This year among the gaggle of seriously wealthy international visitors to wash up on the shores of Hamilton Island was retired French billionaire Jack Setton and his glamorous brunette wife, Asmaa Khimlichi, a 40-year-old Moroccan actor.
The couple were the talk of the island after arriving on their giant catamaran Swift, which had sailed to the Whitsundays after a tour of the South Pacific. Setton was famous in France for his collection of more than 20 Ferraris, housed at his expansive estate, complete with castle, on the outskirts of Paris. However, he gave all that up, along with his former wife, when he met Khimlichi, and decided to sail around the world on his luxury yacht.
Khimlichi is well known across the Middle East, having starred in a string of popular Moroccan films. She blushed when PS asked if she was the Nicole Kidman of the Middle East.