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Former Harrods leader MohamedFayed has been accused of rape, pinch 5 female ex-employees alleging nan precocious billionaire sexually assaulted them astatine nan luxury London department store.
A caller BBC documentary says nan Egyptian-born businessman - who died successful London aged 94 past August - carried retired nan attacks during his clip successful complaint of nan outlet betwixt 1984 and its waste successful 2010.
The corp says much than 20 female erstwhile workers astatine Harrods person travel guardant to impeach him of intersexual abuse.
The caller programme calledFayed: Predator astatine Harrods - says nan patient itself not only grounded to intervene to thief nan alleged victims but besides covered up their claims.
The store's existent owners person now told of being 'utterly appalled' by nan accusations and person apologised to nan women affected.
Former Harrods proprietor MohamedFayed has been accused of intersexual battle by aggregate women including one, Gemma, who worked arsenic his individual adjunct betwixt 2007 and 2009
A caller BBC documentary says nan Egyptian-born businessman - who died successful London aged 94 past August - carried retired nan attacks while Harrods leader betwixt 1984 and its waste successful 2010
The corp says much than 20 female erstwhile workers astatine Harrods person travel guardant to impeachFayed (pictured) of intersexual abuse
Bruce Drummond, a barrister representing immoderate of nan ex-employees, said: 'The spider’s web of corruption and maltreatment successful this institution was unbelievable and very dark.'
The alleged attacks are said to person happened not only successful London but besides successful Paris and St Tropez successful France and Abu Dhabi successful nan United Arab Emirates.
One of nan women involved, who says Fayed raped her astatine his flat successful London's Park Lane district, told BBC investigators: 'I made it evident that I didn't want that to happen.
'I did not springiness consent. I conscionable wanted it to beryllium over.'
Another female described being raped astatine nan Mayfair reside arsenic a teenager, describing unit astatine Harrods arsenic being treated arsenic his 'playthings'.
She said: 'MohamedFayed was a monster, a intersexual predator pinch nary civilized compass whatsoever.
'We were each truthful scared. He actively cultivated fear. If he said "jump", labor would ask, "How high?"'
One of his alleged victims was named arsenic Gemma, who worked forFayed arsenic a individual adjunct betwixt 2007 and 2009 - and tells really his behaviour would move much scary during activity trips abroad.
She says he raped her astatine Villa Windsor successful Paris's Bois de Boulogne, a erstwhile location of post-abdication King Edward VIII and his woman Wallis Simpson.
She described waking up to find him attempting to get into furniture pinch her, adding: 'I told him, "No, I don't want you to".
MohamedFayed, erstwhile proprietor of Harrods and Fulham FC, successful 2018
MohamedFayed pictured alongside Diana, Princess of Wales astatine a kindness arena held astatine Harrods successful London successful 1996
'And he proceeded to conscionable support trying to get successful nan bed, astatine which constituent he was benignant of connected apical of maine and [I] really couldn't move anywhere.
'I was benignant of look down connected nan furniture and he conscionable pressed himself connected me.'
Fayed was accused of intersexual battle erstwhile alive, but nan BBC now says it believes galore much women could person been victims of him.
Harrods said successful a connection to nan BBC: 'The Harrods of coming is simply a very different organisation to nan 1 owned and controlled byFayed betwixt 1985 and 2010.
'It is 1 that seeks to put nan use of our labor astatine nan bosom of everything we do.'
Fayed was calved successful Alexandria successful 1929 and moved to nan UK successful nan 1960s, becoming an early driving unit successful nan improvement of Dubai.
He later bought House of Fraser, including Harrods, pinch his brothers, arsenic good arsenic nan Ritz edifice successful Paris, which he owned up until his death.
He had begun his profession trading fizzy drinks and past worked arsenic a sewing-machine salesman.
He built his family's luck successful existent estate, shipping and construction, first successful nan Middle East and past successful Europe.
MohamedFayed pictured pinch his woman Heini Wathen successful 2016. The mates had 4 children
MrFayed (right) pinch Prince Charles (with his backmost to camera) and Diana during a Harrods-sponsored polo lucifer successful 1987
MohamedFayed pinch nan Queen successful 1997. His business connections and kindness activity saw him mixing pinch precocious nine contempt his complaints astir what he saw arsenic constitution bias
A operation of building a business empire successful nan UK and establishing a charitable instauration saw him mixing pinch nan UK's astir illustrious figures - from stars to royalty.
Fayed is believed to person met Diana, Princess of Wales, and nan then-Prince Charles astatine a polo lucifer successful nan 1980s - and done this relationship introduced her to his boy Dodi.
He later pursued investigations into nan clang which killed Dodi and Diana connected August 31 1997 - almost precisely 26 years earlier his ain death.
Diana - who was divided from Charles successful 1992 - and Dodi were pictured together successful St Tropez successful 1997, sparking rumours of romance.
The brace past travelled together arsenic they sought to time off nan Ritz Hotel successful Paris connected nan fateful greeting of August 31 that year.
The younger Al-Fayed and nan Princess of Wales were being driven distant from paparazzi by Henri Paul, nan lawman caput of information astatine nan hotel, erstwhile Paul mislaid power of nan car and struck a pillar astatine a velocity of astir 65mph.
Dodi's begetter Fayed opened his ain backstage investigation into nan clang aft being dissatisfied pinch nan charismatic investigations - and promoted a bid of conspiracy theories alleging that nan constitution had a manus successful their deaths.
But a 2008 inquest concluded that Dodi and Diana were unlawfully killed by a operation of Paul's driving nether nan power of alcohol, nan truth neither were wearing seatbelts and nan erratic driving of paparazzi pursuing them.
