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HARRODS Predator Al Fayed Abused/Raped Staff-Gloria Alfred Joins Legal Team
Al Fayed, Predator at Harrods...'WEB OF CORRUPTION' Mohamed Al Fayed Forced Staff to Take SEXUAL Health Tests & Harrods Covering Up Rape Claims Against Him
Multiple women, ALL OVER THE WORLD, have accused Mohamed al-Fayed, the billionaire former owner of Harrods, the luxury British department store, of rape and sexual assault.. Legal Team Includes Gloria Alfred
'We Were All So Scared. He Actively Cultivated Fear'..
BBC 20 SEP 2024
Mohamed Al Fayed was the owner of Londons luxury department store Harrods, one of the worlds most famous shops.
The BBC has heard testimony from more than 37 female ex-employees who say the billionaire, who died last year aged 94, sexually assaulted or raped them. This is a story of power and control at the very top of British society.
Many women said Mr. Fayed, who died in 2023 at age 94, had raped them, while others detailed alarming accounts of sexual assault and harassment while they were working at Harrods.
Mr. Fayed, a tycoon with numerous properties and ships around the world, owned Harrods from 1985 to 2010. Later in his life, he became best known for the romance between his son, Dodi, and Diana, Princess of Wales, who both died in a 1997 car crash in Paris.
In a BBC documentary released on Thursday called Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods, more than 37 female ex-employees presented harrowing accounts of abuse. The allegations span years and continents, with accusations in London, Paris, St. Tropez and Abu Dhabi.
While the BBC investigation is not the first to accuse Mr. Fayed of unwanted sexual advances or harassment, it offers the clearest picture yet of abusive patterns of behavior and raises questions about how womens accounts were dismissed for so long.
In a 1995 investigation in Vanity Fair by Maureen Orth, an employee said that Mr. Fayed regularly walked the store on the lookout for young, attractive women to work in his office and detailed other problematic behaviour. Mr. Fayed sued for libel but eventually dropped the case.
In 2017 and 2018, Channel 4, a British broadcaster, spoke to several people who said Mr. Fayed had sexually harassed and groomed female employees. Some of the women interviewed spoke again in the BBC documentary.
The current owners of the Harrods department store, in Knightsbridge, West London, said they were utterly appalled by the allegations.
Mr. Fayed sold Harrods to Qatars sovereign wealth fund in 2010 for 1.5 billion pounds, about $2 billion at todays exchange rate.
These were the actions of an individual who was intent on abusing his power wherever he operated and we condemn them in the strongest terms, the company said. We also acknowledge that during this time his victims were failed and for this we sincerely apologize. We are doing everything we can to fix this.
The company said it was now a very different organization from the one Mr. Fayed had owned and controlled, and added that since 2023, when new information had come to light about allegations of sexual abuse
It has been our priority to settle claims in the quickest way possible, avoiding lengthy legal proceedings for the women involved. That process is still available for any current or former Harrods employees, the company added.
LISTEN; World Of Secrets
Legal Team Featured in BBC Documentary on Al-Fayed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IHpD53h_G0
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