A new BBC documentary says the Egyptian-born businessman - who died in London aged 94 last August - carried out the attacks during his time in charge of the elite outlet.
Former Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of rape, with five female ex-employees alleging the late billionaire sexually assaulted them while in charge of the luxury London department store.
The new programme called Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods - says the firm itself not only failed to intervene to help the alleged victims but also covered up their claims. The corporation says more than 20 female former workers at Harrods have come forward to accuse Al Fayed of sexual abuse The alleged attacks are said to have happened not only in London including at his Mayfair flat in the capital but also in Paris, at the Ritz hotel which he owned, and St Tropez in France as well as Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
Another woman told of being raped at the Mayfair address as a teenager, describing staff at Harrods as being treated as his 'playthings'.'We were all so scared. He actively cultivated fear. If he said 'jump', employees would ask, 'How high?'' She says he raped her at Villa Windsor in Paris's Bois de Boulogne, a former home of post-abdication King Edward VIII and his wife Wallis SimpsonMohamed Al Fayed, former owner of Harrods and Fulham FC, is pictured here in 2018
Read More Mohamed Al-Fayed is buried next to his son at the family mausoleum as former Harrods tycoon passes away at age 94 'I was kind of face down on the bed and he just pressed himself on me.'Fayed was accused of sexual assault when alive, but the BBC now says it believes many more women could have been victims of him.
Harrods said in a statement to the BBC: 'The Harrods of today is a very different organisation to the one owned and controlled by Al Fayed between 1985 and 2010. Read More DOMINIC LAWSON: He cast himself as a man of the people who took on the Establishment. But Fayed was obsessed with status and wealth, and abused both The Ritz hotel in Paris, formerly owned by Fayed, told the the BBC that it 'strongly condemns all forms of behaviour that do not align with the values of the establishment'.
Fayed is believed to have met Diana, Princess of Wales, and the then-Prince Charles at a polo match in the 1980s - and through this connection introduced her to his son Dodi.
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