I was 18, Al Fayed was 75 when he groped me and pinned me to wall… it still makes me sick, says Harrods worker victim

A TEENAGE unfortunate of enactment predator Mohamed Fayed has revealed she inactive feels sick implicit being groped by the OAP tycoon earlier helium flung wads of currency astatine her.

Danielle Motileb was conscionable 18 erstwhile she was pushed against the partition by the 75-year-old fiend successful his Harrods office — successful what she present believes was an effort to rape her.

She yesterday revealed the terrifying onslaught — successful which Fayed said helium wanted to beryllium her fellow — was the culmination of a signifier of regular intersexual maltreatment she suffered portion moving astatine the posh store.

Danielle, present a 41-year-old mum of two, joined Harrods successful 2003 arsenic a income assistant.

At her location successful Hemel Hempstead, Herts, she revealed to The Sun connected Sunday astir her harrowing experiences at the hands of the billionaire beast.

She said Fayed, who died past twelvemonth aged 94, demanded she went to his lavish bureau each Friday day wherever helium would motorboat his perverse attacks connected her, groping her breasts and sticking his lingua into her mouth.

Danielle said: “It makes maine sick to deliberation astir what helium did to me.

“I was recruited truthful that helium could battle me. They lone employed beauteous young girls.

“His Friday day regular was good known. He called america up to his bureau and he’d commencement disconnected by saying we looked a spot scruffy.

“But we didn’t, we were each astute successful the store.

“He’d past interaction our uniform. He’d stroke connected apical of our shirts and past he’d compression our breasts.

“Then he’d get retired a wad of cash, it would each beryllium £50 notes, and he’d springiness it to us. I cognize it sounds atrocious but it was hard not to instrumentality it due to the fact that helium was truthful powerful.

“The information he’d usually person a fewer of america determination made it consciousness a spot safer oregon much normal, I guess?

“It is hard to deliberation astir now, it has been a agelong clip and I had tried to determination connected but I consciousness fortunate that I managed to escape.”

Danielle, who worked for a twelvemonth astatine Harrods successful Knightsbridge, West London, began to physically shingle arsenic she recalled the past clip she was called to Fayed’s lair.

She said: “I retrieve it was 1 of the smaller rooms successful his office.

“It was unusual due to the fact that usually I was with the different girls, but this clip helium had called down to inquire the manager to nonstop maine alone.

“I said to my manager, ‘Is anyone other coming?’. But she said, ‘No, helium wants to spot you’. My humor ran cold. The office was dark. It was each aged woody polished furniture.

“He was astir 75 and helium was rather a tiny man. He stood determination and the doorway was closed.

“Then helium said, ‘I privation to beryllium your boyfriend’. I said, ‘No, I already person a boyfriend. I don’t privation you to beryllium my boyfriend’.

“He said helium would instrumentality attraction of maine and supply for me. But I said, ‘No I don’t privation that’. He started to travel towards maine and helium grabbed clasp of me. I started to panic past and I felt precise scared.

“He pushed maine against the partition and helium stuck his lingua close down my throat. It was disgusting.

“I shouted for him to get disconnected me. And I ran retired of there.

“Now I perceive astir what helium did to the different women, I deliberation helium would person raped maine that day.

“If I hadn’t been truthful vocal and pushed him distant — it is scary.

“God knows what that would person done to maine and my life. But aft that, I ne'er went backmost to the office. I conscionable refused to go. Whenever the brag came down, helium ignored me.

“We were each conscionable disposable toys. He was the king and helium did what helium wanted. He was untouchable.”

Danielle besides told however she had witnessed Fayed’s “favourite” girls being taken to a posh edifice adjacent and fixed cars and handbags.

Asked wherefore she had stayed soundless until now, she explained: “I conjecture the aforesaid crushed we each did, we were frightened and helium was powerful. No 1 believed america anyway.”

Her telling of her experiences comes arsenic hundreds of women travel forward.

Lawyers confirmed they person had much than 150 enquiries from imaginable victims since the BBC2 documentary Al-Fayed: Predator astatine Harrods past week exposed him arsenic a serial enactment attacker.

On Friday, survivors’ lawyers said Fayed was a monster whose web of maltreatment was enabled by Harrods.

They warned his 25-year reign of panic towards unit could beryllium “one of the worst cases of firm intersexual exploitation the satellite has ever seen”.

Around 30 survivors packed into a property league astatine Kent House, adjacent the section store.

Lawyers said Fayed carried retired rapes, intersexual assaults and maltreatment of minors connected a shocking scale.

Many women who came guardant were angered by a favourable portrayal of the billionaire successful Netflix’s The Crown.

His lad Dodi dated Princess Diana earlier they some died successful a Paris car smash successful 1997.

It was said helium could person carried retired attacks astatine places including the Ritz edifice successful Paris, which helium bought successful 1979, and Fulham FC, owned by him from 1997 to 2013.

The Egyptian tycoon took the honorific rubric “Al” erstwhile helium came to the UK successful the 1960s contempt having nary close to it.

Harrods, which helium owned from 1985 to 2010, claimed it did not cognize of the maltreatment allegations until 2023 but barrister Dean Armstrong said this was “simply not true”.

He added: “We person investigated a immense web of abuse.

Vast web of abuse

“Mohammed Al-Fayed was a monster but helium was a monster enabled by a strategy that pervaded Harrods. This lawsuit combines immoderate of the astir horrific elements of the cases involving Jimmy Savile, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein.

“Savile due to the fact that successful this lawsuit arsenic successful that, the institution, we say, knew astir the behaviour.

“Epstein, due to the fact that successful that lawsuit arsenic successful this determination was a procurement strategy successful spot to root women and girls — determination are immoderate precise young victims successful this — for abuse.

“And Weinstein due to the fact that it was a idiosyncratic astatine the precise apical of the organisation abusing his power.

“Our purpose is to question justness for the survivors of the intersexual abuse.

“Al-Fayed was enabled by an unsafe strategy of enactment which ­Harrods established, maintained, acquiesced to and facilitated during his chairmanship.

“The strategy not lone enabled but perchance allowed the wide intersexual maltreatment of the survivors.” Lawyers said Fayed would nonstop young victims for invasive aesculapian checks with results fed backmost to him.
US lawyer Gloria Allred, different subordinate of the ineligible team. said:

“We’re looking for justness for the victims of Mohamed Al-Fayed.

“He’s not conscionable a monster, he’s a intersexual predator. He had a scheme, a plan, a plan to enlistee his targets that helium wanted to sexually abuse.

“One was conscionable buying with their parent successful Harrods erstwhile helium saw her — 14 years aged — and helium went up to her, offered her employment astatine Harrods.

“He did what helium did to galore victims, to galore helium raped them oregon attempted to rape them.

Widespread abuse

Lindsay Mason, aged 20 erstwhile she was recruited to enactment astatine Harrods arsenic a PA for Fayed, told The Sun however she fought him disconnected successful lad Dodi’s luxury Paris apartment successful 1989 erstwhile helium tried to rape her.

Gemma, 42, was hired arsenic Fayed’s elder PA erstwhile she was 24. She revealed he threw a lobster astatine her successful beforehand of popular prima Cheryl Tweedy and footballer Ashley Cole — past a joined mates — arsenic she did not speech capable astatine meal connected his yacht.

And Katherine, present 51, who was hired to enactment arsenic a elder PA successful 2005, told however Fayed repeatedly ripped the buttons of her blouse earlier she was sacked astatine the extremity of her probation play aft managing to conflict retired of his attacks.

There are present calls for Harrods bosses to beryllium questioned implicit immoderate imaginable collusion. Store officials said they were “utterly appalled by the allegations of abuse” and that they were “the actions of an idiosyncratic who was intent connected abusing his powerfulness wherever helium operated”.

Sources accidental Harrods has reached settlements with the immense bulk of alleged victims who person approached the steadfast since 2023.