![]() ![]() "Mohamed Al-Fayed buried next to son on family estate almost 26 years after Dodi died in car crash with Princess Diana". In January 2018, it was announced that the statue would be returned to the Al-Fayed family. The memorials were designed by Bill Mitchell, a close friend of Dodi's father and architect for Harrods for more than 40 years. The second, unveiled in 2005 and titled Innocent Victims, is a 3 metres (9 feet 10 inches) high bronze statue of the two dancing on a beach, beneath the wings of an albatross. The first, unveiled on 12 April 1998, consists of photos of them behind a pyramid-shaped display containing a wine glass still smudged with lipstick from Diana's final dinner, and a ring Fayed purchased the day before they died. Legacy Memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed in Harrodsįayed's father erected two memorials to his son and Diana at Harrods. įayed was originally interred in Brookwood Cemetery near Woking, Surrey, but was re-interred on the grounds of the Fayed estate in Oxted, Surrey, in October 1997. Fayed's former spokesman, Michael Cole, has said that the couple became engaged before their deaths. Fayed's father, Mohamed Al-Fayed, has said that the couple "were executed by MI6 agents". Investigations by French and British police concluded that their chauffeur, Henri Paul, was driving under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs paparazzi chasing the couple are also believed to have contributed to the accident. Fayed was pronounced dead at the scene on removal from the wreckage. The only survivor of the crash was bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, who was seriously injured but was conscious after the crash. They had stopped in Paris en route to London after spending nine days on holiday in the French and Italian Rivieras aboard his family's yacht, the Jonikal. ![]() In the early hours of 31 August 1997, Diana and Fayed died in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma underpass in Paris. Death Innocent Victims, one of two memorials in Harrods She dropped the lawsuit shortly after Fayed's death. Fisher subsequently said Fayed jilted her for Diana and announced that she was filing a breach of contract suit against him, saying he had "led her emotionally all the way up to the altar and abandoned her when they were almost there," and that he "threw her love away in a callous way with no regard for her whatsoever". Earlier that summer, he was engaged to American model Kelly Fisher and bought a house in Malibu, California, for himself and Fisher, with money from his father. In July 1997, Fayed became romantically involved with Diana, Princess of Wales, entertaining her on his yacht Cujo. Īccording to her memoir, Babylon Confidential, Claudia Christian had an on-again, off-again romance with Fayed. In 1986, Fayed married model Suzanne Gregard. He also worked for his father on Harrods' marketing. Through his family's production company, Allied Stars, Fayed was executive producer of the films Chariots of Fire, Breaking Glass, F/X, F/X2, Hook, and The Scarlet Letter, and executive creative consultant for F/X: The Series. He was a first cousin of the late Washington Post Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was assassinated in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in 2018. ![]() ![]() After completing his education, he was an attaché at the United Arab Emirates Embassy in London. He also briefly attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. įayed was a student at Collège Saint Marc before attending the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. Dodi's mother was Saudi Arabian author Samira Khashoggi (1935–1986), daughter of Muhammad Khashoggi and sister of Saudi billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. Dodi's father was also the former owner of Fulham Football Club and the Hôtel Ritz Paris. He was the half-brother of Omar Fayed, Camilla, Karim, and Jasmine Fayed. He was the romantic partner of Diana, Princess of Wales, when they both died in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997.įayed was born in Alexandria and was the eldest son of Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed (1929–2023), the former owner of Harrods department store. Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Mena'em Fayed ( / f aɪ ˈ ɛ d/ Egyptian Arabic: عماد الدين محمد عبد المنعم الفايد, romanized: ʿImād ed-Dīn Muḥammad ʿAbd el-Munʿim el-Fāyid, 15 April 1955 – 31 August 1997), better known as Dodi Fayed ( Arabic: دودى الفايد ), was an Egyptian film producer and the son of billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed. ![]()
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