![]() ![]() United Kingdom Early business dealings Wax sculpture of Mohammed Al-Fayed, Madame Tussauds, London, July 2009įayed and his brothers founded a shipping company in Egypt before moving its headquarters to Genoa, Italy with offices in London.Īround 1964, Fayed entered a close relationship with Haitian leader François Duvalier, known as 'Papa Doc', and became interested in the construction of a Fayed-Duvalier oil refinery in Haiti. This assumption led to Private Eye magazine nicknaming him the "Phoney Pharaoh". Some have assumed that Fayed's addition of "Al-" to his name was to imply aristocratic origins, like "de" in French or "von" in German, though Al- does not have the same social connotations in Arabic. His brothers Ali and Salah followed suit at the time of their acquisition of the House of Fraser in the 1980s, though by the late 1980s, both had reverted to calling themselves simply "Fayed". Sometime in the early 1970s, he began using "Al-Fayed" rather than "Fayed". He worked with his wife's brother, Saudi Arabian arms dealer and businessman Adnan Khashoggi. įayed was married from 1954 to 1956 to Samira Khashoggi. ![]() His brothers Ali and Salah have been his business colleagues. The website was changed from "1933" to "1929" in 2011. His website,, used to claim he was born in 1933, but the Department of Trade found his year of birth was 1929. In 1985, Fayed married Finnish socialite and former model Heini Wathén with whom he has four children: Jasmine, Karim, Camilla, and Omar.įayed was born in Roshdy, Alexandria, Egypt, the eldest son of an Egyptian primary school teacher from Asyut. Dodi was in a romantic relationship with Diana, Princess of Wales, when they both died in a car crash in Paris in 1997. įayed was married to Samira Khashoggi from 1954 to 1956, and had a son Dodi. In November 2022, Fayed's wealth was estimated at US$1.9 billion, ranking his wealth at no. His business interests include ownership of Hôtel Ritz Paris and formerly Harrods department store and Fulham F.C., both in London. Mohamed Al-Fayed ( / æ l f aɪ ˈ ɛ d/ Egyptian Arabic: محمد الفايد born 27 January 1929) is an Egyptian businessman whose residence and chief business interests have been in the United Kingdom since the late 1960s. ![]()
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