Blue &Yellow: Politics and Economics in Ukraine

"He liked to listen to Arab music on an old cassette player," she recalls, and was "obsessive about his outfits," adding that during trips through poverty-stricken African countries, "he would fling money and candy out the window of his armored limousine to children who ran after our motorcade." 

Even so, Balinskaya is careful to remind readers that there are a lot of silly rumors flying around about Qaddafi, denouncing as "nonsense" suggestions that his fantastically beautiful Ukrainian medical staff also served as a harem. 

"The truth is that Papik was much more discreet than his friend, the womanizer Silvio Berlusconi," she says, explaining that he only hired pretty Ukrainian women because he simply "liked to be surrounded by beautiful things and people."

From Radio Free Europe, the tidbits provided about Qaddafi in the article are few. It simply reinforces the idea that he was a world-class megalomaniac.