U.S. singer-songwriter Brittany Porter, popular as Brook Lynn, states that she unknowingly tied the knot to Malaysia’s former king, Sultan Muhammad V, in what she believed was an engagement event. The 30-year-old artist cites that she then discovered the April 2024 celebration in Oman was actually a “nikah” — a binding Islamic marriage. Upon returning to Malaysia, Porter mentioned that she faced pressure to conceive before suffering a miscarriage and eventually being cut off by the Sultan.