to defend herself. Her friend, who woke to find her leggings had been pulled down, called hotel security. A married man of 40 years, Ouanes spent half of his time assisting Prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd, the son of the late King Fahd, who had been residing in the Plaza for several months at the time.