The following year President Sedat of Egypt offered both royal women a dignified safe passage to return home but in December that year Ghali murdered his estranged wife by multiple gun shots to the head. His suicide attempt failed and he was jailed in the US. Nazli was forced into bankruptcy and died in May 1978. A necklace from Nazli’s collection resurfaced at auction in 2015, but the tiara’s whereabouts remain unknown.
