Singer accused of defamation

JAKARTA: Singer of the popular song Kopi Dangdut Fahmi Shahab bin Abdullah Shahab was reported to police by his dancer ex-wife on Friday for alleged defamation and forgery of divorce documents.

Dewi Satriana Handayani, 30, told reporters at city police headquarters that in an interview with a private television station, Fahmi said he had divorced her because he had been deceived.

"Fahmi told the interviewer that he had been cheated as I was pregnant before we got married in 1997, and that I had spread iodine solution Betadine on our bed on our first night to give him the impression that I was still a virgin," Dewi, who is Fahmi's fourth wife, said.

Dewi, the mother of two children, said that in 1998 Fahmi told her to leave the house in the Ragunan area of South Jakarta after a prolonged quarrel between the two.

Dewi said she was still awaiting the decision from the East Jakarta Islamic Court to legalize her divorced status.-JP