12 Facts About Dodi Fayed

Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Mena'em Fayed, better known as Dodi Fayed, was an Egyptian film producer and the son of billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed.

Dodi Fayed was the romantic partner of Diana, Princess of Wales, when they both were killed in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997.

Dodi Fayed's father was the former owner of Fulham Football Club and the Hotel Ritz Paris.

Dodi Fayed's mother was Saudi Arabian author Samira Khashoggi, the daughter of Muhammad Khashoggi and sister of Saudi billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.

Dodi Fayed was a student at College Saint Marc before attending the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland.

Dodi Fayed was the first cousin of the late Washington Post Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was assassinated in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2018.

In July 1997, Dodi Fayed became romantically involved with Diana, Princess of Wales.

Fisher subsequently said Dodi Fayed jilted her for Diana and announced that she was filing a breach of contract suit against him, saying he had "led her emotionally all the way up to the altar and abandoned her when they were almost there," and that he "threw her love away in a callous way with no regard for her whatsoever".

Dodi Fayed was pronounced dead at the scene on his removal from the wreckage.

Dodi Fayed was originally interred in Brookwood Cemetery near Woking, Surrey, but was re-interred on the grounds of the Dodi Fayed estate in Oxted, Surrey in October 1997.

Dodi Fayed's father erected two memorials to his son and Diana at Harrods.

The first, unveiled on 12 April 1998, consists of photos of them behind a pyramid-shaped display containing a wine glass still smudged with lipstick from Diana's final dinner, and a ring Dodi Fayed purchased the day before they died.