Are powerful men still getting away with abuse? The allegations against billionaire Harrods tycoon Mohamed Al Fayed go back to the late 1980s, but none of his alleged victims saw justice in his lifetime.
The women rewriting a monster’s story
Speaking out: Lindsay, Jen, Katherine, Gemma and Nicole spoke to BBC Breakfast about their experiences working for Fayed, whose son Dodi died in a car crash alongside Princess Diana in 1997. Glossary
Mohamed Al Fayed - An Egyptian billionaire businessman who owned the Ritz in Paris and Harrods department store in the UK. He died in 2023.
KC - King's Counsel — a title given to barristers and solicitors (types of lawyers) in the UK.
Jimmy Savile - A British media personality who died in 2011 aged 84. After he died hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse were made against him.
Jeffrey Epstein - He was a financier arrested in July 2019 on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking. He was denied bail ahead of his trail and died while in jail. His death has been officially ruled a suicide by the New York City medical examiner, though a pathologist hired by Epstein's brother claims it may have been a murder.
Harvey Weinstein - A US film producer who is currently in prison after being found guilty of rape. Accusations against him sparked the global #MeToo movement in 2017, in which woman spoke out against sexual abuse and harassment.
Metropolitan Police - The name of London's police force.
Diddy - An American rapper born in 1969.
Gisele Pelicot - A French woman whose husband has admitted to drugging her and inviting dozens of men to abuse her without her knowledge. She has waived her right to anonymity.