Mohamed Al-Fayed | |
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محمد الفايد | |
 Al-Fayed in 2011 | |
| Born | 27 January 1929 Alexandria, Egypt |
| Died | 30 August 2023 (aged 94) London, England |
| Burial place | Barrow Green Court |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 5, including Dodi and Omar |
Mohamed Abdel Moneim Al-Fayed[a] (/ælˈfaɪ.ɛd/; 27 January 1929 – 30 August 2023) was an Egyptian businessman whose residence and primary business interests were in the United Kingdom from the mid-1960s. His business interests included ownership of the Hôtel Ritz Paris, Harrods department store and Fulham Football Club. At the time of his death in 2023, Forbes estimated his wealth at US$2 billion.[1]
Fayed was married to Samira Khashoggi from 1954 to 1956. They had a son, Dodi, who was in a romantic relationship with Diana, Princess of Wales, when they both died in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Fayed falsely claimed that the crash was a result of a conspiracy, including that the crash was orchestrated by MI6 on the instructions of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In 2011, Fayed financially supported an unreleased documentary film Unlawful Killing, that presented his version of events.
From 1995 onwards, Fayed was the subject of media scrutiny and investigations into allegations of sexual harassment and assault. Early media scrutiny of sexual misconduct allegations against Al-Fayed was curtailed by his frequent threats of litigation. He developed a reputation for spending large sums on litigation against media outlets reporting on sexual assault allegations against him. In 2024 he became the subject of multiple posthumous accusations of rape, with over 200 women making complaints of illegal activity by September of that year.
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- ^ "The World's Celebrities". Forbes. Archived from the original on 8 August 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2023.