65 more women tell BBC of sexual abuse by Al Fayed

A further 65 women person contacted the BBC saying they were abused by Mohamed Al Fayed, with allegations stretching acold beyond Harrods and arsenic acold backmost arsenic 1977.

Their accounts see caller details of intersexual harassment, intersexual battle and rape, sent to the BBC successful the weeks since the documentary Al Fayed: Predator astatine Harrods was broadcast.

They suggest Al Fayed, who died past year, utilized a broader scope of maltreatment tactics and besides targeted women employed extracurricular his businesses.

Several of the women interviewed by the BBC allege they were recruited by Al Fayed nether mendacious pretences into roles connected the billionaire’s home unit and were past sexually exploited by him - including astatine his mansion successful Oxted.

In the earliest accusation of maltreatment which the BBC has heard, a pistillate says she was assaulted by Al Fayed successful Dubai successful 1977, 8 years earlier his acquisition of Harrods helped him go a household sanction successful the UK.

She describes Al Fayed personally stalking and threatening her. Women who worked astatine Harrods accidental helium aboriginal carried retired akin intimidation tactics done a squad of information staff.

Of the 65 women who contacted the BBC to stock their accounts of abuse, 37 of these accidental they had worked astatine Harrods.

In effect to the BBC's inquiries, Harrods told us: “Since the airing of the documentary, truthful acold determination are 200+ individuals who are present successful the Harrods process to settee claims straight with the business."

The BBC has besides spoken to women who were not employed by Al Fayed who accidental that they were approached and assaulted by him.

One pistillate said she was moving astatine a London angiosperm store successful the aboriginal 1980s, erstwhile she was spotted by 1 of Al Fayed's team. Then aged 21, she says she was flown to the Paris Ritz for a purported occupation interview, wherever Al Fayed sexually assaulted her.

A erstwhile BBC make-up creator besides said she was sexually assaulted by Al Fayed erstwhile she was moving connected an occurrence of the Clothes Show successful 1989, successful which the billionaire was interviewed astatine Villa Windsor, his location successful Paris.

Margot, whose sanction we person changed, was 19 erstwhile she responded to a occupation advertisement successful The Lady mag successful 1985, for a presumption arsenic a nanny and governess successful Surrey. She submitted her exertion and a photograph arsenic requested.

Having worked arsenic a nanny before, she remembers uncovering it unusual that she was asked astatine the extremity of her interrogation "if I had a fellow oregon if I’ve ever had a boyfriend".

"I said no…[The interviewer] looked relieved astir it,” she told the BBC.

It was not until she was offered the occupation that she was told the relation was with Al Fayed and his family, astatine their Barrow Green Court mansion successful Oxted. Her parent encouraged her to effort a one-month trial.

“I retrieve being driven successful a chauffeured limousine done the incredibly awesome entranceway gates to Barrow Green Court and the agelong driveway up to a monolithic ceramic house,” she says.

Inside, Margot says she was shown to a small, dimly lit country - which had a azygous bed, a table and an interior telephone.

She soon learned to fearfulness the dependable of it ringing and Al Fayed summoning her. Expecting to spot the children, she would get to find him alone. This is erstwhile she says the repeated intersexual assaults started.

“The occupation conscionable didn’t exist. He didn’t request a nanny. He didn’t privation a nanny,” she told the BBC.

For 5 days, Margot says she lone saw the children doubly and was not allowed to interact with them. Instead each clip she was requested by Al Fayed, she says she was sexually assaulted by him - successful antithetic locations connected the estate, including the indoor pool, gardens and study.

She felt trapped. “Once you get successful the house, you can’t get out. You person to spell down a agelong driveway and done large gates astatine the bottom. He’s got to springiness support for the gates to open,” Margot told the BBC.

In the aboriginal hours 1 morning, she says Al Fayed came into her room, got into her bed, pressed her against the wall, and raped her vaginally and anally.

After helium near her room, she instantly packed her lawsuit and told Al Fayed aboriginal that time that she wanted to permission and did not recognize wherefore she was there. But helium refused and told her the occupation statement would “become overmuch clearer with time”.

He told her to springiness it 24 much hours, that helium was going to bargain her a location and springiness her much money. She says helium got precise aggravated erstwhile she again told him she wanted to leave.

“I was kept astatine Barrow Green Court, against my will, arsenic a captive for respective days and inactive consciousness that I was precise fortunate to escape.”

She says yet helium fto her leave, but arsenic she went a unit subordinate told her to “say thing astir my clip here, oregon my beingness would go precise difficult”.

“Looking back, I judge I was recruited purely arsenic a imaginable enactment spouse oregon plaything for Al Fayed, hence the questions astatine the interrogation to found if I was a virgin,” Margot says.

“The events of that week person affected maine ever since, I americium not the aforesaid trusting idiosyncratic anymore and I ne'er volition be.”

The BBC has besides heard accounts from different women who accidental they were recruited arsenic nannies, chefs and maids who accidental they were abused astatine his backstage residences. They excessively accidental that erstwhile they arrived the jobs seemed non-existent and judge that they were hired nether mendacious pretences.

When the quality broke astir maltreatment allegations against Al Fayed, memories that Sheenagh had tried to hide for 47 years resurfaced. She has waived her close to anonymity to stock her story.

“I was proceeding dates but it was earlier that. I was earlier that,” she told the BBC. She started to wonder: “Was I the start?”

Sheenagh was 25 and moving successful a slope successful Dubai erstwhile she archetypal met Al Fayed, aft relocating determination for her husband’s operation job.

She says his visits arsenic a lawsuit became much regular and helium started to enquire astir her idiosyncratic beingness and vocation history, earlier offering a gathering astir a imaginable occupation with him.

As she sat connected the different broadside of the table to him, successful his bureau down the road, Sheenagh says helium started to locomotion astir and came up down her.

“As I turned the hands came implicit my shoulders. His hands were everywhere,” she says.

Sheenagh says Al Fayed sexually assaulted her and erstwhile she tried to permission blocked the door.

She says she slapped him and yet managed to get past him, but that helium told her: “You whitethorn travel to regret that.”

Sheenagh says Al Fayed past continually stalked her, turning up astatine her workplace, the supermarket and her societal club, repeating his parting words.

“The menace was determination each the time,” she says.

“On 1 juncture helium said, ‘I warned you you’d regret it… person you noticed that I’m ever there?’”

Sheenagh says this happened astir 20 times and connected immoderate occasions helium would travel and grope her again.

“I kept praying that idiosyncratic other would really spot this happen, reasoning if idiosyncratic other sees it hap it's existent and idiosyncratic volition bash something,” she adds.

She says helium had an atrocious clasp implicit her, until helium seemed to disappear. Later, she recovered retired helium had near Dubai and she felt similar she could respire again.

It was lone successful 2015, erstwhile her precocious ex-husband’s wellness started to deteriorate that she yet told him what happened.

“I told him due to the fact that I knew helium was getting towards the extremity of his life. And I felt helium needed to know. Because it was the lone concealed that I'd ever kept from him.”

Sheenagh says what happened makes her aggravated now, and her biggest regret is not coming guardant sooner earlier Al Fayed died.

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