Mohamed Al-Fayed is an Egyptian-born businessman whose residence and chief business interests have been in the United Kingdom since the late 1960s.
20 Facts About Mohamed Al-Fayed
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Mohamed Al-Fayed worked with his wife's brother, Saudi Arabian arms dealer and businessman Adnan Khashoggi.
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Mohamed Al-Fayed became a financial adviser to the then Sultan of Brunei Omar Ali Saifuddien III in 1966.
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Mohamed Al-Fayed re-launched the humorous magazine Punch in 1996 but it folded again in 2002.
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Mohamed Al-Fayed unsuccessfully applied for British citizenship twice, in 1994 and 1999.
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The former MP has always denied that he was paid by Mohamed Al-Fayed for asking questions in Parliament.
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Mohamed Al-Fayed moored a yacht called the Sokar in Monaco prior to selling it in 2014.
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From an initial 4.8 hectares, Mohamed Al-Fayed has since built the estate up to 26,300 hectares.
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In 1998, Mohamed Al-Fayed bought Princess Diana's old boarding school in Kent and helped found the New School at West Heath for children with additional needs and mental health problems.
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Mohamed Al-Fayed then donated the statue to the National Football Museum.
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In July 2013, it was announced that Mohamed Al-Fayed had sold the club to Pakistani American businessman Shahid Khan, who owns the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars.
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From February 1998, Mohamed Al-Fayed maintained that the crash was a result of a conspiracy, and later contended that the crash was orchestrated by MI6 on the instructions of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
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Mohamed Al-Fayed's claims were dismissed by a French judicial investigation, but Fayed appealed the verdict.
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Mohamed Al-Fayed first claimed that the Princess was pregnant to the Daily Express in May 2001, and that he was the only person who had been told.
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Lawyers representing Mohamed Al-Fayed later accepted at the inquest that there was no direct evidence that neither the Duke of Edinburgh nor MI6 was involved in any murder conspiracy involving Diana or Dodi.
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Mohamed Al-Fayed's admissions related to the lack of evidence for Al-Fayed's claims of the Princess's pregnancy and the couple's engagement.
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Mohamed Al-Fayed's lawyers accepted that there was no evidence to support the assertion that Diana was illegally embalmed to conceal pregnancy, or that a pregnancy could be confirmed by any medical evidence.
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Journalist Dominic Lawson wrote in The Independent in 2008 that Al-Fayed sought to concoct "a conspiracy to cover up the true circumstances" of fatalities caused by the crash "involving an intoxicated and over-excited driver ".
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Mohamed Al-Fayed financially supported Unlawful Killing, a documentary film presenting his version of events.
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The programme alleged Mohamed Al-Fayed targeted young employees over a 13-year period.