Fayed’s blonde fixer toured pubs to find women for billionaire to prey on

Associate befriended ‘pretty young girls’ and drove them to Harrods tycoon’s penthouse in a white Range Rover

An enabler for Mohamed Fayed sought out young women in pubs and clubs for the Harrods billionaire to prey on, it can be revealed.
The young blonde associate, who cannot be named for legal reasons, would visit pubs in Surrey looking for “pretty young girls” and promise them a job at Harrods, a woman whom she procured has claimed.
She would befriend the women by boasting of her wealth and designer bags before asking if they would like to meet her “boss”, the billionaire Egyptian businessman.
She would then arrange a date to meet the girls, drive them to Fayed’s Park Lane penthouse apartment in a white Range Rover, and hand them over to the alleged sex abuser.
The disclosure sheds new light on the network through which Fayed procured women. Lawyers have compared the tycoon to Jeffrey Epstein, who used his associate Ghislaine Maxwell to groom underage girls.
Fayed has been accused by more than 100 women of sexual abuse in the wake of a BBC documentary about his alleged attacks.
At least four women in Surrey were approached by the glamorous executive around 2011 and taken to see Fayed, The Telegraph understands.
One woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said she was approached by Fayed’s associate when she was a university graduate while drinking at a pub in Cobham.
She was driven to London to meet Fayed, who greeted her wearing silk pyjamas and asked: “Would you stay with me tonight?”.
Refusing, she was allowed to leave untouched after accepting £350 in cash and a promise that he would get her a job at the department store.
Speaking for the first time, she said: “He rang me up all the time. He would just be like ‘you need you to come and see me, you need to come and work at Harrods’.
“It was like having a chit-chat with a dirty grandpa. It was very odd. He was a man of few words but I knew straight away what he wanted.”
Nineteen women have made allegations against Fayed to the Metropolitan Police, the force has revealed.
The reports, made between 2005 and 2023, included three allegations of rape, 15 reports of sexual assault and one related to trafficking. The offences are said to have taken place between 1979 and 2013.
Between 2005 and 2023, the Met approached the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on five occasions – two of these, in 2009 and 2015, were to pass full files of evidence.
However, in all 19 allegations that were reported to police, no further action was taken against Fayed, who died last year aged 94.
The Metropolitan Police also announced it was looking into any other people who “could be pursued for criminal offences” over sexual abuse allegations against Fayed.
“It is important to make clear at this stage that it is not possible for criminal proceedings to be brought against someone who has died,” the force said. This means there is no prospect of any conviction relating to Fayed himself.
“However, we must ensure we fully explore whether any other individuals could be pursued for any criminal offences.
“As such, we are carrying out full reviews of all existing allegations reported to us about Al Fayed to ensure there are no new lines of enquiry based on new information which has emerged.”
Fayed’s son said in a statement on Friday evening that the allegations made against his late father have “thrown into question the loving memory I had of him”.
In a statement to Sky News, Omar Fayed said: “I am horrified and deeply concerned by the allegations recently brought to light against my late father.
“The extent and explicit nature of the allegations are shocking and has thrown into question the loving memory I had of him.
“How this matter could have been concealed for so long and in so many ways raises further disturbing questions.”
Mr Fayed, the founder of data visualisation and mapping company EarthX, said although he loved his father “very much” and he was a “wonderful dad, that aspect of our relationship … does not blind me from an objective assessment of circumstances”.
He said he stood “unequivocally in support of any legitimate investigation into these allegations”, adding: “The alleged victims and public deserve full transparency and accountability.
“I will continue to support the principles of truth, justice, accountability and fairness, regardless of where that journey may lead. No-one is above the law.”
It came as Michael Ward, the managing director of Harrods, claimed that he was “not aware” of Fayed’s predatory sexual abuse.
Mr Ward has been under mounting pressure to reveal what he knew about Fayed’s alleged attacks after managers were accused of presiding over a “culture of secrecy and fear”.
Mr Ward, who has been in the post since 2006, oversaw the luxury retailer both while it was under Fayed’s ownership and afterwards. There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing on the part of Mr Ward.
On the blonde fixer, the woman added: “I think she would have gone around Parsons Green, Chelsea and where all those girls hang out and going up to them saying: ‘Hey do you want to go work at Harrods?’
“We all had a lucky escape, I can tell you that.
“I think she thought she was getting quick cash in hand. I don’t think she would have known the full scale.”
Yesterday, the lawyers representing women who allege rape and sexual abuse while working at Harrods said there was “credible evidence of abuse” at Fulham Football Club under Fayed’s ownership.
The allegation was made by the Justice For Harrods Survivors, which is now representing 60 women, and says that it has been contacted by more than 200 people from all over the world.
A spokesman for the group said: “Given our prolonged experience in dealing with the women impacted by this case, we expected that anywhere Mohamed Al-Fayed went, abuse would follow. Sadly, this has proven to be true. We are now in possession of credible evidence of abuse at other Al-Fayed properties and businesses, including Fulham Football Club.”