Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Age, Death, Girlfriend, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Full Name	Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi
Other Name	Al-Gaddafi
Profession(s)	• Engineer • Diplomat • Painter • Philanthropist • Soldier
Known For	Being son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (deceased)
Physical Stats
Eye Colour	Light Brown
Hair Colour	Bald
Personal Life
Date of Birth	25 June 1972 (Sunday)
Birthplace	Tripoli, Libya
Date of Death	3 February 2026 (Tuesday)
Place of Death	Zintan, Libya
Age (at the time of death)	53 Years
Death Cause	Assassination by gunshot
Zodiac sign	Cancer
Nationality	Libyan
Hometown	Tripoli, Libya
College/University	• University of Tripoli (UOT), Tripoli • Imadec Executive Education, Vienna • London School of Economics, London
Educational Qualification(s)	• A bachelor's degree in engineering science (1994) from University of Tripoli • A master of business administration (MBA) from Imadec Executive Education • A doctor of philosophy (2008) from London School of Economics
Religion	Islam
Relationships & More
Marital Status (at the time of death)	Unmarried
Affair/Girlfriend	Orly Weinerman (actress, model) (2005-2011)
Family
Parents	Father- Muammar Gaddafi (deceased) (politician) Mother- Safia Farkash (businesswoman)
Siblings	Brother(s)- 5 • Al-Saadi Gaddafi (former professional footballer, former commander of Libya’s Special Forces) • Mutassim Gaddafi (decaesed) (Lieutenant-colonel in the Libyan Army) • Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi (a private company employee) • Saif al-Arab Gaddafi (deceased) (commander of the Libyan Army) • Khamis Gaddafi (deceased) (commander of the Libyan Army) Sister- Ayesha Gaddafi (lawyer) Half-brother- Muhammad Gaddafi (chairman of the General Posts and Telecommunications Company)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Saif al-Islam Gaddafi

• Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was the second son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his second wife, Safia Farkash.
  

  A younger age picture of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (middle)

• After completing his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, he applied for student visas in various countries, including France and Canada. However, his applications were refused. As a result, Gaddafi pursued and earned an MBA from the IMADEC Business School in Vienna, Austria.

•  In 1998, he founded the Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity Associations, an organisation involved in charitable work and international negotiations. Through this organization, he took part in several humanitarian and diplomatic activities. His first major role in international diplomacy came in August 2000, when he acted as a mediator between the Abu Sayyaf group and the Government of the Philippines.

• In 1998, Saif al-Islam was involved in the HIV trial in Libya, where several Bulgarian nurses were accused in Libya of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV. During the early years of the case, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi publicly denied claims that the nurses had been tortured and insisted they were being treated fairly. However, in later interviews in the mid-2000s, he admitted that the nurses had in fact been tortured and had not received a fair trial, which seriously damaged his reputation in Libya.

• In 2002, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi played an important role in the weapons of mass destruction program. After relations with Western countries improved, he helped arrange several major business agreements for Libya. During this time, he also faced criticism from his father’s government.

• In 2005, the World Economic Forum (WEF) awarded him with a “Young Global Leader” title. Later, in January 2011, WEF’s founder Klaus Schwab personally invited Gaddafi to attend the annual WEF Forum in Davos.

• During the 2000s, Gaddafi was one of his father’s key diplomatic figures, representing Libya internationally and promoting reforms to improve relations with Western countries.

• In 2008, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi received a PhD degree from the London School of Economics. His thesis was about the role of civil society in global governance and democracy. Several well-known academics, including Meghnad Desai and Anthony McGrew, examined his work, and other professors from LSE and Harvard University advised him. Later, there were accusations that parts of his thesis were plagiarized and that it may have been partly written by consultants from the Monitor Group, a firm paid millions of dollars by his father’s government.

• Saif had helped to negotiate a compensation agreement between Libya and the United States over past terrorist attacks, including the Lockerbie bombing (1988). Due to his efforts, in August 2008, both countries signed an agreement, the US–Libya Comprehensive Claims Settlement Agreement.

• From 2000 to 2011, Gaddafi was regarded as his father’s likely successor and was seen as the second most powerful political figure in Libya, although he never had an official position in Libya.

• In the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Saif strongly backed his father’s regime and was widely associated with efforts to suppress the revolt, prompting allegations of torture and violence against protestors.

• On 27 June 2011, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for him on charges of crimes against humanity for his role in attacks against civilians during the Libyan civil war, although he denied the charges.

• After the fall of Tripoli, he attempted to flee Libya, but was captured by the Zintan Battalion on 19 November 2011.

• In 2015, a court in Tripoli sentenced him to death by firing squad in absentia for war crimes committed during his role in the civil war.

• Gaddafi was released from prison in Zintan on 10 June 2017 by the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Battalion. The battalion initially refused to hand him over to the International Criminal Court (ICC), even though the United Nations-backed Libyan government demanded his arrest. After his release, his exact location remained unknown.

• On 22 March 2018, one of Gaddafi’s spokesmen stated that he would run for president in the next Libyan general election under the Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya (PFLL).

• In 2020, Gaddafi attempted to reorganize the Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya into a new party named “Libya Al-Ghad”, but the rebranding was refused by the older Popular Front leaders.

• On 14 November 2021, he made his public appearance since 2014 and announced his intention to run for the presidency of Libya for the 2026 Presidential elections. He also registered his nomination in the southern city of Sebha.

• However, on 16 November 2021, Libya’s High National Election Commission rejected Gaddafi’s candidacy because, due to his criminal convictions, he was disqualified from holding a political office.

• On 3 February 2026, Gaddafi had been shot and killed at his private garden in Zintan by four gunmenfour masked gunmen raided Gaddafi’s home after disabling security cameras. Gaddafi attempted to fight back, unfortunately he was reportedly killed at 2:30 a.m. The four gunmen then fled the scene.

• It was reporteded that, since his release in November 2017, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi remained underground to avoid assassination.

• Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was an avid animal lover. He alos owned a pet white tiger, when he moved to Vienna, the Mayor of Vienna and the head of Schönbrunn Zoo permitted him to keep his pet at the zoo.
  

  Saif al-Islam Gaddafi with his pet

• He enjoyed painting alot. From 2002 to 2005, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s paintings were the main part of an international Libyan art exhibition called “The Desert is Not Silent.”
  

  Saif al-Islam Gaddafi with his paintings

• He also enjoyed shooting. In 2000, British royal family hosted Gaddafi at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. There he also went shooting on Princess Anne’s estate in Gloucestershire.