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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Mohamed fayed - Caught on Camera

In France, women accusing Al-Fayed seek answers over trafficking claims

Mohamed Al-Fayed traded on the glamour of owning Harrods, the Paris Ritz and luxury yachts, but he and his brother were also at the centre of a dark web of alleged abuse, say French lawyers for women who liken him to US sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

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OPINION - Mohammed Al Fayed and Harrods — it only gets worse, which is why rage is the answer

The horrific crimes committed by Mohamed Al Fayed, the former Harrods owner, are back in the news again. We are now learning that one of his victims could have been as young as 13 and the number of women he could have raped could be in the hundreds.

Evening Standard

'Mohamed Al Fayed's brother Salah also abused us', women say

Salah Al Fayed abused women while they were employed by Harrods, victims have alleged

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‘Mohamed Al Fayed’s brother Salah also abused us’, say women

The women told the BBC that Salah Fayed abused them in London, the south of France and Monaco between 1989 and 1997.

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Harrods appoints Jasvinder Sanghera as advocate for survivors of alleged abuse

The department store confirmed ‘over 290 individuals’ were engaged in the Harrods process.

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OPINION - Mohamed Al Fayed is just the latest in the litany of men abusing women

Amy Winehouse called a song, “What is it about men?”. My question exactly as the summer ends.

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How Accurate Is The Crown Season Six Part One, And What Really Happened Between Diana And Dodi?

Netflix's blockbuster royal family biopic The Crown just dropped the first part of its sixth and final season, But how accurate is the show?

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Fawning over Fayed? We’re all as guilty as each other

Media Watch: Anyone who was deemed a threat to the former Harrods owner was silenced. And we editors played our part, too

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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.

The Week

OPINION - The Mohamed Al Fayed I knew was masterful

The death aged 94 of former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed brings down an Egyptian curtain on the window of the world’s most famous store. Of course he was known for many other things. He was as at ease on one of his roll backed Chesterfields as the sofa of…

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

Mohamed Al Fayed obituary

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

The Guardian - UK

The Crown season 5: fact or fiction? What’s real and what’s invented in the new series of the Netflix hit?

What Peter Morgan got right, what he might have taken some dramatic licence with... SPOILERS AHEAD

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Omar Fayed selling £5 million Primrose Hill home on mews where Tina Turner and David Bowie recorded

The environmental entrepreneur’s “creative bolthole” is now selling for £5 million

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Mohamed Fayed’s wife in high court bid to halt crematorium near their Surrey mansion

Heini Wathen-Fayed says she wants the ‘peaceful and natural area’ to be preserved

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