After allegations of abuse against the former owner of the London luxury department store Harrod, Mohamed Al Fayed, a law firm prepares a civil lawsuit. On behalf of five women, the Leigh Day company wants to assert claims against Al Fayed’s estate administration.
Between 1995 and 2012, the women had worked as a nanny or stewardesses for his airline, the law firm said. They were exposed to severe sexual abuse, harassment and abuse.
Several women had accused the now died entrepreneur sexual violence. Al Fayed owned the Harrods department store and the London football club FC Fulham. Many of his victims are said to have been employees. His son Dodi was the last partner of Princess Diana – the two died in a car accident in Paris in 1997.
More than 100 alleged victims
Between 2005 and Al Fayed’s death in 2023, 21 women had reported the entrepreneur. Under no circumstances did a procedure occurred. After the BBC had made the allegations of two women for the first time in September, according to the London police, 90 other suspected victims reported.
The law firm Leigh Day claims to represent 27 women who raise allegations against Al Fayed and one of his brothers. They were commissioned to strive for damages and a public investigation, the statement said. According to the PA news agency, the lawyers who manage Al Fayed’s estate were not initially expressed.
One of the sons of the died businessman had regretted that his father had not been charged during his lifetime. He wished that the London police’s investigation could “have taken their course when he was still alive,” said Omar Al Fayed of the newspaper ‘Mail on Sunday’ last year. He was relieved that the allegations are now known.