Bianca Gascoigne details harrowing Mohamed Al-Fayed abuse after 'red flags'

TV prima Bianca Gascoigne has claimed she was groomed and sexually assaulted by precocious Harrods brag Mohamed Al Fayed erstwhile she worked astatine the luxury departments store

Bianca Gascoigne has lone precocious elaborate her acquisition moving astatine Harrods to her family.

The TV star, 37, is the girl of shot fable Paul Gascoigne and worked astatine the precocious extremity section store erstwhile she was a teenager. Last month, Bianca claimed she was groomed and sexually assaulted by its precocious brag Mohamed Al-Fayed. She joined the squad astatine the luxury section store successful Knightsbridge erstwhile she was 16 and worked her mode up successful the institution and became a manner buyer.

The mum-of-one has antecedently claimed that things changed drastically erstwhile she started moving nether Al-Fayed. She claimed the Egyptian businessman would 'grope her' and 'force her to buss him' connected a play ground during their meetings. Bianca antecedently recalled 1 nighttime wherever the businessman offered her to enactment astatine Harrods Park Lane flat earlier she needed to committee an aboriginal formation successful the morning.

She claims Al Fayed turned up astatine the flat with nary informing and sexually assaulted her. Bianca said she didn't expect Al-Fayed "in immoderate signifier oregon form" and "got my manus and got his privates retired and tried to maneuver and propulsion my caput down." She claimed she was capable to "wriggle free".

"My mum knew thing had happened due to the fact that implicit the years I’d astir apt fixed her an indication," she said successful an caller interrogation with Daily Mail. "When Al Fayed offered maine an apartment, wherever the maltreatment stepped up a notch she really went and had a gathering with him."

She added: "He offered to bargain maine a level and my mum felt that it didn’t look close – the reddish flags were starting to show, truthful she went and spoke to him, and I inactive didn’t negociate to talk to her [about it] then." Bianca lone precocious opened up to her parent arsenic she "didn't privation to upset immoderate of the family".

A drawstring of allegations against Al-Fayed person emerged since the merchandise of an probe by the BBC. The Egyptian businessman died past twelvemonth aged 94. The Metropolitan Police said it had 60 allegations against Al-Fayed since the BBC documentary, including claims of rape and intersexual assault.

Those are successful summation to the 21 women who went to the constabulary betwixt 2005 and 2023 with enactment transgression allegations against the businessman. Last month, Harrods said much than 250 radical are portion of its process to settee compensation claims implicit Al-Fayed's alleged intersexual misconduct.

Bianca made an quality connected This Morning successful October where she reflected connected 1 of the "worst ordeals" of her life. The prima added that the unpleasant occurrences made her consciousness "dirty" and "scared" to unfastened up arsenic she held backmost tears. When questioned wherefore she didn't accidental thing astatine the time, she said: "There's a batch of aspects to it and I conscionable felt precise very ashamed. I felt dirty, I conscionable benignant of pretended that it wasn't happening. I conscionable enactment it successful a container and conscionable moved connected and tried to woody with it."

In a statement, Harrods said of the allegations surrounding Al-Fayed: "We are utterly appalled by the allegations of maltreatment perpetrated by Mohamed Al Fayed. These were the actions of an idiosyncratic who was intent connected abusing his powerfulness wherever helium operated and we condemn them successful the strongest terms. We besides admit that during this clip arsenic a concern we failed our employees who were his victims and for this we sincerely apologise.

The Harrods of contiguous is simply a precise antithetic organisation to the 1 owned and controlled by Al Fayed betwixt 1985 and 2010, it is 1 that seeks to enactment the payment of our employees astatine the bosom of everything we do. This is why, since caller accusation came to airy successful 2023 astir historical allegations of intersexual maltreatment by Al Fayed, it has been our precedence to settee claims successful the quickest mode possible, avoiding lengthy ineligible proceedings for the women involved. This process is inactive disposable for immoderate existent oregon erstwhile Harrods employees - delight spell to https://response.harrods.com for further information.

"While we cannot undo the past, we person been determined to bash the close happening arsenic an organisation, driven by the values we clasp today, portion ensuring that specified behaviour tin ne'er beryllium repeated successful the future."

If you've been the unfortunate of intersexual assault, you tin entree assistance and resources via www.rapecrisis.org.uk oregon calling the nationalist telephone helpline connected 0808 802 9999

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