According to a People article published in 1978, Pahlavi dated a “blond, blue-eyed Swedish model he met in Rome”. The same publication also reported that he lived with his girlfriend in Lubbock, Texas. As of 1980, he had an Egyptian girlfriend who was a student of The American University in Cairo, reportedly “closely guarded” by bodyguards.
Pahlavi began a relationship with Yasmine Etemad-Amini in 1985, and a year later married her, then aged 17, at 25. The couple have three daughters: Noor (born 3 April 1992), Iman (born 12 September 1993), and Farah (born 17 January 2004).
In 2004, Pahlavi was named the “unofficial godfather” of Princess Louise of Belgium, the eighth granddaughter of King Albert II of the Belgians.Pahlavi was a keen football player and spectator. He was a fan of the capital’s football club Esteghlal, then known as Taj (lit. ’Crown’), and his support was even televised by the National Iranian Radio and Television. The club performed in annual rallies organized on his birthday, identifying the club with the Pahlavi regime.
In 1981, UPI reported that Pahlavi attended the elite Gueziro Club in Cairo to watch tennis and was occasionally seen in discotheques at hotels in the vicinity of the Nile.