The larger-than-life ex-Harrods owner, who has died aged 94, was never far from the headlines or controversy but was an indomitably bold figure
was owned by Tiny Rowland, head of the Lonrho corporation, which lost out to Fayed in its bid to take control of. Rowland was convinced the Egyptian-born businessman had used the sultan of Brunei’s money to fund his purchase of House of Fraser.
The key outcome, however, was that although the report found Fayed had lied, the “phoney pharaoh”, as he was rather dubiously labelled, managed to hold on to Harrods and it was theNot for the first or last time, Fayed demonstrated the cost of underestimating him. He went into business with his brothers Ali and Salah and in 1954 married Samira Khashoggi, sister of the Saudi arms dealer and businessman Adnan Khashoggi, for whom Fayed began working.
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