Harrods vs Al Fayed: Can London’s most famous shop survive its Jimmy Savile moment?

The documentary’s line of enquiry, “Did the luxury store protect a billionaire predator?”, sent the Qatari state-owned Harrods Ltd executives, who bought one of the UK’s most prized possessions from Al Fayed for £1.5 billion in 2010, into panic. In it, 20 ex-Harrods employees detail how they were sexually assaulted or raped by Al Fayed, who sauntered through his store cherry-picking victims as young as 15, and later attacked them in various locations including his Park Lane apartment, the Ritz Paris, which he also owned, as well as Villa Windsor, the former home of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson, which he spent £12m refurbishing in order to get closer to the royal family — something he ultimately succeeded in doing, both himself, and via his son Dodi, who died in the crash with Princess Diana as they left the Ritz Paris in 1997.