HE swore he would never sell — but he did. This weekend, Mohamed al-Fayed, who pledged to stay at Harrods until he died, agreed to sell the Knightsbridge department store to the royal family of Qatar for more than £1.5 billion. Fayed, 81, sold the company to the rulers of Qatar, the tiny Gulf...
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Foreword In the article published in September 1995 by the US Magazine Vanity Fair, author Maureen Orth describes Mohamed Al Fayed’s theft of $150,000 from the Port au Prince harbour authority of Haiti. Three years after Orth’s piece the Daily Telegraph Magazine published this article, written by two North American-based journalists and drawn from...
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