Al Fayed, Predator at Harrods: 2. Executive suite

World Of Secrets

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Sophia is working in Harrods and is spotted by Mohamed Al Fayed. She’s handed an incredible career opportunity. Soon she moves to work with her billionaire boss in his executive suite. Not everything is as it seems.

On the shop floor, Mohamed Al Fayed is known for the way he makes a dramatic entrance, flanked by security guards. “He’s coming, he’s coming”, staff call out, as they spring to attention. Celebrity customers in the 1990s, like pop superstar Michael Jackson are shopping in the store.

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0:46.0	There was like a phone system that would go along and like he's coming he's coming
0:56.0	it's coming it's coming it's coming. It's
0:57.4	It's 1996 were inside London's iconic shopping destination, Harroids in in the upmarket Knightsbridge District.
1:06.0	Department manager Tony Leaming is standing in a garish room with hieroglyphs on the
1:11.2	walls and gold-painted sphinxes, some with the face with
1:13.8	the with the face of the shop's owner, billionaire businessman Mohammed Alfired. the phone is ring is coming is coming. Tony's job is to make sure everything runs smoothly in the Egyptian hall.
1:27.0	In many ways the spiritual heart of Althaids Harads.
1:31.0	And when his boss comes down from the executive office to inspect the shop floor, he knows one thing.
1:37.0	He must act fast.
1:39.0	He puts down the phone and gives the order.
1:42.9	Light the incense.
1:45.1	It was highly expensive.
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