The Egyptian tycoon and former owner of the Harrods department store and the Ritz Hotel in Paris, Mohamed Al-Fayed, has passed away at the age of 94as has been advanced The Daily Mail. According to the aforementioned media, the also ex-owner of Fulham died last Thursday, coinciding with the 26th anniversary of the death of Diana de Gales and her son after a tragic accident in Paris while escaping from a group of photographers.
“Everyone at Fulham was incredibly saddened to learn of the death of our former owner and chairman, Mohamed Al Fayed. We owe a debt of gratitude to Mohamed for what he did for our Club, and our thoughts now are with his family and friends at this dark time,” reads the English team’s farewell message.
The empire of Mohamed Al-Fayed
The billionaire, born in Alexandria, landed in the British archipelago in the 1960s to increase his fortune. The big chain store House of Fraserowned by Harrods and the Ritz Hotel in Paris, it was his first major acquisition for more than 600 million euros. In 2010, Al Fayed sold this business to the Royal Family of Qatar for 1,500 million euros.
dody’s deathhis son, when he was traveling with Lady Di was the trigger for which the tycoon broke off his relations with the British gentry due to the lack of attention from the Royal Family of the archipelago. He also extended his empire with the purchase of Fulham, from the Premier League. In 2022, Forbes magazine noted that the amount of his fortune amounted to 2,000 million dollars.
As for his private life, The Egyptian tycoon said ‘I do’ with Heini Wathén in 1985 after divorcing the writer and editor, Samira Jashogyi. A marriage that was consolidated with the arrival of their five children, Jasmine, Karim, Camilla, Omar and Dodi, Diana’s partner from Wales.
