I really think this topic has been discussed enough but Dina feels that everyone should know the truth. She is also in the process of letting the arab community know and will have something aired on ART- the arab satellite channel that had commercials advertising her and Saad's performances.

My mom (Dee Dee) spoke to Dina today and she told her exactly why she didn't come. Dina never had a plane ticket to come, none of her band members had tickets, no one had a ticket. Yes, they all had visas, that was not the issue.
The problem was Alex broke the contract he and Dina had together. The deal was that he would pay half of the agreed upon amount upfront before she came and the other half when she arrived. She never got a penny.

The agreement was that she would fly straight from Monte Carlo- where she had a special party she was dancing at- to Las Vegas.

She told my mom "I never went to the airport or waited in any line, why would I go to the airport without even having a ticket?"


About the cost of the visas... Dina had 10 members of her orchestra coming with her and Saad had about 10 from his group... say 22 or 23 total. Each visa application costs 600 LE, Egyptian pounds, roughly $100 dollars.
$100 x 23 = $2,300....
At most, the total cost for the visas would have been $2,500.

Dina wants everyone to know that it was not a visa, a government, or an immigration issue, it was just that the terms of the contract were not meet and the sponsors broke their promises.

She does not plan to keep quiet about this because she feels it makes her look bad and hurts her image.