61th birthday of Reza Pahlavi in the U.S.
Pahlavi is the founder and leader of the self-styled National Council of , an exiled opposition group, and is a prominent critic of Republic government. According to a People article published in 1978, Pahlavi dated a “blond, blue-eyed Swedish model he met in Rome”. The same publication also reported that he lived with his girlfriend while living in Lubbock, Texas. As of 1980, he had an Egyptian girlfriend who was a student of The American University in Cairo, reportedly “closely guarded” by bodyguards.