Mohamed Al Fayed’s victims ‘hunt for his mysterious Ghislaine Maxwell-style fixer’ who prevented his attacker from being caught

MOHAMED Al Fayed’s victims are ‘hunting for his Ghislaine Maxwell-style fixer’ who protected the sex offender.

The late Harrods magnate is said to have had a ‘fixer’ who sought out young victims for the predator.

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It comes after more than 150 women courageously came forward to tell how Fayed sexually abused them since the BBC2 documentary Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods exposed him as a serial rapist.

Bruce Drummond, lawyer for some of the compensation claims against Harrods, said: “This is the worst case of corporate sexual exploitation of young women that I have ever seen, and I think the world has probably ever seen.”

According to MailOnline, the monster would have had a Ghislaine Maxwell-style assistant to help him.

Maxwell, the former partner of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted of child sex trafficking in 2021.

Meanwhile, Fayed’s “fixer” was described as a blonde woman who wore designer clothes and drove a Porsche.

A teenage girl who met her claimed that her helper showed her money and then asked her to meet her rich friend.

The woman is said to have worked as a senior manager at Harrods at the time.

She hung around wealthy areas of London, luring young women for drinks in expensive establishments, then making dark promises to help them find work.

The woman reportedly took them to Fayed’s penthouse, as if handing them to the predator on a silver platter.

The source said the ‘fixer’ was proud of herself for providing him with a different victim ‘every few months’.

However, the BBC documentary that revealed how Fayed abused girls and young women for more than three decades made no mention of the woman.

A student, then 19 years old, 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 had such an age gap.

“Then she got up and said she wanted to see him, so we drove through Knightsbridge. I remember arriving at 60 Park Lane and pulling into this garage.

“Alarm bells started ringing in my head because I was suddenly stuck.”

The former student claimed that Fayed wanted to have sex with her, but she refused and escaped unharmed.

However, he gave her £300 cash along with his phone number and is said to have told her: “Call me if you get horny”.

Groomsman Mohamed Fayed Reveals How Sex Predator Made Teenage Girls Run Past Him

By Stephen Moyes

A farmhand who worked for Mohamed Fayed told how the sex offender would have teenage workers trot past on his horses so he could watch them.

The woman – then just 15 in 1987 – was one of a team hired to deal with nagging comments from the Harrods boss. She said he got a kick out of humiliating staff and making them fear for their jobs.

She revealed that he had tried to persuade her to visit him in London, and that she had to invent a boyfriend to fend off his advances.

She recounted the time she worked for him: “He was so creepy. He would sit in a tent on his lawn and bark at us to jog past him with his horses so he could see our young bodies bobbing up and down.
“He’d like to see us in our Harrods tops and jodhpurs.”

The woman said the Egyptian billionaire, who died last year at the age of 94, went around his Barrow Green estate in Surrey offering money to girls he liked.

She said: “People were afraid of losing their jobs and upsetting him – and he got satisfaction from that.

“The workers were on tenterhooks, but he feared no repercussions and was the god of his domain.”

The woman said some girls who were lured to London with the promise of success and money to work for him later became victims themselves.

Of her own predicament, she said: ‘He knew how young I was, but he still asked me to come to London and visit him when he didn’t have his family around.

“I pretended to have a boyfriend to get out of it.”

The woman continued: “His security, all ex-military police, knew exactly what he was like, but we were just told to go along with his behaviour and do what he said. He was sick and wasn’t afraid of comebacks.”

When the teenager told the ‘fixer’ about her nightmare, the woman allegedly said: “It’s not that bad, it won’t last that long and after that he will give you everything you want.”

Another source claimed the woman had made a name for herself by taking Harrods staff to Fayed’s properties in exchange for gifts and money.

KC Dean Armstrong, who represents 37 victims, said the case combines “some of the most appalling elements”, including those of 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 indication of how he controlled these poor women,” he said in an interview with Good Morning Britain.

Richard Madeley highlighted evidence that security guards and underlings working at Harrods were involved.

The host asked if there was any possibility that these people could be brought to justice.

“Certainly, as part of our evidence gathering we are looking at every angle of this. Obviously we are involved in a civil claim and we are focusing on Harrods and the particular machinery that I was talking about,” said KC Armstrong.

“The ability to facilitate the sexual abuse that these women have suffered. If the information resulting from our investigation is useful to the police and the CPS, then of course we are happy to share it.

“We must not forget that there have been serious shortcomings. For example, in 2008 there was a 15-year-old girl who complained that a man in his late 70s had attacked her. That file was passed on to the Public Prosecution Service and apparently there was no realistic chance of a conviction.

“We are doing everything we can to get justice for these women, to give them a voice free from terror. That is what they absolutely deserve.

“And if there are people involved in this, who clearly were involved, because this man could not have accomplished this without the help of others, then I am absolutely prepared to get to the bottom of this.

“The process is exactly the same: it involves selection, finding women with a certain appearance and a certain age, and then the invasive medical examinations.”

The Public Prosecution Service has confirmed that it failed to charge Fayed on two occasions.

The first time was in 2009, when Prime Minister 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 satisfied that there is a realistic prospect of a conviction. In each case, our prosecutors carefully considered the evidence and concluded that this was not the case.”

Gemma, Al Fayed’s former personal assistant, who said she was raped at Windsor Villa, was also a brave talker from the GMB bench.

She said: “I didn’t think the scale of what happened to me had happened to others. It was such a secret place to work.

“I knew others were being harassed and that there were problems, but I didn’t know to what extent my attack had affected others.

“I shared what I have on the doctor, it is a difficult topic and I still find it difficult to talk about.

“It’s getting easier and easier, and with these people supporting me it’s definitely getting easier.”

Gemma claimed Fayed’s ‘lawyers and security team’ would threaten her by saying they knew where her family lived.

She said she still feels the fear, adding: “Nine years after my attack, I got a call and was reminded that I wasn’t allowed to talk, and that I would be charged and that people knew where I worked. It was terrifying.”

Harrods said in a statement: “We are utterly shocked by the allegations of abuse committed by Mohamed Al Fayed. These were the actions of an individual who intended to abuse his power wherever he operated and we condemn them in the strongest terms.

“We also recognize that as a company we have failed our employees who were victims of this act during this time and for that we offer our sincere apologies.

“The Harrods of today is a very different organisation to the one Al Fayed owned and led between 1985 and 2010. It is an organisation that puts the wellbeing of its employees at the heart of everything we do.”

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