Disgraced Harrods boss Mohamed Al-Fayed forced teenage girls to perform a perverse horse parade in front of him so he could ogle them lustfully.
The “creepy” Egyptian billionaire, who died last year aged 94, liked to watch their “young bodies move up and down”.
A former stable boy told how Al-Fayed would sit in a tent outside his garden at his Barrow Green estate in Surrey “and shout at us to run past him with his horses”.
The woman, who was 15 when she worked for the sexual predator in 1987, said The sun“He’d like to see us in our Harrods shirts and jodhpurs.”
She said he “had fun” when people were on tenterhooks for fear of losing their jobs and upsetting him, but he did not fear any backlash because he was “the god of his domain.”
Disgraced Harrods boss Mohamed Al-Fayed forced teenage girls to perform a twisted horse parade in front of him so he could gaze at them lustfully.
The “creepy” Egyptian billionaire, who died last year aged 94, liked to watch their “young bodies bobbing up and down” in his Harrods T-shirts and jodhpurs.
A former stable boy told how Al-Fayed would sit in a tent outside his garden at his Barrow Green estate in Surrey (pictured) “and shout at us to run past him with his horses”.
She told how he would go around his luxurious property offering cash to girls he liked and try to lure them to London with the promise of more money.
“He knew how young I was, but he still asked me to come to London to visit him when his family wasn’t around,” she said.
‘I pretended I had a boyfriend to get out of a tight spot.’
Lawyers representing women who say they were sexually assaulted by Al Fayed say they have had “more than 150 new enquiries” since a damning BBC documentary aired.
Five women say they were raped by Al Fayed, while dozens of others have alleged sexual misconduct.
The new investigations refer to a “mix of survivors and people with evidence regarding Al Fayed.”
Lawyer 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 unveiling of the Dodi Al Fayed and Diana memorial at Harrods
Lawyers representing women who claim they were sexually assaulted by Al Fayed say they have “had more than 150 new enquiries” since the broadcast of a damning BBC documentary
Mr Drummond added that his legal team was working “very closely” with Gloria Allred, considered a stalwart advocate for women’s rights cases in the United States, because the attacks are also alleged to have taken place in the United States.
He said some of the survivors came from Malaysia, Dubai, Canada and France, while the Ritz Hotel in Paris, once owned by Al Fayed, had also been the scene of alleged attacks.
Drummond told the programme: “It’s a very global case, it’s not just about the UK. It happened all over the world.”
Harrods said in a statement earlier this week: “We are absolutely appalled by the allegations of abuse perpetrated by Mohamed al Fayed.
‘These were the actions of an individual who intended to abuse his power wherever he operated and we condemn them in the strongest terms.
‘We also recognize that during this time as a company we failed our employees who were victims and for this we sincerely apologize.
‘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 wellbeing of our employees at the heart of everything we do.’
Harrods added that it had been a “priority” to resolve the claims since “new information came to light in 2023 about historical allegations of sexual abuse by Fayed”.
Commenting on that statement, Mr Drummond said it was “absolutely inconceivable” that Harrods’ current owners, the state of Qatar, could not have known about any “outstanding claims or liabilities” against the business at the time of their purchase in 2010.
He added: “If you buy a company, you take with you the responsibilities of that company.”
Maria Mulla, another lawyer on the legal team, told Times Radio she had heard stories of women in Harrods “being shoved into cupboards” when Al Fayed walked by “so they wouldn’t be seen”.
His comments came as a former Harrods employee, who asked to remain anonymous, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the luxury retailer’s “enablers” were “just as guilty as Al Fayed because they were not simply passive bystanders”.
The woman, referred to in the programme as Catherine, said she worked at Harrods in a “very minor role” when she was 21.
Al Fayed is accused of raping and assaulting several women during his time as owner of Harrods between 1985 and 2010.
She said: ‘They were actually helping to send girl after girl into a total nightmare.
‘I think some people should be identified and questioned about their complicity.
“This is basically psychological manipulation, as the evidence suggests, and they should face justice.”
Sources within Harrods have said the company has accepted vicarious liability for Al Fayed’s conduct in order to resolve claims from 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 outlet 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 resolve the claims as quickly as possible, avoiding lengthy legal proceedings for the women involved.”
