Disgraced Harrods boss Mohamed Al-Fayed forced teenage girls to conduct a twisted horse parade in front of him so he could ogle them.
The ‘creepy’ Egyptian billionaire, who died last year aged 94, liked to watch their ‘young bodies moving up and down’.
A former stable hand told how Al-Fayed would sit in a marquee in the front of his lawn at his Barrow Green Estate in Surrey ‘and bark at us to jog by him with his horses’.
The woman, who was aged 15 when she worked for the sex predator in 1987, told The Sun: ‘He’d like to watch us in our Harrods tops and jodhpurs.’
She said he ‘got off’ on people being on tenterhooks of fearing for their jobs and upsetting him, but he did not fear any comeback as he was ‘god of his domain’.
Disgraced Harrods boss Mohamed Al-Fayed forced teenage girls to conduct a twisted horse parade in front of him so he could ogle them
The ‘creepy’ Egyptian billionaire, who died last year aged 94, liked to watch their ‘young bodies moving up and down’ in their Harrods tops and jodhpurs
A former stable hand told how Al-Fayed would sit in a marquee in the front of his lawn at his Barrow Green Estate in Surrey (pictured) ‘and bark at us to jog by him with his horses’
She told how he would go around his plush estate offering cash to girls he was fond of and tried to lure them to London with the promise of more money.
‘He knew how young I was but would still ask me to go to London and visit him when he wouldn’t have his family around him,’ she said.
‘I pretended that I had a boyfriend to get out of it.’
Lawyers representing women claiming they were sexually assaulted by Al Fayed say they have ‘had over 150 new enquiries’ since the airing of a damning BBC documentary.
Five women allege they were raped by Al Fayed, with dozens of others alleging sexual misconduct.
The new enquiries relate to a ‘mix of survivors and individuals with evidence about Al Fayed’.
Barrister Bruce Drummond, part of the legal team representing 37 alleged victims in a civil case against Harrods, told BBC Radio 4 on Saturday: ‘This is the worst case of corporate sexual exploitation of young women that I have ever seen, and I think probably the world has ever seen.’
Gemma (pictured), who worked as his personal assistant between 2007 and 2009, says she was raped by Al Fayed during a work trip to Paris
Mohamed Al Fayed pictured during the Dodi Al Fayed and Diana Memorial unveiling at Harrods
Lawyers representing women claiming they were sexually assaulted by Al Fayed say they have ‘had over 150 new enquiries’ since the airing of a damning BBC documentary
Mr Drummond added that his legal team was working ‘very closely’ with Gloria Allred, seen as a stalwart lawyer in women’s rights cases in the US, because the assaults are also alleged to have taken place in America.
He said some of the survivors come from Malaysia, Dubai, Canada and France, while the Ritz Hotel in Paris, which Al Fayed once owned, had also been the scene of alleged assaults.
Mr Drummond said on the programme: ‘It’s very much a global case, it’s not just the UK. It happened all over the world.’
Harrods said earlier this week in a statement: ‘We are utterly appalled by the allegations of abuse perpetrated by Mohamed al Fayed.
‘These were the actions of an individual who was intent on abusing his power wherever he operated and we condemn them in the strongest terms.
‘We also acknowledge that during this time as a business we failed our employees who were his victims and for this we sincerely apologise.
‘The Harrods of today is a very different organisation to the one owned and controlled by Fayed between 1985 and 2010, it is one that seeks to put the welfare of our employees at the heart of everything we do.’
Harrods added that it had been a ‘priority’ to settle claims since ‘new information came to light in 2023 about historic allegations of sexual abuse by Fayed’.
In relation to that statement, Mr Drummond said it was ‘absolutely inconceivable’ the current owners of Harrods, the state of Qatar, could not have known about any ‘outstanding claims or liabilities’ against the business at the time of purchasing it in 2010.
He added: ‘If you buy a company then you take with it the responsibilities of that company.’
Elsewhere Maria Mulla, another barrister in the legal team, told Times Radio that she had heard stories of women at Harrods ‘being put into cupboards’ when Al Fayed was walking round so ‘they wouldn’t be spotted’.
Their comments came as a former Harrods employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme of ‘enablers’ at the luxury store who were ‘as guilty as Al Fayed because they were not just passive onlookers’.
The woman, referred to as Catherine in the programme, said she worked for Harrods in a ‘very junior role’ when she was 21.
Al Fayed is accused of raping and assaulting multiple women during his time as Harrods owner from 1985 to 2010
She said: ‘They were actually helping to send girl after girl into a total nightmare.
‘I think that some individuals should be identified and that they should be questioned into their collusion.
‘It is essentially grooming, as the evidence suggests, and they should face justice.’
Sources within Harrods have said the business has accepted vicarious liability for the conduct of Al Fayed for the purpose of settling claims of alleged victims brought to its attention since 2023, reaching settlements with the vast majority.
In its statement on the BBC Documentary, Al-Fayed: Predator At Harrods, which aired on Thursday, Harrods said it was ‘a very different organisation to the one owned and controlled by Al Fayed between 1985 and 2010’.
The store added that ‘since new information came to light in 2023 about historic allegations of sexual abuse by Al Fayed, it has been our priority to settle claims in the quickest way possible, avoiding lengthy legal proceedings for the women involved’.
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