Prince Jefri Bolkiah, the 55-year-old younger brother of the Sultan, is seeking to persuade a judge in Manhattan that pictures of the four statues should not be shown to a jury that will consider his lawsuit against former legal advisers. 
 
 He has also said the jury should not be told that he had several wives and mistresses, because “polygamy is offensive to many Americans”. 
 
 The statues were once kept on the prince’s 28-acre estate on Long Island, New York. Mark Cymrot, a lawyer for one of the defendants in the lawsuit, said: “They make me blush. They’re very explicit”. 
 
 The prince’s lawsuit, separate from the long-running legal dispute with his brother, accuses the advisers of mishandling his wealth and cheating him out of $7 million (£4.3 million). 
 
 His lawyers said in court papers that Faith Zaman, who is being sued with her husband Thomas Derbyshire, obtained the photos of the statues “in order to embarrass” him. 
 
 They also argued that details of love life should be excluded. “Prince Jefri was entitled to have multiple wives and families, and he did so,” the court papers said. “Under Islamic law and practice this was legitimate and proper. 
 
 “However, polygamy is offensive to many Americans, and trial testimony about Prince Jefri’s personal life may be prejudicial to him.” The legal dispute between the sultan and the prince centres on the younger brother’s alleged embezzlement of $15 billion (£9 billion) after being put in charge of much of the oil-rich kingdom’s wealth. 
 
 It has been dragged through courts in London, Malaysia and the Cayman Islands over the past decade. 
 
 In 2007 the Privy Council – the final court of appeal for Brunei, a former British protectorate – ruled in support of a 2000 judgment ordering the prince to give his assets to his brother and live on a “monthly allowance” of $300,000 (£185,000). 
 
 The assets included billions of pounds, hundreds of international properties including New York’s Palace Hotel, thousands of cars, artworks by Picasso and Renoir and a 180-foot yacht called Tits. 
 
 Mr Cymrot said the defendants “stole nothing”. He added: “Jefri is trying to blame them for his own conduct in connection with his dispute with the sultan.” ||||| Gag order issued in sex statue trial of Prince Jefri Bolkiah 
 
 Two of the life-size sex statues belonging to Prince Jefri Bolkiah. 
 
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 After photos of Prince Jefri Bolkiah's collection of life-size sex statues appeared in the Daily News on Thursday, a Manhattan judge issued a gag order to everyone involved in the real estate trial. 
 
 "I'm directing everybody to stop talking to the press," said Justice Ira Gammerman. Lawyers for the 55-year-old prince, who has a harem and multiple wives, complained that Googling his name turned up countless mentions of the bronze statues depicting the prince in sexual positions, as well as anti-Muslim web postings. 
 
 The prince's lawyer, Jeff Stewart, complained about his opposing lawyer, Mark Cymrot, who is representing Faith Zaman, the British barrister the prince is suing. 
 
 "He passed out photographs [of the statues] in the hallway," complained Stewart, who also read aloud comments from readers on The News' website. 
 
 The prince's lawyers are trying to block mention of the statues - which were stored in the Long Island Sunninghill estate at the center of the royal's lawsuit against his former legal advisers - when the trial begins next week in Manhattan Supreme Court.
– Brunei's "playboy prince" doesn't want a New York court to hear about the life-size statues he had made of himself having sex with a member of his harem, or about the harem itself. Jefri Bolkiah—who used to keep the statues on his 28-acre Long Island estate—is trying to persuade a judge that the statues and his polygamous lifestyle shouldn't be mentioned in his lawsuit against financial advisers whom he accuses of mismanaging his money, the Telegraph reports. "Polygamy is offensive to many Americans, and trial testimony about Prince Jefri’s personal life may be prejudicial to him," his lawyers told the judge. The prince, the younger brother of the Sultan of Brunei, gave up much of his wealth to settle a lawsuit from the sultan accusing him of embezzling $15 billion. The judge in the New York case issued a gag order after the prince's lawyers complained that photos of the raunchy statues had been handed out to the press, the New York Daily News reports.