According to consistent media reports, Mohamed Al-Fayed has died at the age of 94.
The former owner of the London department store “Harrods” was the father of Dodi Al-Fayed, who was involved in a car accident in 1997 Princess Diana († 36) died.
the in Egyptian Alexandria (5.2 million inhabitants) Born billionaire, he first worked as a Coca-Cola street vendor, sewing machine salesman and teacher. He became rich when he married into the Khashoggi family of arms dealers and got a leading position in a Saudi import company. His son Dodi Al-Fayed came from his marriage to his wife Samira.
Billionaire owned football club, hotel & department store
Mohamed Al-Fayed was also the owner of the Ritz Hotel in Paris and the London football club FC Fulham (1996 to 2013). In Britain it was considered controversial. He dedicated his interesting life Netflix hit “The Crown” even an entire episode.
The entrepreneur in front of the Fulham FC clubhouse
Ever since Al-Fayed lived in England, he had always wanted to become a British citizen. Interior ministers from various parties repeatedly rejected this.
Because: For them, the entrepreneur had no exemplary character and acted with opaque business methods. Al-Fayed tried unsuccessfully in court to obtain the British passport.
Lobby scandal caused naturalization to fail
The reason for his defeat is said to have been his involvement in a scandal. In 1994, Al-Fayed hired a lobbying organization to bribe two conservative MPs. They should have weighed heavily on ministers with questions in the House of Commons that allegedly stood in the way of the billionaire’s naturalization application.
After his first marriage, the entrepreneur married the former Finnish beauty queen Heini Wathén (68). The couple had four children. Most recently, Mohamed Al-Fayed lived in Monaco.
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