The widow of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday denied Arab press reports that she had married a brother-in-law of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
"I absolutely deny reports about my marriage with Mr Belhassen Trabelsi and will take legal action against the media who published this wrong piece of information," Suha Arafat, who has French citizenship, told AFP.
Trabelsi is a brother of Leila Trabelsi, the wife of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Suha Arafat, who was born in 1963, said she was living in Tunis with her daughter and had no marriage plans.
"Yasser Arafat is the love of my life and will be until I die," she said. Suha, who grew up in a well-off Christian Palestinian family, married Arafat in 1990 after being his economic advisor following his organisation's move from Lebanon into exile in Tunisia. He died in Paris at the age of 75 in 2004. She said that at the request of her late husband she had never sued any media for publishing "lies about my family" and details of her private life, but was now prepared to do so.