Another young beauty on his arm... so just what is Salman Rushdie's secret?

Salman Rushdie's ability to attract exotic women never ceases to impress.

It's fair to say, after all, that there are a great deal of men out there who are either taller, better looking or younger - or all of these things.

But the balding 62-year-old appears to have done it yet again.



The authors: Salman Rushdie's companion at a New York literary event on Tuesday evening was writer Min Lieskovsky

Perhaps it's his literary talent. Certainly the latest young woman to appear on his arm might appreciate it - she's a writer herself.

Rushdie stepped out in New York with stunning 26-year-old Harvard graduate and author Min Lieskovsky.

He's definitely not Miss Lieskovsky's usual type. She has openly boasted about her love for male models.

Writing in the magazine ElleGirl last year, the Chinese/Hungarian said: 'I'm addicted to male models. I've dated six of the world's top models, as ranked by Models.com, the so-called NASDAQ of modelling.'



It remains unclear which six of the world's top-ranked male models Miss Lieskovsky has called her boyfriend.

However, her boast may have given Rushdie pause before he helped himself to that extra vol-au-vent when the couple had their first public outing at the Norman Mailer Writers' Colony Gala in New York this week.

They appeared together only a week after Rushdie accused his last statuesque partner Pia Glenn of being 'unstable' and an 'accomplished liar'.



Former flames: Ex-wife Padma Lakshmi (left) and more recent ex-lover Pia Glenn



The author lashed out after actress Miss Glenn, 32, claimed that the reason they broke up was because he was 'dysfunctional' and still obsessed with his ex-wife Padma Lakshmi.

A furious Rushdie told a US newspaper: 'The reason I broke up with Pia Glenn is that I came to feel that she's an unstable person who carries around a large, radioactive bucket of stress wherever she goes. It was just exhausting to deal with.



'Her recent explosions demonstrate that she is also an accomplished liar.'



Glenn had claimed this week that they lived together and were discussing having children.

And she claimed: 'He stole more than a year of my life.'

Rushdie insisted: 'We never lived together - she lived at her father's home on Long Island. We never agreed to have children together.

'Our relationship lasted five and a half months, so it's hard to see how I "stole a year" of her life.'

At 6ft, Miss Glenn stood three inches above Rushdie, as did his former wife, his fourth, model Miss Lakshmi, now 39.

He was married to the Indian-American for three years before they divorced in 2007.

She is pregnant with her first child, though the father has not been publicly named.