Princess Diana's Friend and Confidant Accused of Rape

Princess Diana's friend Mohamed Al-Fayed, who was also the father of her last boyfriend, Dodi, has been posthumously accused of rape by five former employees at his luxury London department store, Harrods. The Egyptian businessman, who died last year aged 94, is also accused of sexual assault by many more women, according to a new BBC documentary. Dodi Al-Fayed started dating Diana in July 1997 after they holidayed together, along with Princes William and Harry, on his father's yacht in St.

Tropez. They died together the following month in a car crash as they were being driven—pursued by paparazzi—from one of Mohamed's properties in Paris, the Ritz hotel. Al-Fayed devoted much of the rest of his life to trying to prove Diana and Dodi were murdered on the orders of the British Establishment, claiming they had become engaged and the royals could not countenance the mother of a future King William marrying a Muslim.

The BBC film, Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods, says the assaults occurred between 1984 and 2010 when he was the owner of the prestigious London store...

. Tom Sykes.