Vanessa Feltz reveals 'horrifying' experience with Mohamed Al Fayed | LBC
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Vanessa Feltz reveals how Mohamed Al Fayed acted with 'increasing impatience and anger' after she refused his advances at a bar mitzvah.
She recalls how the disgraced Harrods boss 'didn't back off' despite her repeatedly declining his offer.
At least 150 more women have come forward with sexual assault claims against Mohamed Al Fayed since a press conference was held on Friday, a lawyer for alleged victims has told LBC.
Dean Armstrong KC told LBC's Matthew Wright that he was expecting more women to come forward with claims against the late billionaire and former Harrods owner.
They were already representing 37 women, meaning there are now around 190 women making claims against Al Fayed.
Mr Armstrong said: "We're already signed up with 37 - we have overnight, certainly in excess of 150 more who have contacted us - we're anticipating that it will be more than that."
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We want Sangita back.
She'll get another platform in time.
Mehdi should bring her to Zeteo
what happened to her and why did she leave
Best thing I've read for months
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It shook me when Vanessa said it could be an estate agent it could be anybody. I am 82 years old now but when I was a young teenager I went to work for an estate agents. It was a small company in Holborn London. The two bosses who were a married couple only came in about twice a week and had a young manager. He was married, made passes and outright asked me to have a baby by him. It was a horrible situation and when I refused he got me sacked from the job by telling the bosses I was not co-operative in my work. I told the bosses the truth and also told them how he was sexually harassing a temporary worker. It was clear they believed me but I was more dispensable than him. I can truly appreciate the fear young women must have felt in such a terrible situation.
I also knew at the time of police corruption where police were taking bribes and lying concerning a family situation. Money has power.
So sorry to hear of your experience.
Can I ask what decade this all happened??
@@djhonz45 1961
@@elizabethgrainger4861 Thank you for telling your story 🫶🏻
For the love of money is the root of all evil
Godspeed to you Elizabeth.
Women DID complain, but were silenced or threatened. And as we all know a woman against a very rich man cannot win?
@@andreer-k6136 you’re telling us there is not justice in Europe
They must of got discount of boxes of tea bags and tins of biscuits 😮 and Harrods teddy bears 🐻😮
All 100 of them?
Its all lies.
@GraemeWight-wx3xz multiple women have come forward over the last 25 years ,most of them were very young and in their teens when he assaulted them . Women decades apart. The youngest was just 15. Think about the women and girls in your life . Would you think they were lying? A rich ,powerful man is able to protect himself and surround himself with people who will keep his nasty secrets for him ,people who look the other way if they are paid enough. If you watch the documentary, it isn't testimony from the victims alone (although that should be enough). Management at Harrods,security men, and people close to him on his payroll finally speak up. It happened in Harrods, in hotels he owned, in the villa in France. He wasn't an eccentric maverick who or a charming genial employer. He was a predator, a monster who abused his power and position in a tale as old as time .
In America they would vote him president 😮
Haha Ha
Well yes , they did vote Joe and his VP in even after it was known of their respective treatments of a certain minority in the US , many jailed for a long long time unjustifiably..
Biden is a joke.
@@chocaholicsanonAs usual theyve hidden comments ... yours and mine !! If you go top left and click newest 1st you'll see all 6 actual comments including ours instead of the 3 they show . Hope this is of use to you
Child abusers too I understand
This women knew saville and al fayed were doing this and said nothing. Horrible woman protecting her career..anything she says now is hypocritical
100% agree with you.
So it is!
So his unsuccessful long long fight for a British passport makes sense now ....
Did he ever get it?
@@deborahkildare9651 Nope ...he was never going to get 1 , which mystified everyone considering just about everyone that applies gets 1 these days
@@meichong8278 I think Diana was advised to stay away. MI5 and M16 were probably on to him. If only she had listened.
@@meichong8278 with his money, why dud he need one? He as a country to honour
@@meichong8278 maybe the powers be knew something.
Vanessa looks bored and uninterested during this debate, but then she is one of the worst presenters around . She was so traumatized by her own experience with Al Fayed that she couldn't remember it... And check out how cuts people off during interviews with them...Bog off Feltz you need replacing.
That's what botox does
I don’t line Vanessa as a presenter. Vanessa lies sometimes too. Why talking I’ll if Fated badly now that he’s gone. Go away Vanessa.
@@lydiabarber8931and she accused Harris after he was dead.
I have never liked this woman who thinks she is a celebrity although she see herself as one. She is always trying her best to stay relevant and gets herself involved in so many situations She is deluded if she thinks men would make a pass at her. Get real.
Might have caused that meltdown she had in the Big Brother house… yeah, right.
I worked in harrods for a while and yes I saw the racism . Gross man
Vanessa Feltz is horrifying
Bring back the competent intelligent journalist Sangita Myska.
Please 🙏 🙏
She’s a liar! 🤮
@@Mel87y
I totally agree with you 👍
Feltz is a complete liar.
Get over it. You can always watch something else.
@brianferguson7840 So she declined advances from Al Fayed and has alleged Rolf Harris her lifted her skirt ?
No.
Vanessa Feltz is not known for being a shrinking violet so why did she never speak about this before? It’s easy to speak out when the accused is dead and can’t defend himself.
You think he could defend himself? You clearly don't understand the impact on women
@@barbarap6201 my point here perhaps no phrased correctly is that had high profile victims such as Vanessa come forward when this happened other victims would have too and Al Fayed would have had to go through the courts and face the rigours of justice if found guilty. This cannot happen now and nobody gets justice really. In no way was my comment meant to minimise the impact on the women concerned.
@@jimhughes2641 ok I hear you. But they were seriously threatened at the time. Can you understand their fear?
@@barbarap6201 of course I can given the power and influence AlFayed had.
In my life I have come very close to the "wealthy elite ".
My girlfriend at the time (1990/96) was a P.P.S. in chief to a Arab sheikh , she was English blond beautiful and young.
Her duties included arranging world wide visits to the very highest events including U.S. presidential inorgerations.
One of the duties was to supply women for,
'entertainment' on these trips.
I was uncomfortable with this part of her job then one day she told me she had been sexually assaulted by a one of her bosses cousins.
I tried to persuade her to report it to the police but she declined because she was on a mouth watering salary car and huge flat in Kensington.
I could not get her to see that this was criminal but I understood why.
This is so deep and I am so proud that these women are being heard finally.
The real question now is whether anything will be done but trust me l know what is being said is true .
Remember Jill Dando.
Johnnie Llewellyn U.K.
sounds like she was doing a ghislaine maxwell to me , then when she allegedly got a taste of the medicine failed to report it because of a love of money was more important
I have seen the film...Taken.
Everyone has gone quiet on Russell Brand,,,,, very strange
Persona non grata.
He Ain't Dead! So Not An Easy Target!
Because he is innocent
Yea cos brand is innocent. Accusations tend to happen to people who become popular and speak out against certain things. Easiest way is things that are difficult to prove.
@@laoch5658🤡
So why didn’t she say anything? His behaviour could have been revealed when he was still alive and he could have been punished.
Bit naive
You have no idea, do you? Or do you and it's victim blaming as per usual?
A few years ago she claimed Rolf Harris had 'touched' her on live TV.... go figure
@@hypatia4754what she couldn’t come out of on air and ask for other victims
Because they were terrified of him. He threatened not only them but their families too. It's easy to judge when you aren't in that situation.
At least “Diddy” got caught before he passed 🤣
The dead can't defened himself. What a suprise all the allegation coming out now.
Can't understand why these women let this happen,why did they not leave.🤔
Of course soon they may ask for compensation 😂
He was being protected in his life and money talks, people tried to bring it into the public domain he was being investigated by the met what a disgusting man shame on you
RiyadKan-t7r@@RiyadKan-t7rboooooooo to you
How true,
Ms Feltz doesn't exactly exude gravitas in light of such appalling stories of abuse, does she?
Vanessa said nothing 🥺really? I am struggling to understand why she chose to stay quiet until he passed away 😮! Really? She isn’t usually that quiet about certain issues!
After the Philip Scofield scandal came out, she said there is a prominent man in TV who is a known abuser, but didn't name them.
Can't shut her up when she's supporting Israhell.
I would take her story with a huge pinch of salt 😊
Too right. She has a duty to do so. Infuriates me.
Fear maybe
Find it very hard to believe Vanessa. Sorry.
Accusations are meaningless when the accused is dead and cannot fight back.
Meaningless?
Savile?
The women were unable to fight when he was alive. They would have been immediately silenced.
they are after money from Harrods, Fayed would likely have fought back so even better without him
Money to be had now he cannot defend himself
People in the comments are suspicious at Vanessa mentioning this now, as if it is not true. I am older than Vanessa and I don’t know any woman who has not had men expose themselves to her and harassed them sexually and in the 60s and 70s, groping was considered normal and women being sacked, because they didn’t go along with it was just part of life, and you didn’t mention it unless someone said it happened to them and you said oh him, yes, me too.
My opinion. A heck of a lot of females are giving males these false messages. Also young males upbringing.
bring back Sangitia
CPS failed to prosecute twice when he was alive.
And our current UK Prime Minister was the Director of Public Prosecutions…
This all happened when he was 70 something- by which I conclude that he was a very lucky bloke to be able to get it up when facing an unwilling partner.
This causes me to hear these reports with a modicum of scepticism.
Bring Sangita back...
Banessa feltz doesnt seem like the person who would of held this in for deacdes. Sjes jasnt been relevant on montjs hasnt been on lbc for ahes and all of a sudden she was attacked by fayed? Rather convenient she remembers and wants to talk about now. Wjy dodnt sje speak up sooner. Dont believe her bit believe the others
She’s lying
Yet she didn't complain at the time. Only 'brave' now he's a corpse. Ffs
Yes. People don't generally make these things up for career development though.
@@ScruffyTubblesBandwagon Jumper!
@jeffsavage5720 I was being cynical.
Because she was afraid of him when he was alive obviously.
It's all about the scraping a career in useless media
She always appears as a victim when these things come out 🤔
😂😂
So true
She wasn't making herself out to be a victim,she merely recalled an incident that many many woman have in their lives but shrug off an then later find out that this was their modus operandi and as the lawyer said the other womn were much younger,his employees and embarassed and ashamed.These stories are all too typical with predatory men and many woman brush them off until later in life onviously relaise what was happening and how it was not just a one off.
Men like MOhammed operate in this way all the time and many women have had such encounters with similar men.
They need to be called out and women should be safe from this kind of predatory behaviour and popele like you accusing them of being victims will not help.
What's the point? He's gone and he's not much different than prince Andrew, all the same
Harrods have accepted responsibility.
And that's the point 🤔🤔🤔
Al Fayed when he took on British establishment they hated it! Suddenly when he is dead and can't speak for himself they devour making lies about him
Prince andrew forced himself on no one
Proof of Vanessa's alleged "experience"? Throwing accusations at a dead man is wild!
A dead person can not defend himself, why the wait !!!
What about just say no,it was all about money.🙄
So why not say these things when he was alive. It's alright calling these people "brave," but they could have stopped him doing it to other people.
Get a grip
@@alanadair4893it’s a reasonable question..perhaps you should “get a grip”!
See also Jimmy Savile
People did call him out when he was alive.
@@davidwilliamsdavi to his other employees who clearly didn't have enough guts to call him out either.
Omg. Man in position of power abuses that power. Who saw that coming!?
If it’s true story about Alfayed why not be published till a year after his death makes you surprise
Why is this just coming out now????? He is dead so why did no allegedly victim come forward earlier to get justice as deserved
I feel like I’m reeling with all these stories about these male monsters. It’s been one after the other and it’s sickening and makes me feel so incredibly vulnerable. We have a huge responsibility to teach our sons better. To those awful men who are thinking they’re getting away with it, not for much longer, you are going to made to answer for the despicable way you treat women and make them feel. To the decent men, there is a responsibility on you to call out indecent behaviour from your friends/coworkers/acquaintances/family. This scourge needs to be stopped.
All of a sudden celebrities are speaking up now...Wdh!!
Al Fayed when he took on British establishment they hated it! Suddenly when he is dead and can't speak for himself they devour making lies about him
🤔 money.
Even Stevie wonder wouldn't make a move on Vanessa 😅
😅😅😅
@khalzo7804. How low is it possible to sink? We’ve really lost it now that comments like that should see the light of day.. No wonder this monster kept getting away with it. Look at us.
Nor His Guide Dog!
😂
You just have to hear her let alone see her to run a mile
Vanessa jumping on the bandwagon again! She needs to go.
Vanessa the man is dead!! He’s not alive to defend himself
Have the BBC, The Guardian, C4 or Sky News admitted he's a Muslim yet? 😆
I worked in harrods back in1990 to 1992 in the beauty industry!
Wen i was 20, everyone one thought he was a nice guy back then ! He always smiled and waved at us wen he did his walk abouts around the department s!
Very 😲
Thought the establishment hated him because he bought Harrods.
Bought under a cloud with dodgy money under Tiny Rowland 's nose.
Didn't pay off the right people.
Why now? Is this news suggested by Israel 😂
Because he is dead.
Watch the BBC documentary he went for very young ladies. VF well out of the monsters age group. She was 42 in 2002. Has she made a formal complaint to the police?! The poor women did try and push the monster off. VF should be ashamed of herself in making this about herself.
he liked young ladies , and young ladies liked his money
Vanessa's recollection of events, involving Mohammed Al Fayed show the effect, and differences in treatment, depending on the power disparity at play. Obviously, MAF was an incredibly wealthy man, who was accustomed to manipulating and imposing his will (particularly, noted by other accounts, on pretty, blonde women); however, on this occasion, despite his best efforts, Vanessa Feltz had enough power; as a wealthy, married woman, and media star, in her own right, that she could still rebuff him. I dread to think what occurred to 19 year old nail techs and make up artists; cornered at a staff party...
If fayed was not dead accusing him of coming onto feltz would have made him croak
He was renowned for loving young blondes - he called them 'English roses' - his office was full of them.
He did not forced them they were willing
@@gonagona9943 have you actually LISTENED to this and what’s been said !!!
Diana and the boys in his company. Vile
@@gonagona9943Good to have an eye witness on board
He was hetero by the sound of things. Shame on him
Private Eye magazine exposed this behaviour back in the day
A truly horrifying experience. Man hits on women. Women says no and walks away.
Al Fayed when he took on British establishment they hated it! Suddenly when he is dead and can't speak for himself they devour making lies about him
Feltz was at 9/11 in New York if it could get her extra listeners.
@@johnmalone7913
On 9/11 Feltz wouldn’t make it down the stairs if she was on the first floor
Walrus in a wig and glasses
we keep finding out about p@edos and s3x offenders after they die or are so old it must have been going on for decades, WHY???
Indeed
Well P.Diddy Epstein Weinstein got their exposure whilst alive
It’s shocking that with all that nonsense going on for decades that EVERYONE was so craven that nothing was ever done about him .
Poor man must have been a terrible ordeal
😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ha ha
Al Fayed when he took on British establishment they hated it! Suddenly when he is dead and can't speak for himself they devour making lies about him
😅😅
Full on misogynists in the comments. A sad show for men in 2024. Nothing much has changed in 100 years, and that's how you like it, eh guys?
Absolutely, showing on themselves.
Read some more and don’t blame you for feeling how you do.
I wonder if these women will want money, or just to be heard, I think I know which it will be!
Who owns the media?
Those glasses look like what the banana splits use to wear
Just making a bad situation worse
Bit late going after a dead man..
Anyone who stayed silent is an enabler.
So whu didnt she speak out at the time ?? She is a chicken and hiding things
Fayed, Weinstein, Trump. All the same.
Hope You Don't Mean Male!
Biden
Cosby
The monarchy, parliament
❤ Trump
Trust her to jump on the bandwagon , strange she is now declaring this after he has been dead for a couple of years
I was thinking that
I was just thinking that too. That Feltz thing jumps on any old bandwagon.
Al Fayed when he took on British establishment they hated it! He had powerful lawyers . Suddenly when he is dead and can't speak for himself they devour making lies about him
@@LittleKitty22Or Personal Trainer!
@@jeffsavage5720 Yikes! Is this what this ex husband of hers was? The man must be completely traumatized!
Sorry about Dod8 but what ? You people had the evidence and did nothing but allow this to continue.
Who would ever try it on with Vanessa frigging Feltz? I mean there's bottom of the barrel and then there's...
Exactly!
Bubbles deviere, hello bebi
I was so astonished by this news about Mohammed Al.Fayed....he appeared to be just a little old, but fantastically wealthy old chap.... HOW gullible? I'm so sorry for you, Vanessa..,( love you btw).... plus all the other victims of his predatory behaviour. Bless you all ❤🙏😥🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Your never the only one, remember the post office scandal 😢
This will no longer burden the deceased man, I suppose. At some point, there should be an end to accusations that date back so long, right? For me, it's all a bad joke. The ladies would probably like a lot of money, that should be all. I wouldn't give them one.
If Al Fayad moved on Feltz . . . . He was deeply disturbed
Obviously much worse than anyone suspected
Never seen him wear glasses.
Vanessa would have been quite safe.
Snotty😢
Well she wasn’t with handsy Harris 🦘
Please bring back Sangita
Lets have the names of the people who allowed Al Fayed to continue with his crimes against women?
That list is probably too long to compile...
After his death, it probably emboldened people to come forward. It’s very scary for anyone to tangle with the likes of him.
Same as the Saville enquiry.
You believe this orchestrated trash 🗑️ Al Fayed took on the British establishment and they cant stand that fact ! How come it's always the ones that took on the establishment that gets accused ? While those working for the BBC gets to abuse kids Nd get released?
What about Prince Andrew?
@leslie-annmills-gomez8763 he's tucked up away and living with Fergie in a nice little gaff provided by the Royals.
Convenient distraction to keep people away from watching the “ Right royal Scandal drama” of Prince Andrew
And Michael Jackson when he was alive he got let off only because the race card been called . Let's not forget he paid the people off
He is now a tv soap opera . Bit like Bundy.
@@EMEL-hr4ut living a better life than bundy
Sounds like he was a narcissist.
Billionaire....never
Name the ex detectives who enabled him. They should be brought to justice as well.
This could be some ploy for some business man to turn Harrods into yet another glass house flat scape.
Didnt know Vanessa was on LBC? Last tim i saw her she was on Talk.
Pushed out.
Sacked by Talk, then very quickly picked up by LBC when a weekend slot opened up after the then incumbent asked questions of Avi Hyman, an Israeli gov representative, about Israel's bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria.
So quickly, in fact, that the LBC UA-cam team didn't even have time to learn to spell her name. Search UA-cam for "Vannessa Feltz vs Ex-labour Adviser: Does Sadiq Khan Deserve to Be London Mayor Again?"
Regarding his racism, I worked for years for display companies that specialised in window mannequins. I worked many times on Harrods windows and only when Al Fayed took over were we aware of an edict that no black mannequins must ever be in the windows. Even when they had a Christmas window scheme one year where each window was dedicated to a different country there was an African window (yes I know it’s a country not a continent🤷🏼♀️), but we had to use pale coffee coloured mannequins to represent ‘Africa’. Crazy and repulsive.
This is like Jimmy Saville. Would have been more useful when he was alive.
Now that he is dead and can't defend himself, all these allegations are coming out 😅
Yeah, why didn't they do it when he was alive and could defend himself with his vast fortune, political connections and fleet of lawyers?
@@HeartyArtie not to mention his team of ex met police security with links still to the met.
It didn’t bother her that much she couldn’t be bothered to say anything til now! What’s she after - attention by suddenly thinking it was a problem?
She's a liar. An outrageous liar.
Omg she jumps on the bandwagon every time
Dead man cannot defend themselves
He can come back as a ghost 👻
Nor can their feelings be hurt.
Al Fayed when he took on British establishment they hated it! Suddenly when he is dead and can't speak for himself they devour making lies about him
Stay off the incel sites
Nor bring libel cases.
Why was not a complaininty when he was alive than attacking when he longer defend himself.
😂😂😂😂😂
Is it me or has anyone else reduced the amount of hours that they listen to LBC this women on Saturday afternoons...Farage being given the VIP treatment on Nik's show earlier on in the week..
I have to ask why now that he has passed. 🧐
No one made a move on her...EVER !!!!!!
Her hubby did ...he moved out 😂😂
@@jillianmalak5743 He was after her money - but even he couldn't stand it any more to be anywhere near her.
She's isnt saying he made a move she's saying she was clearly not interested and he didn't back off which is harassment. The problem is men like you and him don't understand the difference.
@@Holidayhome-spain At 7:10 she CLEARLY says he came on to her....!!! I think it is wishful thinking on her part, there is no way anyone would some of that !!!!
@@LittleKitty22 😂😂😂
I managed to "walkaway". Bull,..... Vanessa got feltz
Thats one problem Feltz doesn't have,fighting off men
And Carbs
joe are you saying she hasn't aged well ?
@@NnNn-yr7mu
Like a cream cake left in a hot car
Why the **** wait till he’s dead?!?!?!?!
Its very disturbing why this happens. He cannot defend himself.
@@64endlesslove I mean they should have got that monster when he was still alive so he could have been tried and locked up. It’s like Jimmy Saville!
He's been dead for more than a year. He terrorized them to such an extent (not only threatening them but their families as well) that they didn't dare tell of their experiences.
Too late now
@@liemirno not that at all. If he's in the dock he'll sing like a canary about the whole establishment
Absolute bull
The fact that he is from a particular culture has absolutely NOTHING to do with it 😂😂😂
Well what about weinstein and Prince Andrew and countless others???
These people are in every culture, stop making it a culture thing
@siddiqah89 Educate yourself. Certain cultures are far more misogynistic than others and disrespectful of women's free choice.
@terike9738 absolutely nothing eh! He was the wrong culture
What is the reference to "Glouchester" on your screen above " Henry Porter" " "Glouchester" above his photo? Don't tell me?!
She is lying
Is it all opinion and hearsay? Is there ANY evidence?
40!? Like she was 16 or something 🤦♂️
Allegedly I heard rumour from agency staff that certain staff members were sent to the stock room and do stock takes. On days al fayed would visit the white and black halls. And if he saw a black member of staff would be heard shouting ‘gets the monkeys off the floor’. It’s more to do with the senior managers and the al Thani under writing Harrods for years allowing the front man. And Harrods is the same place….
Total nonsense. I worked at Harrods for 27 years and he was always phenomenal! They want to cashin now that he is dead and can't speak 🗣️ for himself
@@theancientsancients1769yeah right that’s why they went to the police on numerous occasions an were dismissed
Yes. Brown or black staff were sometimes told to take early lunch when he was doing his rounds.
Jackson had to go white to fool him
And what about Diana she turned a blind eye I just read that she knew about fayed in the 90s
Is anyone surprised?
He must have been desperate to go for Vanessa