A Whitesell Brother’s Ex Is Pitching a TV Show
Rather than focusing on her past marriage to TV writer Chris Whitesell in the 1980s, Iranian-born Ladan Rafii, aged 64, is developing a series centered around her experiences as a political, legal, and civil affairs officer at the UN during the late 1970s and early 1980s, following the downfall of the Shah. She describes this period as a perilous journey that took her to various parts of the world, including Hong Kong (where she was involved in a taxi cab chase that ended with gunfire), near Washington D.C. (where one of her uncles was brutally murdered by Iranian agents), Teheran (where another relative met a tragic end), as well as Paris, Geneva, New York, and numerous other captivating destinations.