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‘He knew what Mohamed was doing’: Fayed security chief accused of facilitating abuse

Multiple women say John Macnamara – the ex-detective whose job was to shut down allegations about Fayed – sought to break their will to speak out

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OPINION - I saw behind the curtain at Mohammed Al Fayed's Paris mansion — he always hid in plain sight

There’s a reason why I feel unease about the Mohamed Al Fayed allegations, the ones suggesting that he sexually assaulted umpteen women and regarded Harrods employees as fair game. It’s because I was around during the time he was trying to penetrate the Establishment, a more difficult call in the…

Evening Standard

Mohamed Al Fayed: the ebullient entrepreneur who acquired Harrods

“If the novelists P.G. Wodehouse, Jackie Collins and Naguib Mahfouz had been asked to pool their creative talents, they would have struggled to invent a character as bold and controversial as Mohamed Al Fayed,” said Andrew Anthony in The Observer.

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Mohamed Al Fayed: perennial outsider, savvy businessman and grief-broken father

The larger-than-life ex-Harrods owner, who has died aged 94, was never far from the headlines or controversy but was an indomitably bold figure

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Mohamed Al Fayed obituary

Former owner of Harrods and Fulham FC whose stormy relationship with British institutions denied him citizenship

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The Observer city editor at the centre of the 1980s battle over Harrods

Melvyn Marckus led investigations into big business scandals in the 1980s and 90s at Asil Nadir’s Polly Peck and the Bank of Credit & Commerce International

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‘A newspaperman to his fingertips’: late Observer editor Donald Trelford remembered

Colleagues recall the former editor, who died last week – a consummate journalist who carried the flame of liberalism in an uncertain age

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Donald Trelford obituary

Editor of the Observer in the 1970s and 80s who fought to retain the paper’s integrity and identity

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Top 10 books about tycoons

From rapacious businessmen to political power brokers, this literature extends from biographies of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Tiny Rowland to novels by Scott Fitzgerald and Preti Taneja

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