Mohamed Al-Fayed, billionaire ex-owner of Harrods who feuded with royal family, dead at 94

[beschizza]

Originally published at: Mohamed Al-Fayed, billionaire ex-owner of Harrods who feuded with royal family, dead at 94 | Boing Boing

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[theophrastus]

“Harrods is my pyramid,” he declared in 2004, then sold it to the Qatari royal family for more than a billion pounds.

At least tell us that his tombstone will be a (very tasteful!) pyramid shaped mausoleum (with Anubis attending) …?

apparently it is - some-what …sort’ve more a pergola pyramid-ish

[Tsu_Dho_Nimh]

And uncle by marriage of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

[FGD135]

@theophrastus

a pergola

Not in my jurisdiction, lady!

[the_borderer]

How can you forget about his statue of Michael Jackson, which was outside Craven Cottage and confused football fans for a few years.

When Fulham unveiled a statue… of Michael Jackson

Lots of football teams have statues of their club legends, but Michael only went to watch one Fulham game.

[fazalmajid]

Tiny Rowland, his unlucky rival for the purchase of Harrods, had self-published a pamphlet titled “A Hero from Zero” purporting to show Al Fayed had embezzled money from Haiti, and later wormed his way into the confidence of the Sultan of Brunei, finagled a power of attorney and used that to buy Harrods.

Also, fun fact: Dodi al-Fayed was one of the producers of Chariots of Fire.

[Purplecat]

I expect the next edition of Private Eye will be suitably scathing. They had a long-running feud with Fayed, who never liked their critical coverage of him and his business interests- he hated them so much that he brought out a rival magazine for about a decade, trying to undermine their circulation.

[nosaj]

Ha! Even my browser auto-translate struggles with AmtDeutsch. I don’t feel so alone.

[anon33932455]

And brother-in-law of arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.