Donald Trump gushes over 'great guy' Mohamed Al-Fayed' in resurfaced interview

Former US president Donald Trump couldn't talk highly capable of precocious billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed - who is present the taxable of much than 400 rape and intersexual harassment allegations

Donald Trump erstwhile claimed helium had a "great" narration with Mohamed Al-Fayed and described the alleged intersexual predator arsenic a "fabulous" man.

The erstwhile president and Republican statesmanlike nominee praised the precocious billionaire and proprietor of Harrod's respective times implicit the years, agelong earlier the Egyptian tycoon became the taxable of much than 400 allegations of intersexual harassment and rape.

Al-Fayed was truthful well-respected by Trump, 78, that helium was adjacent invited to his wedding with Melania backmost successful 2005. However, the relationship betwixt the 2 businessmen began acold earlier. In 1988, during an interrogation with Terry Wogan connected the BBC, Trump couldn't talk highly capable of the tycoon.

Trump, who was sat beside Ivana, his archetypal wife, spoke astir gathering Al-Fayed and his Finnish exemplary wife, Heini Wathen-Fayed.

"This is simply a state that I find fascinating. We were with a antheral yesterday, Mohamed Al-Fayed - who owns Harrods - and helium is simply a fabulous man. And his woman is conscionable a fantastic woman and we spent a time and we walked done Harrods," Trump told Wogan.

"I mean, arsenic an example, what a quality betwixt this and erstwhile we past saw it 5 years agone the large occupation he's done with it."

Fellow impermanent comedian Barry Humphries, who was champion known arsenic his alter-ego Dame Edna Everage, past butts in, saying: "Oh wonderful, hold 'til you spot his home."

Trump responds "it's beautiful", suggesting helium had been determination successful the past. The MailOnline reports helium visited Al-Fayed's location successful 1983 and 1988.

A full of 421 women person present travel guardant with allegations against Al Fayed, and lawyers person warned that volition spark a flood of further complaints implicit the precocious Harrods tycoon’s behaviour. Former unit assertion they were sexually abused oregon raped by Al Fayed, who owned the store from 1985 to 2010.

Justice for Harrods Survivors said determination were besides allegations from Fulham FC and The Ritz successful Paris, which helium besides controlled.

Three alleged victims, Gemma, Lindsay and Jen, were astatine a London property ­conference led by lawyer Dean Armstrong KC yesterday, who said the radical had £1billion to combat cases.

He added: “The archetypal missive of assertion has been sent to Harrods. That is the opening of the ceremonial ineligible process. It’ll beryllium followed contiguous by different and it’ll beryllium followed the time aft by others, and it’ll beryllium followed by hundreds more.

“This is the clearest awesome imaginable that it is clip for Harrods, the Fayed property and Fulham FC amongst others to recognize that present is the clip to bash the close thing.”