BREAKING NEWS 'Mohamed Al-Fayed was a monster': Harrods tycoon's 'vast web of abuse' laid bare as lawyers liken 'horrific' rape allegations to Jimmy Savile and Jeffrey Epstein scandals By Francine Wolfisz and Tom Cotterill Published: 05:33 EDT, 20 September 2024 | Updated: 05:57 EDT, 20 September 2024 e-mail 81 View comments Lawyers representing the former Harrods employees who claim they were raped and sexually assaulted by late billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed have described him as 'a monster' as they laid bare today his 'vast web of abuse'. It comes as multiple women came forward to claim the late Egyptian businessman sexually abused them in the Knightsbridge store and at his luxury properties in the UK and abroad. So horrific was the alleged abuse suffered at the hands of Al Fayed, lawyers representing his victims have compared him to sexual predators Jimmy Savile and Jeffrey Epstein .
Harrods was plagued by a 'toxic' culture under Al Fayed's time in charge, as the wealthy businessman 'preyed upon...
his own employees for his own sexual gratification'. Barrister Bruce Drummond told a press conference: ' This is one of the worse cases of sexual exploitation that I and perhaps the world has ever seen. 'It was horrific, just horrific.
It's horrific because of the acts carried out on these women and girls. 'It was horrific because it was the system that procured them, enabling the abuse of these young women and its horrific, because the effect this sexual abuse and of Harrods' in.