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Manohara Odelia Pinot’s estranged husband plans to come to Indonesia next week to file a defamation suit against the model and former soap opera star.

“She said she didn’t want to come to Malaysia because she’s afraid of her safety and whatever verdict the Malaysian Court delivers can’t be applied in Indonesia, so we are coming to Indonesia to pursue the case with Indonesian Police,” said Mohammad Haaziq, the lawyer for Kelantan Prince Tengku Temenggong Muhammad Fakhry.

Haaziq was speaking shortly after a Malaysian court on Thursday awarded the prince 6 million ringgit ($1.8 million) in a defamation suit against the teenager.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court awarded the sum to the prince, but he is not likely to receive any payment unless he initiates legal proceedings in Indonesia against his wife.

Manohara has so far refused to return or recognize court rulings made against her in Malaysia.

Indonesian law cannot compel Manohara to heed Malaysian court verdicts.

“We will go into the lion’s den to take on the lion,” Mohamad Haaziq told the Associated Press. “It is only a matter of time.”

Haaziq said the verdict was not surprising because Manohara had failed to assign anyone to represent her in the court proceedings.

“She did nothing, nothing at all to defend herself in court even though the court seriously gave her the opportunity to present her defense,” Haaziq said.

“She didn’t seem to bother about the trial at all.”

Despite the scandal and lawsuits, Haaziq said his client still loved Manohara.

“Yes, of course he still loves her. He even went to a Shariah court and asked her to return. He wouldn’t have done that if he didn’t love her,” he said .

Last May, Manohara left Tengku Fakhry in what she claimed was a dramatic escape from a hotel while accompanying her husband’s family on a trip to Singapore.

Manohara married the prince, from Malaysia’s northern Kelantan state, in 2008, shortly after she turned 16.

Manohara and her mother told Indonesian media that Fakhry, 32, held her captive and treated her as a sex slave. She also made graphic allegations of physical torture against Tengku Fakhry.

The prince subsequently filed a defamation suit against Pinot and her mother, both of whom refused to testify during the hearings.