Jemima Khan has made her first public appearance since being jailed on corruption charges last month.
The 50-year-old journalist and socialite was spotted looking modest in London this morning, wearing a black full-length down jacket and black Chanel sunglasses.
She was photographed riding a vintage-style bicycle down the sidewalk with a friend.
The Chelsea mother-of-two let her trademark fringe flow behind her face and paired the look with white lace-up trainers.
The socialite married former cricketer Khan in 1995 and they separated in June 2004. The couple have two sons, Sulaiman, 27, and Qasim, 25.
Last month, Khan, 71, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on corruption charges in January, just one day after being sentenced to 10 years in prison a week before national elections.
Both Mr. Khan and his third wife, Bushra Bibi, were found guilty of keeping and selling state gifts the former prime minister received while in office for personal gain.
Their sentences came just hours after Imran was sentenced to 10 years in prison in a case related to leaking state secrets.
Khan’s fall from grace stands in stark contrast to the glamorous life he once led as a world-famous cricketer and playboy.
The former cricketer once lived in a luxurious Knightsbridge apartment with a mirrored dining room and a mural of a tiger, and one visitor even described it as a “very promising bedroom”.
His success as a charismatic, attacking fast bowler was matched only by his reputation as a smolderingly handsome lothario.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, at his feet lay London society and its most beautiful women.
One of those women was Jemima, the daughter of businessman James Goldsmith, whom he married in 1995.
Khan could spend the rest of his life behind bars after receiving multiple sentences that his party says were deliberate attempts to discredit the party ahead of the February 7 elections. unknown.
It is not immediately clear whether Mr Khan’s sentence will run consecutively or in parallel with the trial held in prison, where he has been held for most of the time since his arrest in August. isn’t it.
However, his lawyer Salman Safdar confirmed that he had been sentenced along with his wife Bushra Bibi, who was on remand throughout the trial.
Intazar Hussein Panjuta, a member of Mr Khan’s legal team, said Mr Bibi had surrendered to authorities.
Bibi, a faith healer whom Khan met when he approached her for spiritual guidance, rarely appears in public and only wears a hijab to cover her face.
The two married in 2018, months before Mr Khan was elected prime minister.
Since his ouster in 2022, Mr. Khan has been mired in a court case that he claims was brought on to prevent him from returning to office following a movement against Pakistan’s military kingmakers.
The 71-year-old had accused the powerful military, with whom he ruled for most of his tenure, of plotting his ouster in a U.S.-backed conspiracy.
When Khan was first arrested in May last year, riots erupted across the United States.
But his street activities have been curtailed by a military crackdown, with thousands of supporters detained, 100 of whom are undergoing closed military trials, and dozens of senior leaders forced underground. Contained.
“We must avenge all the injustices with the February 8 vote,” Khan said in a statement posted on his X profile following his 10-year prison sentence.
“Say that we are not sheep to be driven away with a rod.”
As a result of the continued crackdown, the PTI moved most of its campaigning online, but was stalled by a state-imposed internet blackout.
The party, founded by former cricketer Khan, was also stripped of its cricket bat election symbol, although the country is lagging in literacy and the icon has become essential to identify candidates on ballot papers. ing.
Nawaz Sharif, leader of one of Pakistan’s two historically leading dynastic parties, returned from self-imposed exile to see his numerous convictions cleared in court.
Analysts said this was a sign that the three-time former prime minister was the favorite of the military, which has directly ruled Pakistan for just under half of its history.
Some 127 million Pakistanis are eligible to vote in national elections, and Mr. Khan and his PTI were at the center of the debate despite staying out of the spotlight.