Mohamed Al Fayed’s victims ‘hunting for his mysterious Ghislaine Maxwell-style fixer’ who stopped attacker being caught
MOHAMED Al Fayed’s victims are ‘hunting for his Ghislaine Maxwell-style fixer’ who protected the sex attacker.
The late Harrods tycoon allegedly had a ‘fixer’ who would would seek out young victims for the predator.
It comes as more than 150 women bravely came forward to tell of how Fayed sexually abused them since the BBC2 documentary Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods exposed him as a serial sex attacker.
Bruce Drummond, a barrister for some of the compensation claims against Harrods, said: “This is the worst case of corporate sexual exploitation of young women I have ever seen, and I think probably the world has ever seen.”
As reported by the MailOnline, the monster allegedly had a Ghislaine Maxwell-style assistant to help him.
Maxwell, the former partner of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is currently carrying out a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted of child sex trafficking in 2021.
Asked by GMB host Richard Madeley, Mr Drummond acknowledged reports of a “fixer” and said he would be trying to find out more about Fayed’s “modus operandi”.
Meanwhile, Fayed’s “fixer” has been described as a blonde woman who donned designer clothes and drove a Porshe.
A teenager who alleged to meet her claimed the helper would show off her money before asking if they wanted to meet her wealthy friend.
The woman was working as a senior executive at Harrods at the time, it was claimed.
She would hang around in wealthy areas of London and entice young women out for drinks at expensive venues before making twisted promises to help them with work.
Allegedly the woman took them to vile Fayed’s penthouse as if she was delivering them to the predator on a silver plater.
The source said the ‘fixer’ was proud of herself for bringing him a different victim “every couple of months”.
However, the woman was not spoken of in the BBC documentary that revealed how Fayed abused girls and young women for over three decades.
A student, who was 19 at the time, claimed she met her in 2013.
She told the MailOnline: “She told me all about her life and her fiancé. I wasn’t sure why we were gossiping like we were best friends when we were so different in age.
“Then she just stood up and said she wanted to go and see him so we drove through Knightsbridge. I remember arriving at 60 Park Lane and pulling into this garage.
“It was like alarm bells going off in my head because suddenly I was trapped.”
The former student claimed Fayed tried to have sex with her, but she declined and managed to leave unharmed.
However, he gave her £300 in cash with his number and allegedly told her “call me when you get randy”.
Mohamed Fayed stable hand reveals how sex predator got teen girls to trot past him
By Stephen Moyes
A STABLE hand who worked for Mohamed Fayed has told how the sexual predator got teenage workers to trot past with his horses so he could ogle them.
The woman — just 15 at the time in 1987 — was one of a team employed to look after the Harrods boss’s nags and said he “got off” on humiliating staff and leaving them fearing for their jobs.
She revealed he tried to get her to visit him in London — and she had to make up having a boyfriend to ward off his advances.
Recalling her time working for him, she said: “He was so creepy. He’d sit in a marquee in front of his lawn and bark at us to jog by him with his horses so he could see our young bodies moving up and down.
“He’d like to watch us in our Harrods tops and jodhpurs.”
The woman said the Egyptian billionaire, who died last year aged 94, went around his Barrow Green Estate in Surrey offering up cash to girls he liked.
She said: “People were scared of losing their jobs and of upsetting him — and he got off on that.
“Workers were on tenterhooks but he feared no repercussions and was god of his domain.”
The woman said some girls who were lured to work for him in London with the promises of success and money would then go on to become victims.
Of her own close call, she said: “He knew how young I was but would still ask me to go to London and visit him when he wouldn’t have his family around him.
“I pretended that I had a boyfriend to get out of it.”
The woman went on: “His security, all ex-military police, knew exactly what he was like but we were just told to go along with it and do whatever he said. He was sick and didn’t fear any comebacks.”
When the teenager told the ‘fixer’ about her nightmare ordeal, the woman is claimed to have said “it’s not that bad, it won’t take that long and after he will give you whatever you want”.
Another source claimed the woman had made a name for herself taking Harrods staff to Fayed’s properties in exchange for gifts and money.
Meanwhile, KC Dean Armstrong, who is representing 37 victims, said the case “combines some of the most horrific elements” of those including Jimmy Savile, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein.
“There are clear and obvious reasons why [victims did not come forward before Al Fayed’s death]. The sheer terror and the sheer machinery is a good expression of how he controlled these poor women,” he said in an interview on Good Morning Britain.
Richard Madeley highlighted evidence that claimed security guards and subordinates working at Harrods were involved.
The host asked if there was any possibility these people could be brought to justice.
“Certainly as part of our evidence gathering exercise we are looking at every single angle of this. Obviously we are involved in a civil claim and we’re concentrating on Harrods and the particular machinery I’ve talked about,” said KC Armstrong.
“The ability to facilitate the sexual abuse that these women suffered. If as a result of our enquiries the information is of assistance to the police and the CPS then of course we would be delighted to share.
“We must remember there have been serious failings, there was a 15-year-old in 2008 complaining that a man in his late 70s had assaulted her, that file was passed to the CPS and apparently there was no realistic possibility of a conviction.
“We are doing everything we can to seek justice for these women, to give them a voice free from terror, that they absolutely deserve.
“And so if there are people who are collateral to that, who have clearly been involved, because this man couldn’t put this in place without the assistance of others, I am absolutely committed to getting to the bottom of it.
“The modus operandi is exactly the same, the point of selection, finding women who were of a particular appearance and age and then the intrusive medical examinations.”
The Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed it twice failed to charge Fayed.
The first was in 2009 when PM Sir Keir Starmer was director of public prosecutions and again in 2015 under Dame Alison Saunders.
A spokeswoman said: “To bring a prosecution, the CPS must be confident there is a realistic prospect of conviction. In each instance, our prosecutors looked carefully at the evidence and concluded this was not the case.”
Also bravely talking from the GMB sofa was, Gemma, a former personal assistant to Al Fayed, who said she was raped at Villa Windsor.
She said: “I didn’t think the extent of what happened to me had happened to others. It was such a secret place to work.
“I knew others were going through harassment and I knew there were issues, but I didn’t know to the extent of my attack had happened to others.
“I’ve shared what I have on the doc, it’s a difficult subject, I struggle still to talk about.
“It’s getting easier, and with these people to support me it’s certainly getting easier.”
Gemma claimed Fayed’s “lawyers, security team” would threaten her by telling her they knew where her family lived.
She said she still feels the fear now, and added: “Nine years after my attack I was contacted and reminded not to speak, and that I would be sued and people knew where I worked. It was terrifying.”
Harrods said in a statement: “We are utterly appalled by the allegations of abuse perpetrated by Mohamed Al Fayed. These were the actions of an individual who was intent on abusing his power wherever he operated and we condemn them in the strongest terms.
“We also acknowledge that during this time as a business we failed our employees who were his victims and for this we sincerely apologise.
“The Harrods of today is a very different organisation to the one owned and controlled by Al Fayed between 1985 and 2010, it is one that seeks to put the welfare of our employees at the heart of everything we do.”