Gardulla Besadii the Elder / Legends Gardulla Besadii the Elder , better known as Gardulla the Hutt , was a feminine - natured Hutt crime lord who vied for control of Tatooine in the last centuries of the Galactic Republic . The mother of Gardulla Besadii the Younger and Decca Besadii Diori , Gardulla was the one - time owner of Anakin and Shmi Skywalker until she lost them to the Toydarian junk dealer Watto in a podracing bet . This weakness for excessive gambling continually marred her long life with failure and defeat , and led to her downfall in a pronounced rivalry with Jabba Desilijic Tiure , who usurped control of Tatooine and attempted to have her assassinated . Gardulla survived , but by the time of the Clone Wars , was reduced to serving as Jabba ' s representative on Nal Hutta . Biography . Consequences of gambling and crime . Born in 700 BBY on Nal Hutta , Gardulla ' s criminal activities flourished during the golden age of her rule , in which her use of slavery would seem to have granted her great fortune , although it caused numerous conflicts between her and the more powerful Jabba Desilijic Tiure . At one point , she resorted to a limited partnership with Jabba , who would become her greatest rival , after she lost her entire fortune on gambling . Gardulla still maintained power over her slave trade franchise . The Republic soon outlawed slavery in the Outer Rim Territories , as soon as the two Hutts ' agreement was reached ; Gardulla was to be sentenced to life in prison . Eventually , though , she escaped and returned to Tatooine , where she would control her failing criminal empire . Rumors of a romance between Gardulla and Jabba erupted , with her presence at his Tatooine townhome only fueling the speculation . Her true motivations remained her own . Gardulla ' s revenge . In 67 BBY , fueled by her desire to wrest Tatooine from the clutches of the Desilijic Hutt clan , the Besadii crimelord and notorious gambler traveled ( by secret invitation ) to the occult Gathering of Sojourn and there petitioned Hego Damask ( the Sith Lord Darth Plagueis ) to fund her planned takeover of the arid Arkanis sector planet . Gardulla considered Damask ' s financial power and Muunilinst IBC connections as key to a successful grab for Tatooine , which included plans for the building of a Podrace course that would make those of the rest of the galaxy seem like amateur runs . At the root of her proposal , of course , were unexampled gambling profits to be realized , a worthwhile portion of which she promised to reserve for her ' silent partner ' . The powerful Muun agreed to the proposition , along with his own stipulation that Gardulla allow an arrangement - of - favor to be struck on behalf of a crime - boss acquaintance ( who was set to soon answer to Black Sun overlord Alexi Garyn , concurrently being groomed for leadership by the crime syndicate ) . She reluctantly agreed , and Damask sealed the deal by promising to advance her the needed credits for her Podrace enterprise through the Bank of Aargau . More than thirty standard years later Damask reneged on the agreement , when in 34 BBY , he struck a new deal with Jabba Desilijic Tiure to allow the Hutt the self - proclaimed title of Tatooine ' overseer ' by ceasing to fund Gardulla ' s ventures ( Jabba wanted economic siege for his rival , to ' starve her out ' ) . In exchange , Jabba promised to reveal to Damask valuable secret information regarding the Bando Gora , the Force - worshiping cult and criminal terrorist organization assailing Damask ' s interests in the Outer Rim , truly an agitating thorn in the Sith Lord ' s side : that its new leader Komari Vosa ( former Padawan of Jedi Master Dooku who had fallen to the Dark Side ) was in league with Gardulla in a contaminated death - stick to supply the Bando Gora with ' brain dead ' recruits . In light of this incriminating information against the Besadii Hutt , Damask felt fully justified . But feeling betrayed herself , Gardulla soon joined forces with Vosa ' s notorious terrorist group , corrupt King Veruna of Naboo , and the Black Sun crime syndicate to wreak revenge on Damask by targeting with an nuclear warhead his clandestine outpost on the Sojourn - moon . But , courtesy of Jabba ' s spy network and personal starship interceptor " Star Jewel , " Damask escaped the bombardment ( an attack carried out concurrently with the Republic ' s Eriadu Summit with the Trade Federation , at which event Damask orchestrated and delivered his own powerful attack ) . With the aid of Darth Sidious and his Zabrak assassin , the IBC magnate / Sith Lord then took quick revenge upon involved in the plot against his life , with the exception of Gardulla , whom he left to Jabba ( and Darth Sidious , whom he didn ' t suspect , but who in fact was the mastermind of the nuclear attack , having merely used weak - minded individuals to carry out his will , allowing them the belief that they alone were responsible ) . Palpatine had learned , moments before the Eriadu Trade Summit was to commence , that scandalous King Veruna had quite suddenly abdicated his throne to young Padmé Amidala ( upon learning from the exultant Jabba that Damask was still very much alive ) . Damask decreed , therefore , that he himself would personally attend to the Naboo monarch ' s dark but deserved fate . In 32 BBY , less than two weeks before the Boonta Eve Classic , Gardulla — a connoisseur in exotic alien creatures , which she unabashedly housed in her great palace near the Dune Sea on Tatooine — kidnapped , with the purpose to enslave as ornaments in her luxurious if notorious pleasure garden , several Ghostling children . These delicate and beautiful native creatures of the planet Datar were rescued from that heinous fate through the brave exploits of young Anakin Skywalker and his childhood friends , including the boy Kitster Banai , the Bothan Dorn , and the young Twi ' lek Pala Kwi ' teksa . Anakin , Kitster , and Pala , had all been enslaved to Gardulla within the walls of her fortress as very young children , before Anakin and Pala were acquired by new masters ; hence , they knew one another intimately and had been the best of friends for as long as they could remember . As soon as one of the children responsible for the theft of the Ghostlings had been identified by using a DNA scanner on a small piece of skin found at the scene of the crime , Gardulla sought revenge against the children by attempting to activate Pala ' s implanted slave tracking chip , which would have exploded and killed her had it not been for the signal scrambler device that Anakin had constructed and gifted to his friend to protect her . The Boonta Eve Classic . Gardulla , whose grand plans for a peerless Podrace course were eclipsed over the years by Jabba ' s own , had been a longtime supporter of the Dug podracer , Sebulba . Before the spectacular Boonta Eve Classic of 32 BBY in which Sebulba was to participate , Gardulla tried to trick Jabba into thinking a less likely racer , the Xexto Gasgano , would win . She predictably failed in her cunning and felt she was tricked herself , in that Jabba ' s astromech droid had determined Anakin Skywalker might succeed . She had wagered that he ' d lose , and to be sure , Gardulla employed the use of her majordomo , Diva Funquita , to find someone in Mos Espa to sabotage the boy ' s podracer . Funquita hired the Nuknog racer , Ark " Bumpy " Roose , to carry out the job . But Roose erroneously sabotaged the podracer of Ben Quadinaros . The effect of this was apparent when the race began and Skywalker busted through to a top place after a slow start while Quadrinaros ' racer awaited its eventual explosive doom ( when the racers came around for the second lap ) at the starting point , having barely moved past the first - lap start line . Gardulla , the plot ' s originator , surely had to have been humbled as well as infuriated . After the race , Gardulla tred to persuade Watto to sell Anakin back to her . Unfortunately , Watto was never able to retrieve the boy from Qui - Gon Jinn , who took him away to Coruscant to become a Jedi . Shmi Skywalker remained in Watto ' s service , until years later when he sold her to moisture farmer Cliegg Lars , who promptly freed and married her . Battle in the Jundland Wastes . The attack on the Tusken Raiders of Tatooine ' s Jundland Wastes would end up being the ultimate triumph and failure of Gardulla the Hutt . It traced its origins years back to when the Hutts were stuck with a junk surplus of weapons in the possession of Dreddon the Hutt . Jabba conceived the idea of sending thugs to raid Tusken camps , in turn causing the Sand People to raid nearby settlements , which gave the civilians a need for weaponry . Jabba then continually sold portions of Dreddon ' s surplus at inflated prices , increasing the profit of the Hutts . He remained the hero . Gardulla decided to assemble all her criminal forces to launch an assault on the Tusken Raiders , dispatching the bounty hunter Aurra Sing to personally assassinate the unknown Jedi leader , Sharad Hett . Her plan was to puncture the Tusken Raider defenses and slay all in the army ' s path , thus ending the " Tusken threat " and stopping Jabba ' s weapon franchise . She hoped that Nal Hutta would then see to it , at last , that she managed Tatooine . Gardulla ' s plot for wresting Tatooine power from the Desilijic Hutt clan failed , and the crimelord was forced to retreat to her palace in Mos Espa — but not without the mortifying and degrading assistance of her arch - rival , Jabba , who was tipped off by Sing ( revealing the bounty hunter to be a double agent ) . At some point , Gardulla presumably established Gardulla Oola hotel in Mos Eisley . Jango Fett . Possibly a year or more before 34 BBY , Gardulla became associated with Komari Vosa , leader of the deadly Bando Gora terrorist cult . Gardulla used her resources to transport for the Bando Gora special mind - altering substances to the Malastare Dug crime lord and drug producer Sebolto to create tainted " death sticks " for trafficking ; these death sticks would turn already ' brain - dead ' addicts into mindless , brainwashed slaves , whom Gardulla would then dispatch to Vosa as new cult ' recruits ' . Separatist leader Darth Tyranus , on Darth Sidious ' order , dispatched bounty hunters Jango Fett and Montross to track down and destroy the cult ; Fett and his partner Zam Wesell followed leads across the galaxy that eventually led to Gardulla . While changing into a " disguise " , the shapeshifting Clawdite Wesell was captured and imprisoned in Gardulla ' s dungeons , and there waited to be fed to her pet canyon krayt dragon . Gardulla did not know that Zam was working with Jango Fett . On a tip from Jabba Desilijic Tiure , Jango infiltrated Gardulla ' s palace soon afterward . When the bounty hunter refused to release Wesell from her cell so that Gardulla ' s pet might feast , the Hutt called for her guards , and Jango was captured . Brought before the Hutt crime lord , Jango was to be fed to her krayt dragon instead , and Wesell was to be sold as a slave . Jango managed to escape the jaws of the krayt dragon , and after defeating legions of armed guards , he at last burst into Gardulla ' s throne room . Jango interrogated the Hutt about Komari Vosa , but she refused to tell him anything , saying the bounty hunter didn ' t know what he was up against ; Gardulla then released her krayt dragon into the throne room to finish Jango off . To prove her wrong and fulfill his mission , Jango then maneuvered behind Gardulla and pushed her off her throne into the beast arena . She was then promptly devoured by the dragon in a matter of seconds . Working for Jabba . Gardulla , ostensibly — just as she ' d always seemed able to do against any and all attackers — survived ; Jango Fett had killed the krayt dragon before it could fully digest her , allowing Gardulla to crawl out of its stomach and exit through its mouth . During the Clone Wars , circumstances found her working for Jabba , serving as his representative on Nal Hutta . She , along with the other heads of the five Hutt families , listened to Ziro the Hutt ' s testimony regarding a holo - diary which listed the many heinous crimes of the Hutt Council . When Jedi Masters Obi - Wan Kenobi and Quinlan Vos arrived on Nal Hutta to report that Ziro had escaped with the help of Cad Bane , Gardulla told Kenobi that she and the rest of the council knew of this already . After Vos stated that he thought that the Hutt Council was behind Ziro ' s escape , Gardulla threatened him , saying that if Vos were alone , he would not be allowed to leave alive . After Ziro escaped , Gardulla and the Council hired Cad Bane to track down both the diary and Ziro , who had just escaped with the help of Sy Snootles . Unknown to Gardulla , Sy was also hired by Jabba to kill Ziro once the diary was in her possession . Sy easily killed Ziro and delivered the diary to Jabba before Bane could arrive . Behind the scenes . Gardulla ' s voice in " " was provided by Susan Boyd .