A string of Ghislaine Maxwell-style female ‘super-enablers’ assisted Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed during his decades-long abuse of women and girls, it was revealed yesterday.
Keaton Stone – a journalist who spearheaded a six-year investigation into Fayed – said he had amassed evidence against the women who allegedly helped his vile abuse, who could still face justice.
Police believe the former Harrods owner, who died last year aged 94, may have raped and abused at least 111 women and girls over almost 40 years, including a victim who was only 13 years old.
Scotland Yard are investigating the role of at least five potential ‘facilitators’ as part of a wide-ranging review that is also looking at historical police corruption allegations.
Mr Stone said he had the names of dozens of such ‘enablers’, and compared their role to shamed socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who groomed and procured girls for billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
Mr Stone, 45, an independent investigative TV producer, told the Mail: ‘There are a hell of a lot of “Ghislaine Maxwells” involved, his female super-enablers. They’re going to have their moment in the spotlight – and there are others who I think believe they have got away with it.
‘There are certain names which appear overwhelmingly in the women’s testimonies. The evidence is stacking up.’
Mr Stone has investigated Fayed since his then-fiancée, now wife, Sophia, revealed she was sexually assaulted by the former Harrods boss while working as his personal assistant.
Mohamed Al Fayed died in August at the age of 94, with police dropping a sexual assault case against him in 2020 after he was deemed unfit to face charges
Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of press baron Robert Maxwell, pictured with billionaire predator Jeffrey Epstein
Three of the women who came forward in the investigation into Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed
Police now believe Mr Al Fayed may have raped and abused at least 111 women and girls over almost 40 years, including a victim who was only 13 years old
Ghislaine Maxwell groomed and procured girls for Jeffrey Epstein – and it is alleged that there are dozens of such ‘enablers’ in the Al Fayed case too
A mugshot of Ghislaine Maxwell, taken at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn, in 2022
She went to police in 2020 and gave a 31-page statement, but was later told the sexual assault case was being dropped because Fayed was said to be unfit to face charges.
The couple were horrified the case was closed and Mr Stone sought out other women subjected to similar ordeals. More than 400 women have contacted the Justice for Harrods Survivors team.
Lawyers for the women sent the first legal letter of claim to Harrods this month, and their barrister Bruce Drummond said hundreds more such letters would follow.
Mr Stone compiled a dossier of evidence that led to the BBC documentary, Al Fayed, A Predator at Harrods.
He learnt the abuse was not limited to the Knightsbridge department store, but extended throughout Fayed’s businesses and personal empire, including his Park Lane residences, his Surrey mansion, the Ritz Hotel in Paris, Fulham Football Club and on board his private plane and yacht.
The scale of the allegations raises serious questions over how his conduct went unchecked, despite the Metropolitan Police seeking advice from the Crown Prosecution Service over charging him. He was never charged with any sexual offence.
A file of evidence was passed to the CPS in 2015 but it was deemed not to have passed the legal threshold for charges to be brought.
÷ Anyone affected should contact the Justice for Harrods Survivors Team at harrodssurvivors.com or Mr Stone on X @keatonstone
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