Speaking to Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda on Tuesday, nurse Oksana Balinskaya denied a rumour circulated in a WikiLeaks dispatch that Gaddafi had a “voluptuous blonde” nurse, Galyna Kolotnytska, as a mistress.
Miss Kolotnytska “had exactly the same duties as the other nurses – there are five of us – but was more experienced,” since she had worked for Col Gaddafi for eight years and spoke Arabic, her colleague said.
She added that reports of a relationship were untrue.
“What they are writing about Galyna Kolotnytska is made-up stories,” claimed Miss Balinskaya.
She posed wearing a watch decorated with a portrait of Gaddafi and said that the Libyan leader gave his staff Italian gold watches every year on the anniversary of his taking power.