Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods (2024) Movie Script

This programme contains scenes which
some viewers may find upsetting,
....deals with Sexual Abuse,
and contains some strong language
Yeah, I went back to Harrods
about a year ago.
Probably the first time
since I left.
And I knew if I could walk through
and come out the other side,
...I'd be in a good place
to be talking to you.
When I walked through the doors to
start my job there, I was excited.
At no point in time
did I ever anticipate...
...being on the receiving end
of an attempted rape.
I joined Harrods because
I wanted to be a buyer,
...and I ended up working
for an absolute monster.
I think he damaged me in some way.
He's just left a scar.
NEWS REPORT: The billionaire
businessman Mohamed Al Fayed,
...who went from selling soft drinks
in Egypt to owning Harrods...
...and the Paris Ritz,
has died at the age of 94.
The Egyptian businessman
Mohamed Al Fayed was best known...
...for his links to the
British royal family.
His son Dodi was killed alongside
Princess Diana in Paris in 1997.
He was the self-made billionaire...
...determined to get
into British society,
...and became known to
a new generation...
...through the most recent
series of The Crown.
Diana.
Mohamed.
But you must call me Mou Mou.
To be honest, it's made me
really hot and bothered.
I think he comes across pleasant.
We all know he's not.
It just makes him look sort
of funny and gregarious, and...
..and he could turn that on
but it's all... He wasn't.
He was.....vile.
And that makes me angry.
People shouldn't remember him
like that.
It's not how he was.
I've been waiting for 25 years...
...for someone to believe me,
...to talk about the
awful things that he did.
I have spoken up about my time
there on numerous occasions.
Most of the time
it has been shut down.
He tried to rape me more than once.
And he pushed me in
and onto the bed,
...so that I couldn't move,
and held both my wrists.
I was kind of face down on the bed
and he pressed himself on me.
Get him off! Get him off!
Get him off!
I was a child when this happened.
You know, he was 79, nearly 80,
...and I was 15.
I think Mohamed Al Fayed
is a rapist.
I think he's a serial rapist.
I made it obviousmthat I didn't
want that to happen.
Just going somewhere else
in my head.
Mohamed Al Fayed should be on trial,
but he's not.
He's in the ground being eulogised...
...by the most popular television
programme out there.
I knew...
...and I think if I know,
everybody knew.
Anyone who says they didn't,
they're lying. I'm sorry.
The spider's web of corruption
and abuse in this company...
...was unbelievable and very dark.
Without question,
Harrods failed these ladies.
The lawyers organised
for a shredding truck...
...to come to my lawyer's office,
where we placed everything in.
It was shredded in front of us,
including tapes I had of him.
I do think it's important
that we stand up...
...and expose actually
who Mohamed Al Fayed was.
And I think it's time.
ARCHIVE: Harrods, everything,
London.
The most interesting and beautiful
store in the whole of Britain...
...and one of the
most famous in the world.
Harrods is the best store
in the world.
When I grew up, you were always told
that you could buy anything...
...at Harrods, weren't you?
You could buy an elephant
or you could buy, you know,
...a piece of cheese.
ARCHIVE: If you could
understand such a place,
...you would understand a lot
about the nature of Britain.
The sort of people who come
to shop at this temple...
...are from no single
social class.
They are united by money
rather than by bloodline.
Harrods was, I think, for a lot
of people, a world of possibilities.
Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.
You'd walk in and just be amazed.
ARCHIVE: They delight
in the suggestion...
...that they are getting the best.
They are usually female.
I just loved the architecture.
I loved the ground floor,
the food halls.
I loved it.
I lived, breathed, worked Harrods.
It had deep, deep history,
...and so when I first joined,
that was one of the reasons...
I wanted to be part
of the organisation.
It had a huge reputation.
Harrods is the greatest
store in the world.
And...
..it's not only a business
to run, but it's history.
It was another world,
but it was a world that, you know,
...we were part of.
We were family.
My name is Sam.
I started working in Harrods
in September 1986.
I was there for seven years.
I worked in the toy department.
The toy department was exactly
like a Wonka factory.
You had everything...
...doll's houses,
petrol driven cars.
The car would have
to match Daddy's.
There was one occasion
I was late for work,
...and this child had just come
hurtling towards me...
...in this tractor trailer...
...and ran over my foot.
I heard, "William, come back!
William!"
And I just thought,
"Oh, that was Prince...
"..that was Prince William
running over my toe."
Britain's most famous department
store is no longer British.
Harrods, one of London's
most famous landmarks,
has been bought by three millionaire
Egyptian brothers...
...the Al Fayed family.
What did I know of
Mohamed Al Fayed?
I think everyone knew he was
obviously a very wealthy man.
I think he emerged on the scene
sort of in the mid '80s...
...as quite a powerful businessman.
I knew that he was
the owner of Harrods...
...and that he had acquired it
in a rather dubious way,
...which was a bit of
a scandal at the time.
NEWS REPORT: The report says that
Mohamed Fayed and his brother...
...were dishonest
when they bought Harrods...
...and the House of
Fraser Group in 1985.
They misled the Secretary of State
for Trade and others...
...by saying they had extensive
international business interests.
He was basically a crook.
Let's be honest about it.
He was a crook and a fraudster in
terms of how he acquired the money...
...to even buy Harrods.
I think he - naively, perhaps...
...he thought, "Ah, if
I own Harrods, they'll embrace me."
I own the shop and no-one ever will
be able to take it away from me.
Only God.
The royal family, the establishment,
"I'll get my passport,
"I'll end up in the House of Lords."
Mohamed, at that time,
I thought he was kind,
charitable...
Lovely seeing you.
..and I thought that he had been
misrepresented.
He was very generous with children.
He would invite families
into the toy department
and he would shower them
with lavish gifts.
NEWS REPORT: Mr Al Fayed
has said that he'll pay
the half a million pounds
it will cost
to relocate the specialist bone
marrow transplant unit,
where the desperately ill
child was being treated.
Such a kind, generous man. I know he
does a lot of things for charity.
Stand up, Goldie!
Five, four, three,
two, one.
The sale is open!
So many people would come up
to open the Harrods stores.
His public persona was so gregarious
and so, like, out there,
and he would invite all the stars -
Tony Curtis, Dame Edna Everage...
The most beautiful shop
in the world.
Pele, Muhammad Ali, Demi Moore,
Bruce Willis, Sultan of Brunei.
Most of the Spice Girls,
all except Mel C.
Didn't get her for the tick box.
Michael Jackson. We closed
the store for Michael Jackson.
If he knew there was a VIP actor
or someone in the public limelight
in the store, he'd zoom down
and he would buy them presents,
just be all over them.
Definitely courted notoriety
and wanted to befriend anyone
that was in the public eye.
When I started at Harrods,
I was 19, turning 20.
The very first time I met Mohamed,
I remember exactly where I was.
I was standing in Way In womenswear
tidying up a rack of clothes,
and I could see him walking towards
me with his bodyguards.
He came up to me and said,
"Hello. How are you doing?"
You know, and I was like, "Hi".
Just a little bit nervous
and just sort of a bit like, "Ooh!"
Partly sort of, you know, flattered,
in a way, that he'd come up to me.
Why, why me?
And, you know, sort of,
"Ooh, he's the chairman," you know.
From working in Way In to working
in the chairman's office,
there were no next steps,
it was super fast.
He asked me to go up to meet him
in the chairman's office,
and when I went to see him,
he asked me what I wanted to do.
I said I wanted to be a buyer.
That's why I was on
the training course.
And he was going,
"Oh, I can make that happen for you.
"I can make anything happen for you.
Come and work for me.
"Come and work at the
chairman's office."
So, I mean, it's...
What can you say?
"Yes, yes. Great. Thank you."
Next day, I was working for him
in the chairman's office.
The offices there were quite plush.
Al Fayed had a very big office,
and along the hallway
were all the management offices
for his top brass.
It seemed quite glamorous,
to begin with.
Before I started working at Harrods,
I was introduced to his top PA.
She looked through my CV.
Al Fayed came in.
He gave her the nod,
and I was offered the job.
But before I took the job,
I needed to have a medical.
Everyone had them, and it's just
an extra perk of the job,
I was told.
We were told to go
for a medical check-up
with Dr Ann Coxon in Harley Street.
I was told that it was because
his son Dodi
had a low immune system,
and so everybody in the office
needed to be checked.
Ahead of time, nobody said,
"By the way, when you come in
for your medical,
"you're going to be given
an internal sexual health test,"
because I think I would have had
time to worry about that.
It just happened.
They told me as I was there.
This is from a doctor, Wendy Snell,
who was the Harrods doctor
at the time.
It says, "The gynaecological swabs,
including chlamydia,
"also showed no signs of infection,
a very reassuring finding."
So I don't know who
that's reassuring for.
At one point during the medical,
the doctor, Wendy Snell,
who was doing my examinations,
she did my smear test,
and then she went on
to check my ovaries.
And I just remember the doctor,
you know,
saying how wonderful he was,
and didn't he look
after his employees so well?
And, mm...
My results were actually sent
directly to the chairman,
so quickly that by the time
I'd got back to my desk,
he knew the results of my tests.
You know, things
should be confidential
between a patient and a doctor.
She certainly did
not conform to that.
There is no benefit to anybody
in knowing what my sexual health is,
unless you're planning
to sleep with somebody,
which I find quite chilling now.
So, when Mohamed first asked me
to his office,
I was sort of nervous
and excited at the same time.
But when I first arrived,
he seemed super friendly,
sweet and interested, like a nice...
..man.
Initially in that first meeting,
he didn't say it,
but very soon after he said,
"Just call me Papa, Papa."
He said, "Come to Papa.
"You only trust me.
I'll look after you."
I thought it was odd that he said
Papa, because that was weird.
But then I thought maybe
he did mean it
in a sort of fatherly way,
initially.
Only a few days after I'd been
working there, he would sort of...
..bear hug me to start with
and greet me with a hug and...
And that was very early on.
And that that made me feel
a bit weird, you know.
But then I thought, oh,
he's being nice and protective,
like a sort of, you know,
fatherly figure.
But then it just...
SHE GROANS
..the hugs became more, well,
sort of...
..uncomfortable and, erm,
yeah, I didn't feel right.
And then, I mean, the hugs,
he'd just try and kiss me,
and I didn't want to be kissed.
It's like one minute, you know,
he's saying he's going to protect me
and look after me and he's like...
like a dad or a father,
and then the next minute
he's trying to kiss me,
and I don't know what to think.
I remember seeing an ad in the paper
for temporary shop floor assistants
at Harrods,
met with the recruiter there,
and then, like a couple
minutes later,
Mohamed Al Fayed
walked into the room,
basically looked me
up and down and said,
yeah, when can I start?
He asked me to go along
to his private residence
at Park Lane the following day
to set things up.
60 Park Lane is a big block
of apartments
situated right next door
to the Dorchester Hotel,
and I think he pretty much
owns the whole block,
if I'm not mistaken.
There are lots of flats in there,
as well as his private quarters.
I first noticed that Mohamed
had this sort of modus operandi
every day.
He would call one senior assistant
and ask which girls
were working that day.
Then one of us would be summoned
to his office.
So, do you remember the first time
that you were sent up to
Al Fayed's office?
I do remember the first time.
It took a while to be asked
to go up there.
I think when we were
on our back row,
we were wondering why everyone else
was going up and we weren't.
I remember that first time
he said, "What are you doing
for the weekend?"
And I remember saying, oh,
I was going home to my parents.
And he presented me with a 50 note.
"Here's some money to go towards
"taking something home
for your parents."
I remember feeling like, "Hmm."
You know, "Why are you giving
me some money?"
And then I remember him
just doing this.
SHE GROANS
"So, just, just say
thank you to me."
So I was encouraged to give him
a kiss on the cheek.
One of those, after a while, became,
you know, he would...
..kind of grab your face
and he would push it to his lips.
And it was just, you know,
there was nothing you could do.
He had his hands in, you know,
on your face.
My experience was pretty
much identical.
And it's something that we buried
for 30 years.
My one time of going into
his private sitting room
was...was essentially my last day.
And, um, it didn't take long for him
to come towards me.
Essentially he just...
I was sitting on the sofa
and he just pushed himself
right on top of me.
I just pushed him.
You know, you...
This happened so quickly,
and I pushed him and I ran out.
I trusted him,
because he had five children.
Mm. So it wasn't the first
thing to cross my mind,
what the sort of long game was,
as far as he was concerned.
He was basically grooming us,
wasn't he? Yeah.
I felt deeply ashamed
about what happened at Harrods
and my life and my time
with Mohamed.
From the day it happened to now,
I haven't really ever spoken
in any detail about my experiences.
I was... Literally just turned
16 when I joined Harrods.
Quite often we'd end up working
till seven or eight,
nine o'clock in the evening.
So, quite early on, he asked whether
or not I wanted to have use
of an apartment, an apartment
block in Park Lane,
and would I like use of that,
and it was very much sold to me at
the time as, we work late together,
if you don't want to go home,
you can just grab a cab
and you'll be there safely
and you have nothing to worry about.
So I agreed that that would be
a good idea.
That night, he asked that when
I'd seen the apartment,
would I join him and have a drink.
I was taken up there by a member
of the security team,
and I remember going into the room,
I was a bit surprised
that it was a lounge area,
and then really surprised
when Mohamed came out
in a dressing gown
and what appeared like nothing
underneath the dressing gown,
from what I could gather.
He then poured two glasses
of champagne
and said, "We have to celebrate.
"This is a good..." You know,
"This is a good day."
He called me into his office,
probably around 9:30 that night,
on the pretext that he wanted
to show me a painting
that he had recently acquired.
As we're going upstairs into his
private quarters,
I can hear this little
clicking noise.
And then I realise he has a little
device in his hand
that's actually
locking the doors behind.
It felt like... "Am I going
to be trapped in here?"
He asked me at Harrods
if I would meet him after work,
if I'd come to Park Lane.
You can go up and you go in the lift
and you see the security around,
so you feel like you're
obviously being watched.
It's really intimidating.
It's a lot of security.
Why is there so much security?
And he came back dressed in
just a silk dressing gown.
He basically grabbed me
into a slow dance.
He was holding me really tightly...
into, like, a clench.
He grabbed my right arm
and he just placed
it aggressively over his...
I could feel he had an erection.
When he started to touch me,
I think the first thing I said
was, "What are you doing?"
I genuinely felt confused
by what was going on.
I remember saying to him,
"You've asked me
"to look at you as a father figure.
"I can't do that
if you're behaving like this.
"This is not how a father
would behave to a daughter."
He pushed me back on the sofa
and he climbed on top of me.
Undid my top, or pulled my top,
put his hand inside my bra.
He was clearly aroused.
Put his hand inside my underwear.
Put his hand inside me.
And I remember just thinking,
"Whatever's going to happen,
just get it over with,"
and I just kept saying to him,
"Please don't do this.
"I can't do this."
He started to sort of get closer
and closer and closer,
and he's pushed himself onto me
and pushed me down on the sofa.
You know, putting his hands down
my top and up my skirt,
and he was getting heavier
and heavier and heavier.
I was scared.
And he just pushed himself
on top of me, but I'm strong
and I started kicking him,
and I kicked him, and I kicked him,
and I kicked him, and I kicked him
off, and I kicked him really hard.
I thought, "He's going to rape me."
Definitely thought
he was going to rape me.
His trousers coming down.
Get him off! Get him off!
Get him off! GET HIM OFF!
I can't...from that day to this,
work out what stopped him.
It would have been really obvious
to whoever took me back
to my apartment that something
had happened in there.
I was dishevelled, I was crying.
I was clearly shocked.
I don't think I slept a wink
that night.
I joined Harrods to be a buyer
and it was so far, everything,
my whole life was so far
from that now.
It was just a living nightmare.
He used to sort of make you feel
like he really cared
for your safety.
I was...19.
He called me and said,
"Yeah, you finish late tonight?
"How are you getting home?"
I said, "I'll just take a cab."
He said, "No, it's dangerous.
"You know, you want to stay
in one of the apartments?"
So I said yes.
Then the phone went
and it was Mohamed saying,
"Yeah, you all right?
What are you doing?
"You like the apartment?"
And he said,
"I've got something to show you.
"Will you come up?"
And I found myself in his apartment
and...he asked me to sit on the bed.
And his hand's on my leg.
He was kind of laughing, joking.
But he would get firmer in his grip
and it's very obvious what he wants.
I'm trying to get up.
I made it obvious that I didn't want
THAT to happen.
I did not give consent.
I just wanted it to be over.
I just remember feeling...
his body on me...
..the weight of him.
Just hearing him
make these noises...
and then...just going
somewhere else in my head.
He raped me.
When he was done, he said,
"Go and wash."
You blame yourself.
You really blame yourself.
You're there to do a job,
but that's your boss
standing there in front of you
in a dressing gown.
And even when you're trying to get
out of the situation,
I'm trying not to offend him.
I think it was 2018 when I first
found out about this from Sophia.
I'm a TV producer by profession
and I couldn't let it go.
I just had to just get
to the bottom of it.
I've spoken to certainly dozens,
but certainly I know to be of
affected, and I want to speak to,
we're into triple figures.
Things have kind of seeped out
before about him,
but those allegations have been on
more the mild side
of things - sexual harassment.
But I've spoken to at least four
women who have categorically told me
they were raped by Fayed.
He was a complete monster.
And I just knew I needed
to get that out there.
I can't believe the web, how big
it's getting, how large it is.
It's horrifying.
He had this dome around him
of either security
or his staff members.
Not all of these knew what was
going on, but many did.
Why they are helpful to talk to me
is because they can help corroborate
the culture of fear there
at the time,
or what the routines were,
how Fayed operated.
I joined the recruitment department,
and then was promoted
to become personnel manager for...
..two areas of the store.
From time to time, I would get
a call from one of, um...
..Mr Mohamed's secretaries,
asking me
about a specific sales assistant
that Mr Mohamed had seen
while he was walking the store,
and could I please either interview
them for a job in his office
or he would like to interview them.
And in the early days,
I think I was naive enough
to think that he was giving them
a career opportunity,
but quite quickly I knew
differently.
If there were requests that came
along like that, I would...
I would pretend that I hadn't
been able to find them.
I thought that might just deflect
his attention away from them.
My name's Tony.
I worked in Harrods for ten years.
I worked at the toy department,
which was fantastic,
for about a year, and then I was
moved to the Egyptian Hall
to take a department manager
position.
The Egyptian Hall was a
sort of shrine to Egypt
within the department store.
On the lower ground floor,
you've got a mini sphinx,
and all along the walls
you've got Egyptian-style columns
and architecture.
INTERVIEWER: There seems to be
a slight resemblance
between the Sphinx on the wall
and yourself.
Yeah, it happened that...
I don't know how,
but it happened that
I look like the Sphinx.
The daily walk, he would either
start or finish
at the Egyptian Hall
with the pipers.
The bagpipers were security
guards in the Egyptian Hall,
so I spent a lot of time,
you know,
talking to the security guards
there, yeah.
They got more gossip from the
close-knit security.
They spent the whole time with him
and they sort of would pass
on little stories
about what he was up to.
They would say things like,
you know, there was groping,
nonconsensual touching.
I guess molestation perhaps
would be hinted at.
It was well known, everybody knew
about it, and it was a joke,
and it was laughed about.
It was like, "Oh, you know, he's...
"You know, this person's going to be
a manager of..."
Or, you know, "..a manager in five
minutes because she's gone up to...
"..she's gone up to Al Fayed's
office. Ha-ha-ha!"
This sort of thing. It was...
It was very jokey.
Yeah, looking back on it now,
it's, it's pretty repellent,
honestly, actually.
And I was part of that,
I must admit.
It was a horrible,
horrible nightmare.
It was really hard to get out of it.
I can't explain how it ground me
down every single day.
I couldn't leave, I didn't have
a home to go back to,
I had to pay rent and I knew
I had to go through this
and I didn't want to.
It was horrible.
And I... And my head was scrambled.
I'd gone at the age of 16
and ended up working
for Mohamed relatively quickly.
So all of those experiences, to me,
after four years, became my norm.
And I think that's
one of the hardest things,
thinking back to that whole
experience now,
is that we all stood and watched
each other walk through that door,
thinking..."You poor girl,
it's you today,"
and feeling utterly powerless
to stop it.
I have exactly the same feeling
now of regret,
frustration about Al Fayed
that I had about Jimmy Savile.
The late '80s were a fascinating
time for journalism
and, of course, the Royal family
were the focus
of huge, huge attention,
particularly Princess Diana.
And colourful characters like
Al Fayed were also fascinating.
When I was at the News Of The World,
this would be about 1986-87,
there had been rumours about him
molesting or harassing
young female employees.
We did hear about a girl who was,
I think, about 18 at the time,
who he'd...he'd groped.
We did manage to speak to her,
but she was basically terrified.
She made it plain that this wasn't
unusual with Al Fayed,
but, you know, she certainly
wasn't going to start
giving interviews about it
and she was terrified of the
repercussions
if she did, and that she felt
that no-one else would, either,
that his power and, you know,
and intimidatory qualities
meant that no-one
would actually speak out.
There was most definitely a culture
of fear across the whole store,
from the lowliest of the low
to the most senior person.
You're on the shop floor
and these, I think, five or six
burly security guards
start barging through
your department.
The majority of the security guards
were all either special forces
or army or ex-police.
It was well known in Harrods
that the phones might be tapped.
I was told, "Sit there,
and even if there's no work,
"kind of look like you're working,
"because in that flowerpot across
the hallway, there's a camera."
That's why none of the other girls,
we couldn't talk to each other
properly about it,
because we all thought we were
being bugged.
There's this one particular evening
where I'd gone back
to the apartment.
I laid on the bed.
The phone rang. I picked it up.
He just went, "Yeah,
why are you lying like that?"
"And I was naked at the time."
My whole body turned cold
because what I then realised
was clearly there was some sort
of surveillance
actually in the apartment itself.
The abuse against women, I mean,
I was aware of it when I was on
the shop floor. I knew.
And what I think, if I know,
everybody knew.
Anyone who says they didn't,
they're lying, I'm sorry.
They're lying.
It wasn't even a secret.
It was known around
the whole company.
Again, security knew.
And I would say that they should
come forward and speak up.
I can understand why some colleagues
I have, or people that I work with
who don't want to speak up
about these events.
They are afraid of, if they don't
show total loyalty to a principal
then it's going to affect
their future employment.
But they all know deep down
in their hearts
that what occurred
was tragic for those victims.
I did notice on many occasions
when we arrive, say, for instance,
perfume departments, he would get
the manager, before he arrived,
to line up the girls,
four or five young ladies.
They were literally on parade
and he went to each individual one
as if to, you know, size them up.
As time went on,
our senior managers would say,
"You are aware that Mr Al Fayed
doesn't want you speaking
"to any female members of staff.
But we did know that certain things
were happening
to certain female employees
at Harrods and Park Lane.
We have a control room in the
basement with security cameras,
but they only observed the corridors
up to Mr Al Fayed's
private residence doors,
so we would only see the girls
going in to the door
and then close the door behind him.
And then in the morning we'd see
them depart, or even after an hour.
Some were wearing the Harrods
uniform still.
I did question it.
I said that's strange behaviour,
but they said, "Well, if you're not
happy with that,
"you know where the door is."
I worked for Mohamed Al Fayed
from the mid '80s to the early '90s.
Six years in total.
You would normally, for a principal,
if you're there, your job
is to protect his life.
I can say for myself
and a few others
that you wouldn't stand in front
of a gun for Al Fayed.
If he was seeing girls,
it would be in Park Lane.
One instance, two girls
came into the building
and we were told to send them up
to the top floor,
and then later on they came down
and came out of the lift,
and one of them was really upset
and crying,
and I took her outside and said,
"What's the matter?"
She said, "It's horrible, horrible.
"We went into his apartment
and he disappeared,
"then came out in his dressing gown
and pyjamas
"and wanted us to sit on his lap
and everything else."
And the poor kid was in bits.
HE EXHALES
Now you would think, you know,
you want to smack him in the mouth.
But then you never saw it happen,
because it was in his personal
apartment.
So what could you do?
And who do you go to?
Him?
He had no doubt in his mind
that he was...
His advances were unwelcome
and nonconsensual.
There were tons of women
that would have had sex with him
because he was a very wealthy
and very powerful man.
Still he chose to pursue people
that he terrified.
And he came in the bathroom
and started to touch me.
He turned me round.
He pushed me against the wall
and his hands came round my throat.
Before, I'd always felt the worst
thing that could ever happen
was him raping me.
That day, I felt like the worst
thing that could happen
is that he could stop me breathing.
Once I started finding more and more
and more women,
they would tell me
what they went through.
It's not something you can
just leave.
Every waking minute,
I would think about it
and I wouldn't stop again
until Sophia woke up
in the middle of the night to come
and order me to go to bed.
What's been horrifying is the level
of prestigious institutions
that this abuse has taken place at.
We've got Harrods.
We've then got the Ritz Hotel,
which is the jewel of Paris.
Some of the worst horrors I've heard
have been over in France,
unfortunately.
Mohamed owned lots of properties,
many abroad.
He owned the Ritz in Paris
and the Villa Windsor
in Bois de Boulogne.
And he'd often go over there for
trips to visit his properties.
He asked me to come along.
I was, again, very nervous,
but you couldn't say no.
He wanted me to fly over to Paris
that evening,
go and interview some
of the chefs at the Paris Ritz.
When the plane landed,
I was tapped on the shoulder
and it was one of Mr Mohamed's
close security officers.
And I said,
"Well, where are we going?"
And they said, Mr Mohamed's
at the Ritz.
And we got to the Ritz
and the security officer
who wasn't driving
got out of the car, went inside
and was back within minutes
and said, "Mr Mohamed has left
for the day.
"He's at the house in the Bois."
The house in the Bois de Boulogne
was a house that Mohamed bought
and restored to its former glory.
This house, just outside Paris
in the Bois de Boulogne,
was to be the home of the
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
for nearly 20 years.
FAYED: This love story
will stay forever.
And by preserving this house...
..my dreams came true to preserve
as a mausoleum to this love story,
which I believe tremendously.
You would give up everything
for a woman? Absolutely.
Absolutely. Because again,
it's my life.
It's my happiness.
It's my pleasure.
And I want to live.
I want to enjoy life.
And you're romantic?
Absolutely. Of course.
Of course.
Villa Windsor is definitely
not a place of love.
It was a place of being scared
and terrified.
Seeing the Villa Windsor on
The Crown evoked so many memories.
When I saw the state
the villa was in,
I said, "Money is no object."
Restoring it will be my honour
and pleasure.
I don't want him to be seen
as some kind of hero.
A former King of England lived here.
It just takes me back
to when he took me there.
And they're not good memories.
I came in up the steps
into the hallway,
and I was taken into the salon,
and the door closed.
Mr Mohamed was there.
He asked me to come and sit
on the sofa with him.
I started to wonder when he was
going to have the conversation
with me about the interviews
the next day, and it didn't happen.
So I instigated that conversation,
and he kept deflecting me away
from that and saying,
"Don't worry about this.
"You will... You will stay
with me tonight."
And I stood up and said,
"I'm not staying."
Where he was standing was in quite
close proximity to the wall behind
that had a doorway that was open,
and he took my right wrist and he
pulled me through that doorway,
and it was a bedroom
and there was a bed,
and he pushed me in and onto the bed
and then put his right leg
over my hips so that I couldn't move
and held both my wrists.
And I was terrified.
This time I was even more scared,
because I wasn't at home,
I was in France,
I was in Villa Windsor,
and he'd come upstairs
into my room.
Um, I was absolutely terrified.
I was under the covers.
He was wearing his dressing gown,
undone like that,
got into bed with me and was trying
to kiss me and push himself on me
and I, again, I just...
I don't know how I did it.
I just kicked him off.
I kicked and kicked and kicked
and kicked and screamed -
and, again, I got him off,
and I was just...just terrified.
When Mohamed was assaulting me,
because of the force
of the situation...
..I believed he was attempting
to rape me.
The first thing that came into my
head to try and get away
was, "We can't do this
because I need to have a shower."
He released his grip.
I got out of the room
as quickly as I possibly could,
and I was shown into
a small bedroom.
I closed the door.
I immediately tried to see if there
was a lock and there was no lock.
And I got the chair and put
the chair under the door.
So I turned the shower on so it
sounded like I was showering
to sort of cover any noise
I might be making.
I put every item of clothing on
that I had
so that if I slept through the night
and he tried to come in,
it would take him a lot longer
to get to what he wanted.
Then...
..I might have a chance to get away.
I hadn't asked,
"Where am I staying?"
Because surely Harrods
would have booked us a hotel room
and made sure of our safety.
Not delivered us like
lambs to the slaughter
to Al Fayed's house.
You know, he threw himself
on top of me.
His hands were all over me.
And you know, I was wearing a dress.
He was very, very forceful.
I, thank God, reacted and kicked
him off,
ran down the hallway
into my room in sheer terror
because I just didn't know
what would happen, you know?
Then about a week later, I got
a letter in the post from Harrods
telling me that I had had
my employment terminated
because I didn't use the right
staff door.
Yeah.
Nothing to do with the sexual abuse.
Shortly after that, there was
an evening when my then boyfriend
and I had been out for a dinner.
We came round the corner,
heading back to our car,
and one of Mohamed's
close security guards
was just standing in the street
looking straight at me.
And I said, "Oh, hello.
What are you doing here?"
And he said, "Ah, that's the
question. What are YOU doing here?"
And I believed that because
I had said no to Mohamed,
they were just keeping tabs on me to
make sure I wasn't telling anybody,
which made me even more fearful.
What do you think those women
could have done in that situation
with a man that's very wealthy,
has a lot of security?
What could they do?
All they could do would be go
to the police, wouldn't it?
But nothing would happen
because he was too powerful.
Can you imagine being 22?
A, you've got to tell your parents
that you've been abused
by your boss.
B, you've then got to get someone
to go to the police with you.
Three, you're fighting one of the
most powerful men in the country.
Where's that going to go?
The spider's web of corruption
and abuse in this company
was unbelievable and very dark.
Any place of work has a duty
to ensure the safety
of its employees.
When you take that to
a classic place like Harrods,
without question, the company
failed these ladies.
That's why we step in,
because they just did nothing
to actually prevent this.
They did the opposite.
They enabled it.
We're one of a number of
representatives
that are acting for survivors
of this horrific case.
How are we? Very well.
This case has been quite
an eye-opener for me.
It really has, in many ways.
In terms of the severity? Yeah.
And also the, um, extent
of responsibility that I felt
with - we've got now
over 15 survivors
and it's growing every day.
If what these ladies say is right -
and we've no reason to dispute it -
then Fayed clearly was an absolute
menace to society.
He was a serial sex abuser.
A serial sex abuser.
First of all,
we're going towards a claim
for an unsafe system of work.
Yeah.
We are in possession of material
to suggest that the extent
of the knowledge of those who were
significant in Harrods
did rather make it, effectively,
at least an acquiescence
to what was going on.
It's very much all sides
coming together
of acquiescence in the abuse,
the selection process,
the actual acts themselves,
and then effectively the ability
of the arms, the tentacles,
to make sure that it's covered up.
One of the questions is,
why was nothing said at the time?
It limited opportunities.
They couldn't go to HR
because that was internal
and was controlled by the senior
figures at Harrods. Yeah, yeah.
Where do they go?
It's understandable that people
would think, "Well, there's nowhere
for me to go."
There's really only one area where
you do go if you seek redress...
And that's the press.
..and that's the press, to say,
"Actually, this is something very
badly wrong here."
I had quite a number of
conversations with Maureen Orth
and started to talk
about the safety in numbers thing.
This kind of, you're not alone.
So I agreed to give a statement,
but to do it anonymously.
You've got to remember,
the people that we work for,
they have secrets that a lot
of people don't know about,
and the only people that know
those secrets are a security team.
John Macnamara was head of security
at the time.
His background was with
the Metropolitan Police,
that he'd been a senior officer,
and that he was now in control
of all Mr Al Fayed's security
arrangements.
But he was a nasty piece of work,
you know,
would threaten people and things
and use his power as an ex-copper.
I know for a fact Macnamara
knocked on someone's door personally
and threatened a girl.
"ALICE": John Macnamara contacted me
before the article was published
at a point where I was living
at a different address,
different telephone number
and different work,
and I had no idea how he'd found me,
and said I wasn't to be involved
in that article.
But if I went against his advice
that just to be aware
that he knew where my parents lived.
It turned me cold.
And after I spoke to Maureen,
I've never spoken to anybody else
for fear of just what it
might bring.
Mohamed Al Fayed never influenced
anything that we published,
much as he sometimes tried to,
but Al Fayed cultivated
influential people,
made them generous offers
of free items from Harrods,
and he also tried
that on journalists.
But if it had come back
out in the mid '80s -
groping, propositioning - he would
never have got anywhere near
that he did get to the royal family.
Princess Diana would never
have entertained going on a holiday
with Dodi Fayed.
He would have been disgraced.
I think he would have had difficulty
holding on to Harrods
or even staying out of jail.
NEWS ARCHIVE: For British
royal watchers,
it has been another day of float
off the coast of Saint-Tropez.
Their focus,
Mohamed Al Fayed's villa,
where the Princess
and her sons are holiday guests.
This afternoon she boarded
a 150-foot cruiser,
also belonging to the Harrods boss,
to sail away from Saint-Tropez,
to slip away from the media glare.
Watching that clip of Saint-Tropez
brought back a lot of memories
of my two summers I spent there.
Say "Hi", boys.
I think it was a very good
replica villa that they found
for the location.
Your Royal Highness.
Mou Mou.
Yeah, it was a beautiful place,
for sure.
But, for me,
it had some bad memories.
Here I am in the grounds.
And this is an actual shot
of the bedroom I stayed in,
which was adjacent to the office.
Prior to going to Saint-Tropez,
I was told that I needed to go and
have another check up with Dr Coxon,
and when I got to the villa,
I could see that Mohamed,
he was absolutely livid.
He came up to me with a bottle
of Dettol disinfectant in his hand,
and his first words to me were,
"Who have you been fucking?"
I didn't know what he was
talking about.
"I got the medical report back
from Dr Coxon
"and it shows that you have,
you know, an STD."
He said, "You have a dirty pussy
and you're a fucking whore.
"You need to bathe in this."
He then handed me a packet of pills.
He said, "You need to take
these pills, one every night,
"to clear up your infection."
I certainly didn't take the pills,
and I certainly didn't put Dettol
in my bath.
And it wasn't until a few days later
when I called home to my mum,
who at the time was working
in a London hospital,
and I just asked her
sort of casually
if she knew what these pills were,
and she was like,
"Yeah, they're a major sedative,
tranquilliser-type drug."
A few nights later,
I was in my bedroom
and I could feel him sort of
rattling the door, trying to get in.
I thought, "Oh, my God,
he's going to come back
"and he's going to come in."
He's expecting
I've taken these pills.
He thinks I'm passed out and,
you know, do what he wants to me.
And sure enough, he came back.
I could hear the door jangling
again, trying to get in.
And I think that was definitely
the night that he attempted rape.
Certainly, I think that was
his intention.
NEWS ARCHIVE: After the
Princess's holiday
aboard Mohamed Al Fayed's yacht,
the media interest in the couple
became intense.
You must be pleased for your son.
It's his business.
Thank you very much.
I was the United Kingdom editor
of Vanity Fair in the '90s.
My role was to support everything
in the story.
I've never talked
about it before, no.
This is the stuff
got stranded with me.
And this is just a tiny
fraction of what we have.
And there were massive, masses,
amounts of interviews, statements,
affidavits, supporting evidence.
Within those affidavits,
there is evidence
of serial criminality.
Looking at them again, I really
think we had a very strong case.
I was approached by Vanity Fair
back in the 1990s.
They tracked me down, I think,
because whoever was on the door
at Park Lane when I left
must have seen the state I was in
and remembered me
or remembered my name.
That evening, I'd already talked to
him about the idea
of wanting to be an actress.
When I walked in, we sat down and he
started talking about how Dodi
was about to start producing
the prequel to Hook,
and he gave me the script
and he said,
"Read that passage from the script,
straight to camera,
"and then I'll send it on to Dodi."
In context, it was fine,
but out of context it was
"Take me, take me, please."
He comes round from behind
the camera and he grabs me
and he kisses me on the mouth
and I push him away.
And I do...
I sort of say, "What are you doing?"
He said, "Right,
if you won't sleep with me,
"I'm not helping you
with your acting career."
And I thought,
"Get out, I've got to get out."
I was able to get my things
and get out.
NEWS ARCHIVE: Since the start of
speculation about a new romance,
tabloid photographers have laid
siege to the Park Lane home
of Dodi Fayed.
Late last night,
the arrival of a car
similar to that owned
by the Princess of Wales
led to reports that the two
were sharing an intimate meal.
Frustratingly for the photographers,
there was no opportunity
to see the diners,
although their own activities
were constantly monitored
by security cameras which protect
this exclusive part of Mayfair.
So I thought this was
a big, big worry.
I thought he would almost certainly
use his security equipment,
his CCTV, his bugging equipment,
to record some part
of this relationship.
Fayed would just use her
like he used everybody.
I let a friend of hers know.
I'm not even sure that the message
reached her.
But we did have this one
attempt to set us up.
Fayed had a lot of people
working for him.
They asked for
a private meeting with me
and they offered... It was a man
called Paul Handley-Greaves.
His story was that he had been
fired by Mohamed,
but then he said he would like
to come to our side
and offer us this video of Fayed
having sex with an employee.
Now, of course,
if that had been the case,
that would have been gold dust,
but it was too easy.
Who's going to make that tape?
It's not Fayed and it's not
going to be his security people.
That tape does not exist.
So I said if such a tape existed
and I offered you money
or even accepted it,
I'd be in breach of the law
because I'd be receiving
stolen goods.
Anyway, somebody - I won't say who -
did make an offer.
And we looked completely idiotic.
To that degree, we were at war.
One afternoon, I got a phone call
from somebody.
Mr Al Fayed wanted to ask me
if I would bear witness
to his good character in a court
proceedings
that he had taken out
against the journalist.
And I said, "If you think
I'm going to bear witness
"to his good character,
you've got another thing coming."
And hoped that that was that.
But received a courier package
a few days later
that included a statement
that I had supposedly given,
witnessing Mohamed's good character,
signed by me,
and I had not given that statement,
and I had not signed a statement.
At which point I was
absolutely terrified
because I thought,
if this can happen,
what else could happen to me?
We had a lot of evidence.
We were really in a strong position.
They couldn't do anything
about Maureen's article.
Everything we found out in support,
which is much, much sort of more
damaging than Maureen's article,
and to have women in court
saying, actually, he came over
in his dressing gown and offered me
100 for this or that sexual favour.
It was completely...
He couldn't have had that.
This is BBC Television from London.
Diana, Princess of Wales, has died
after a car crash in Paris.
The French government
announced her death
just before 5:00 this morning.
Diana, Princess of Wales,
had been a passenger in a car
which crashed in a tunnel
next to the River Seine.
Her friend Dodi Fayed
and their driver were also killed.
Everyone was traumatised
by the appalling events in Paris.
Nobody was thinking about this
libel case after what had happened.
The moment the crash happened and
Diana was dead and Dodi was dead,
forget it, you know?
It was a bigger event.
It was more important
than our dispute.
This is the letter reporting
a settlement offer
in the Al Fayed case.
They're prepared to drop the case.
And then what they wanted
- and here's the key thing -
we would destroy everything
we've discovered,
evidence, affidavits
and correspondence.
We would never refer
to the case again.
He'd won the game.
We had got a case which could go
to court and would have beaten him,
and the only thing they want to do
is to destroy everything
that we'd found out
in those two years.
And that is the crucial proposal
which we accepted.
I was really cross
that we'd been silenced,
and we would not be able to
publicise what had gone on
at Harrods and in France,
at the Bois de Boulogne residence.
NEWS ARCHIVE: Two memorials
to Diana and Dodi
were in place at Harrods today.
Tourists came to sign the books
of condolence
set up outside the store.
In the afternoon, Mr Al Fayed
arrived to thank them.
God bless you, darling. It's no
problem. Thank you very much.
Once the accident happened,
naturally, he became
extremely famous.
It involved arguably one of
Britain's most important icons
of the last century.
She was beloved.
But one can only have empathy
for someone whose child,
even if it is an adult child, was
killed in such a horrific manner.
We're at the Pont de l'Alma,
where the accident that killed
Princess Diana
and Dodi Al Fayed happened.
A year later, I was the assistant
to Mohamed Al Fayed.
As Mohamed Al Fayed's
executive assistant at the Ritz.
I was his only assistant
on the European continent.
I'd say probably 50% had to do
with managing various aspects
of the investigation.
But at the same time,
he could be putting his hand
up my skirt.
He would take my head and he would
push it into his genitals.
I realised relatively quickly
I should never sit,
because then I'm trapped.
And I couldn't get out.
I couldn't get out of the chair.
Mohamed Al Fayed was like
an apex predator.
Often going into his office,
when he summoned me, there was
like, um, excitement.
Like a... Like...
And then it moved so fast.
He had done this for so long.
He enjoyed the chase
and he enjoyed...
..I guess, the fear in my eyes,
or our eyes.
I was always consumed with fear.
I was consumed with keeping my job.
I just thought,
I'll do two years here.
I'll get my letter of recommendation
and then just out.
It will be a trampoline to
something really great.
Bite the bullet and get through it,
right?
Before I learned what I have done,
I had no issue with Mohamed Al Fayed
at all. I guess I was
sympathetic to him, if anything.
You know, the whole death
of his son.
When Dodi died, public sympathy
was so immense
that he was then untouchable.
The Big Story, I found reference
to it online
in some rabbit hole I was down.
We did start to peel the lid
on what Fayed was.
FROM LAPTOP: This young woman
is prepared to talk,
but she's too frightened
to be identified.
She accuses Mohamed Fayed
of repeated sexual harassment
when she worked with him at Harrods.
Some were anonymous because
they were terrified.
When Mr Al Fayed came
into my office,
if I were standing by the filing
cabinet, he would come and grope me,
make obscene remarks about
my sexual life, my private parts.
Nothing in that was as serious
as what we now know to be.
However, clearly he was at
bare minimum exposed as a groper -
and that is sexual harassment,
sexual assault, and that is a crime.
These allegations were in the open.
They were out there.
They were public.
There's no way on the planet that
senior execs at Harrods didn't know,
but it just carried on continuing.
It should have caused huge concern,
but it didn't.
It bounced off him and before
we know it, he's back on telly,
acting the clown with Ali G, etc.
Me and you, Mou, is gonna be like
a pair of rappers. Excellent.
Like, I is Snoop. You is Dr Dre.
I is Chuck D, you is Flavor Flav.
I is the Method Man,
you is the Ol' Dirty Bastard.
LAUGHTER
You are the dirty bastard, not me!
DJ, give me the beat!
Here come the shopkeeper
Mohamed
Here come the shopkeeper
Mohamed
Him the libel case winner
Al Fayed
Him got a nice face
Al Fayed...
So Mohamed Fayed presented
himself as a clown.
And people only see the clown.
Please welcome back
Mohamed Al Fayed.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you!
Thank you, thank you.
Thank you.
What they don't realise is that
behind that clownish buffoonery,
that eccentricity,
lies a very, very, deeply dark,
determined sexual predator.
It is a absolutely classic disguise.
He went on into the noughties
and later behaving in that way,
and he never paid for it.
Look, I know I may appear
as though I've got a teenage crush,
but there's something intoxicating
about standing next to an anarchist,
especially an anarchist billionaire.
And you can count those
on the fingers of a mitten.
So when I was hired,
the documentary You're Fayed
I think just came out
a couple of days beforehand.
FAYED:
He did come across as he was
having quite a laugh.
FROM LAPTOP: Oh, you're naughty!
He was definitely obsessed with sex.
There was no sense of humour
about it.
It was highly unpleasant.
It became clear to me that this job
was going to be a short one.
He could definitely be charming,
but I think that's mostly the image
that he would like to give off.
He used to do a walk around
and talk to members of the public.
Viagra for tonight. Oh.
He would hand things out
and invite people to maybe work
for him in the future.
And I think it was often quite
an event
for anybody who he came across.
I had just turned 14
when Mum and I...
..met Mohamed Al Fayed in Harrods.
Everyone was asking
for photos of him,
so, you know, we asked
for a photo with him.
We got chatting and he asked me
to work for him in Harrods,
and I said, "I would love to,
but I can't. I'm underage."
And he said, "It's fine,
we can find a way."
And obviously for me,
I was - of course, how amazing.
I had started working at Harrods
when I had just turned 15.
I was told not to talk about my age.
I started to see him at
the beginning like a father figure,
you know, just wanted the best
intentions for me.
And then as time went on,
I just started to see some weird...
Like, the longer hugs
and the longer kisses,
and then the phone calls
started happening on my mobile.
You know, I'm a 15-year-old
and he's now calling
my personal mobile.
I hope that from today, people see
what he was really like.
Mohamed Al Fayed is a rapist.
I think he's a serial rapist.
I joined in 2007
and it was my first job in London.
I think his behaviour was
inappropriate from the start.
He would make comments about girls
being on their periods,
grabbing their crotch area,
not stuff that you would expect
to be spoken about
in an office environment.
His behaviour would become
more scary while I was on the trips.
My first trip was actually
to Abu Dhabi
and that's when I realised,
actually, he's not joking,
he's serious.
I was away in a foreign country
that I'd never visited before
and he was trying to get in my room
in quite an aggressive manner.
It was absolutely terrifying.
The other senior PA, who'd been
travelling with him numerous times,
she just said, "Look, it's what
he does. He'll give up eventually."
The incident happened in May 2008.
I was asked to go to his, um...
Up to the boardroom.
He was in a funny mood.
Like, a very bad mood.
Started just getting really,
like, hugging me
and touchy and feely
and rubbing himself against me,
and, um, and then, um,
he just grabbed my face
and tried to, like, just basically
put his tongue in my mouth.
I mentioned that I was 15,
and what are you doing?
And he said I was turning
into a beautiful woman,
and he grabbed my chest.
I pushed him off, and he saw I was
freaked out and scared,
and he just went into a rage
and just started screaming
at me and just...
SOBBING: Sorry.
I was a child when this happened.
You know, he was nearly 80
and I was 15.
I spoke to my parents
and we all thought the best people
maybe to talk to were the police.
I was reporting child sex abuse
within a working place.
And, um, that's when it
all went bad.
There was a leak
within the police force
which led to them
going to the press.
The owner of Harrods,
Mohamed Al Fayed,
has been interviewed by police
in connection with an
allegation of sexual assault
against a girl under 16.
NEWS REPORT: Mohamed Al Fayed
has denied an allegation
that he sexually assaulted
a teenage girl.
I was told not to leave the house.
I was put in a safe house.
We were told by the police that
there was an inside investigation
within the police force
to why and how my information
had been leaked.
I couldn't trust anyone
at this point.
The allegations, which first
surfaced in a Sunday newspaper,
are that the schoolgirl met Mr Fayed
while she was shopping here
with her mother.
It's alleged he asked for her phone
number and later invited her back.
She claims it was then that
he sexually assaulted her.
When the allegations of the
15-year-old girl came about,
the only time I really knew about it
was when I was summonsed into
an office with a police officer
and questioned myself
about his behaviour,
and if I thought that there was
any chance that he'd done
what he was being accused of.
Obviously my answer would
have been yes,
but given I was escorted
by a Harrods lawyer,
my answers were, "No, he's fine."
You know, "He's...he's appropriate.
"I've never seen this behaviour."
Looking back, I wish I'd been strong
enough and brave enough to say yes,
I think she was right.
He did not attend under compulsion
and the meeting lasted
for less than half an hour.
Mr Al Fayed vehemently denies
this allegation
and is confident that his name
will be cleared.
I think if I met that
15-year-old now, I would be...
I'd be so sorry that I didn't
stick up for her
and that I didn't do
the right thing.
I wish I'd been brave enough
at the time, but I just wasn't.
I think that's what's pushed me
to speak up now.
It feels like it's a chance
to make right all the wrongs,
even though we were wronged
ourselves.
I'm glad she's speaking up now,
and I appreciate
what she's had to say.
But it's also, like,
I wish she'd said something.
But, you know, we're all under...
We live in fear.
We were all under fear, you know.
He was a scary person.
So, you know...
It wasn't until I'd experienced
the more serious side
of his harassment that I realised
it wasn't something
he was playing around with.
He was serious.
And it got to a point where I just
didn't know which way to turn.
So I bought a small Dictaphone
that I had in my pocket
in case I needed to record something
that was happening.
And these are the transcripts
from those recordings.
It's really, I think, the only kind
of evidence that we've got
of what he's done to me
and to others.
And one of them was in Paris, in his
residence there, Villa Windsor.
I just put the recorder on,
like, a bedside table,
and obviously I fell asleep
and woke up with him telling me,
"Are we having a party tonight?"
I was so shocked at him coming in
that I made out I had had an
allergic reaction to nuts.
He's basically telling me to relax
and, "It's important for you
to make love and relax."
I said, "I just want to go
to sleep on my own.
"Mr Fayed, I don't want to.
Mr Fayed."
And he kept saying,
"Relax, please relax."
How can you relax
when you're in that situation?
He walked out and he was angry.
These were taken just before
the final incident.
There was one particular trip
to Paris
that was just
the final straw for me.
Arriving in Paris,
we'd be escorted by police.
There'd normally be six or seven
police cars and motorbikes
following us with full siren
all the way through Paris
until we arrived at Villa Windsor,
where we were to spend the evening.
I took myself off to bed.
I woke up startled
and he was just there,
wearing nothing but a silk...
..like, dressing gown-type,
smoking jacket thing.
And he tried
to get in the bed with me
and I told him,
"No, I don't want you to."
And he proceeded to just keep trying
to get in the bed,
at which point he was kind of
on top of me
and I really couldn't move anywhere.
I was kind of face down on the bed
and he just pressed himself on me.
At that point, I just cried
and he got up
and quite aggressively said to me,
"Go in there and wash yourself,"
and pointed to the bathroom.
He told me there was a bottle
of Dettol in there
and I just stood in the bath and
washed myself as I was told to.
Obviously he wanted me to erase
any trace
of him being anywhere near me
at that point.
Is he a rapist?
He's... Yeah, he's a rapist.
In your head, is he a criminal?
Yeah, he's a criminal.
My case was definitely the closest
to going to the courtroom.
Definitely.
But that was... It didn't.
I handed my phone
to the police for evidence.
The evidence on there would
have been the phone log
of the calls that I received.
Once I received my phone back,
it wouldn't turn on.
It doesn't - it didn't work.
It was dead.
Nothing. Nothing would work.
Nothing would work on it.
The charges got dropped,
from not enough evidence.
I managed to get my dates mixed up.
I said it happened on the Saturday
when it happened on the Friday,
the incident.
And then it just came down to just
that one day
with, you know, I was like,
"How could I get the day wrong?
"How could I get the day wrong?"
But it was not my fault.
I do not feel that it was a strong
enough reason
for that case to be dropped,
I really don't.
I got back to the safety
of my house,
and I decided I wasn't going back,
and I decided to engage
with a lawyer.
When my lawyer contacted Harrods,
he sent them transcripts
from the tapes that I had recorded
and told them that I was leaving
on the grounds of sexual harassment.
My lawyer, he advised that obviously
it was really sensitive,
given who he was.
They said, look, we just need to do
this quickly and quietly.
The agreement for me leaving was
I had to shred all of the evidence,
and in return I would be given
a sum of money
and would be left alone.
The lawyers organised
for a shredding truck
to come to my lawyer's office,
where we placed everything in.
It was shredded in front of us,
including tapes I had of him,
my phone that had messages
and voicemails.
Really quite nasty voicemails
on them.
Someone from HR was present
for the shredding
of all of the evidence I had.
Harrods, I think they knew
the significance
of having this kind
of information available.
I think they just wanted to get rid
of it as quick as possible
and get rid of me
as quick as possible.
I thought I'd lost the transcripts,
but actually what I did have was the
transcriptions sent to my lawyer
in my sent items
of my email account at the time.
I was advised it would be in my best
interest not to talk,
that I was to keep it quiet.
All these years, not being able
to talk about something
that's so unfair.
Like, it's so unfair
to make somebody go through
something like that
and then expect them
not to talk about it.
It's cruel.
There's often the case
in any settlement
that nondisclosure agreements
form part
to keep the settlement confidential.
And there's no specific issue
with that.
My position on this, however,
is some of these people
were being subjected to criminal
offences, and therefore,
in those circumstances, I certainly
would question the role
of a nondisclosure agreement. Yeah.
We say there has been clearly
attempts by the senior people
at Harrods to sweep
this under the carpet.
And here is someone who has all the
resources in the world...
And all the power. ..and a number of
people in whose interests it is
to actually say, of course,
nothing to see here.
Mohamed Al Fayed was always the one
that got away.
I've tried to correct the record
and expose this horrific
sex offender.
This is all...
This is quite old school.
These are all internal drives...
..I haven't looked at for years,
some of these,
but it's basically
the footage of films
that I've made over, like, 20 years,
all locked away on these drives.
So "Star" is Starsuckers.
It's one of the most shocking,
revelatory,
powerful things I've ever filmed.
The aim of Starsuckers was to pull
back the curtain
of the media machine
and sort of expose a lot
of the deceit and wrongdoing
that was, at the time,
quite prevalent
in the British
and international media.
It was a bit of a kind of
Wild West culture, really -
and in the middle of that culture
was Max Clifford,
sort of, you know, pulling
the strings in all directions
and sort of being this sort of
all-powerful figure
who could either put false stories
into the media to promote a client,
or stop negative stories coming out
about people he represented.
We couldn't just go to him and say,
"Hey, Max, why don't you just tell
us how you censor the press?"
And the way we came up with was
through undercover filming.
MAX CLIFFORD: All right, no,
it's like...it's like Mohamed.
Yeah, yeah.
It's gone on for 15 years.
And would keep going on,
and continue to go on.
So, there was no question
that what we had was dynamite.
Um, the problem started to come
was when we were getting the film
legally checked,
and the problem came from the fact
that Mohamed Al Fayed
was notoriously litigious.
We had an excellent law firm,
but they said to us, if you put
this material in your film
as it stands, you will be sued.
What we had to do was to
beep out Fayed's name.
BRACKETED WORDS BEEPED
Yeah, yeah.
Fayed was the one that we missed.
Fayed was the one that we let go.
It makes me feel absolutely sick
that he was doing this,
and he was able to get away
with it for so long,
and we weren't able to stop him.
Those women were let down.
Everybody's known of this behaviour,
and I think no-one's really been
able to do anything fully about it.
I have spoken up about my time
there on numerous occasions.
Every time the press tried to do
something, it was shut down.
I was approached...I think
it was a Dispatches programme, then.
We'd done the filming,
and that was shut down.
And I just remember being
a little angry,
but also thinking,
here we go again.
You know, it's been shut down
in the magazines,
it's been shut down in the papers,
and now it's shut down on screen.
NEWS ARCHIVE: The store, famed for
its sales, was sold today.
The handshake
was more of a handover.
After a quarter of a century
in charge of Harrods,
Mohamed Al Fayed was cashing in.
It was after the #MeToo movement.
Public opinion towards
this sort of behaviour
and towards these sort of people was
changing, and it was changing fast,
and I really felt that it was
the moment to speak up.
And I waived my anonymity
for the programme,
which I did not do lightly.
VOICEOVER: Mohamed Al Fayed,
super rich and powerful.
The famous former owner of Harrods
faces serious allegations.
He said, "If you don't sleep
with me,
"I can't help you
with your acting career."
It was a very key moment.
It gave other women the courage
to come forward and tell their story
and to reach some kind of closure.
However, for me it felt like it
slightly sank without a trace.
It was 2018 when I started to feel
strong enough to do something.
I couldn't ever get my career back.
That was stolen from me
and he took that from me.
We went to the police station.
I was filmed making
my video statement,
and then this all went forward
with the police
to try and take this
to court or whatever.
But Mohamed was too old
to be prosecuted
and they said he wasn't in the right
state of mind, or, you know -
so, they decided it wasn't worth
pursuing, and it was dropped.
We engaged a lawyer and they
approached Harrods' lawyers.
It just took so long.
It was only just before he died
that they suddenly sent a letter
saying they were willing to sort of,
you know, compensate me.
We're hoping this would happen
before Mohamed died,
so that he would realise he hasn't
got away with this,
so that he would know everything
he's done is wrong.
NEWS MONTAGE: Just as we came on air
tonight, it's been confirmed
that the self-made Egyptian
billionaire...
..Mohamed Al Fayed
has died at the age of 94.
He will be remembered as the man
who owned Harrods.
His deep obsession with
British aristocratic society
was later fictionalised in
the Netflix series The Crown.
Does everyone in your family
say things twice twice?
No, no.
I bet they do do, Mou Mou.
I was angry that he hadn't
been publicly shamed
for what he had done,
for the amount of women he had,
you know, destroyed.
Just then I thought,
"Oh, he's got away with it.
"There we go." I knew it was going
to happen anyway.
He was a tremendous life force.
He was obviously controversial,
but I feel that
he did more good in this world
than all his critics combined.
The people who worked for him, and
the people who were his customers
and the fans of his football club,
they know the real Mohamed
and they cherished his friendship
and they cherish what he did.
It's not fair that he got to die
with the legacy he did.
I know there are many other
victims of Mohamed Al Fayed.
It's just horrific to think
that he got away with that.
I think the fact that Al Fayed
got away with as much as he did
was because a lot of people
engineered these situations
on his behalf.
Fayed would have stood a few paces
back in these situations,
and everyone else would be out
there doing his dirty work for him.
The senior PA, I assume,
is the person that set up
and instructed the doctor
to do my medical.
I think the doctor who did my
medical should be held accountable
for providing information
to Mohamed,
which he used to take
advantage of us.
There was always a group of people
that knew where Al Fayed was,
what his movements were.
They can't say,
"Oh, I never saw anything."
May not have seen the act.
There was certainly
a pattern to it all.
So I started thinking,
how many people were in on this?
Harrods, I think they knew
the significance
of having this kind of
information available.
A person like that has a lot
of people who are drawn to money
and power, and do what is required
of them by that man.
It was, in hindsight, such a massive
ring of corruption and sexual abuse.
Many of those people have been named
by these survivors in their accounts
and statements, and it will only
be a matter of time
before they all need
to be approached.
Expect that knock on the door
at some point.
I want to deter any other
Mohamed Al Fayeds in the making,
to stop them doing anything
like this ever again.
It's important, this film, because
it's a loud voice screaming
at everyone to say this is not
acceptable any longer.
I've spent so many years being quiet
and silent and not speaking up.
I hope talking about it now helps.
That we can all start feeling
better and healing from it.
I think he damaged me in some way.
But I'm moving on from that now.
I want to put it all behind me now
and forget about it.
Move on and be strong.