Harrods boss Fayed 'raped five employees and sexually assaulted at least 15 more'

THE late Harrods tycoon Mohamed Fayed has been accused of raping, sexually assaulting and attacking female employees in more than two decades of abuse.

- Tristan Kirk

More than 20 women say they were subjected to physical and sexual violence from the businessman during his 25-year ownership of Harrods.

Fayed, the ex-Fulham FC chairman, is dubbed a “predator” and a “monster” in a new BBC2 documentary, Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods, while Harrods has issued an apology for failing its staff.

Four women say they were raped by Fayed at his private apartments in Park Lane, next to the Dorchester Hotel. Others accuse the tycoon of targeting them at his Villa Windsor mansion in Paris, which featured in a recent series of Netflix’s The Crown.

One woman Gemma, who has waived her right to anonymity, told the BBC she was raped by Fayed — whose son Dodi was killed in a car crash alongside Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997 — during a work trip to Paris. The woman, who worked as one of Fayed’s personal assistants between 2007-09, said Fayed then aggressively told her to wash herself with Dettol. “Obviously he wanted me to erase any trace of him being anywhere near me,” she said.