In 1952, Farouk's former mistress, Barbara Skelton, published a novel entitled "A Young Girl's Touch" about a proper and prim young Englishwomen named Melinda who has an affair with a grotesquely obese Middle Eastern monarch named King Yoyo who enjoys spanking her. Skelton later admitted "A Young Girl's Touch" was a "roman à clef" with Melinda being herself and King Yoyo was King Farouk. Gore Vidal's 1953 pulp novel "Thieves Fall Out" is set against his overthrow. In 1954, the film "Abdulla the Great" was partially shot in Egypt in the Abdeen Palace and the Koubbeh Palace, and concerns the story of a fat and fabulously rich Middle Eastern king who lusts after a British model. The film was released in 1955. The film's producer, Gregory Ratoff, stated during the filming: "If you ask me officially if it is about Farouk, I must tell you no! No!" before going on to say the film was about a "playboy monarch, a gambler, a money-crazed king with an enthusiasm for life and women...if the world see Farouk in the character of the star, then we can do nothing about it". Farouk's Italian lawyer, Carlo d'Emilio, reportedly threatened on behalf of Farouk to sue for libel if the character of "Abdulla the Great" was too much like Farouk.