Three former employees at Harrods they claimed that one of them was also abusing women, according to complaints they have made to BBCincluding sexual assault and human trafficking.
The women claim that Salah Fayed abused them in London, the south of France and Monaco between 1989 and 1997. One woman believes she was raped by Salah after he drugged her.
The three women say they were also sexually assaulted or raped by Mohamed Al Fayed, then the company’s chairman.
The company Harrodswhich came under new ownership in 2010, said in a statement that the and “raise serious allegations” against his brother.
Salah, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2010, was one of three Fayed brothers who bought the luxury department store Knightsbridgein 1985.
One of the three women, Helen, was only 23 years old when she worked at “dream” job of, at Harrodsfor almost two years, when Mohammed al-Fayed raped her in a hotel room in Dubai.
Months later, when Mohamed offered her some personal assistant work with his younger brother, she saw it as an escape route, but instead says Salah drugged her and believes he then raped her while she was unconscious. “He (al Fayed) shared me with his brother,” he says.
OR Helen spoke out for the first time after feeling silent for 35 years, in part because of a confidentiality agreement Harrods which she was told to sign. “They stole a piece of me. They changed the course of my entire life,” he said.
