She no doubt talks about her work with her stepmother, who founded Instinct Productions and is executive producer of a new six-part documentary, The Impeachment Of Bill Clinton.Įarlier this month, Jemima and Tyrian went out with Sulaiman, 21, and Kasim, 19, and her brother Ben and his wife to a Bollywood themed party at Loulou’s in Mayfair. And last year, she was working on Set It Up, a romantic comedy with Lucy Liu. What happened to cause the rupture is not clear.Īt 18, Tyrian moved to New York to study communications and media studies. Tyrian lived with Carolina on her ranch in Paso Robles, a pretty coastal town in California, but today, Tyrian and her aunt have no contact. So she would live with her aunt, Carolina, Sita’s sister, and spend holidays with Jemima.
It was agreed that she should stay in California, where she had grown up. Tragically, Sita collapsed and died of an embolism in May 2004 as she was getting ready for a yoga class in Santa Monica. Sita rewrote her will, appointing Jemima as sole guardian and had Tyrian’s name changed to Tyrian Khan-White. As well as being a stable mother figure in her life, Tyrian would also continue to have, through Jemima, a connection with her father. When, in early 2004, Sita learned she had cancer and was forced to think about who would take care of Tyrian, she thought of Jemima. But Sita was troubled and had became embroiled in a battle over the fortune of her late father, the British industrialist Gordon White. When she is in the UK she lives with Jemima at her home in OxfordshireĪt home in California, Tyrian was close to her mother. Sita found Jemima kind and generous and Tyrian regularly spent holidays with Jemima.ĭespite Imran refusing to acknowledge that Tyrian was his until a judge ruled he was in 1997, she is still a part of his life through his link to his ex-wife. There was a perception that there was hostility on the part of Sita towards Jemima, but the pair gradually formed a cordial relationship.
Days later, however, father and daughter finally met one another. Imran, clearly uncomfortable, was forced to talk to her. As he was waiting, Sita slipped into the hotel and moved to his side. Sita, it seemed, already stung by Imran’s apparent rejection of Tyrian, was further incensed by his marriage to Jemima.Īfter a judge ruled that Imran was Tyrian’s father in 1997, he met her in Los Angeles in 1998 amid high drama.Ī few days before, Imran had agreed to make a speech to the Pakistani community at a Los Angeles hotel. At the outset, her birth was a secret but her existence was revealed, with devastating timing, in May 1995, five days after Imran and Jemima were married in Paris. Imran refused, publicly at least, to acknowledge that the child was his. Tyrian was conceived at the end of a four-year on-off relationship and born in June 1992. Sita was the latest in a long line of women to fall at his feet. He apparently liked to refer to himself during this period as a tiger - and Tramp was his hunting ground. Back then, the former cricketer was one of London’s most successful playboys. Sita White met Imran Khan at Tramp nightclub in the late Eighties. In August, Jemima posted a picture of Sulaiman, Kasim and Tyrian, alongside the caption: ‘Vicariously holidaying with my gang.’ The two could easily have passed for sisters, as Jemima is a youthful looking 44. Both dressed in black (see above), Tyrian smiled shyly as she posed alongside her stepmother. Later in the year, it was Tyrian whom Jemima took to the premiere of the film, Victoria & Abdul. And tho’ I can’t take any credit, she’s one of the wisest, bravest, most authentic & impressive people I know.’ Jemima’s caption continued: ‘The best company - as illustrated in this photo - I’m pretty much always happy when she’s around. Publicly, Jemima refers to Tyrian as her ‘stepdaughter’, but that is simply out of respect for Sita.
For it is Jemima, the Mail reveals today, who has replaced Sita as the mother figure in her life.Įven though Jemima divorced Imran in 2004, she has been a constant in Tyrian’s life following Sita’s early death and regards her as her daughter. What happened next may seem surprising, given her unsettled start in life. In 2004, seven years after a judge declared Imran to be Tyrian’s father, Sita suddenly died, aged just 43.Īfter a flurry of stories speculating about Tyrian’s future, the little girl with the soulful brown eyes faded away from public view. Her early years were tumultuous, marked by Sita’s determination to have Imran recognise Tyrian as his biological daughter. Jemima, Tyrian, and Jemima's two sons Sulaiman and Kasim are an unbreakable unit Although Imram and Jemima, pictured on their wedding day, split in 2004, she has been a constant in her life since the death of her mother Sita.