Mohamed Al Fayed’s son Omar says he is ‘horrified’ at rape and sex attack allegations against his late billionaire father that have ‘thrown into question, the loving memory I had of him’

Mohamed Al Fayed’s son Omar has spoken out on the rape allegations against his father, saying he is ‘horrified’.

Omar Fayed, 36, said the extent of the numerous claims ‘has thrown into question the loving memory I had of him’.

He previously made a spirited defence of his father, dismissing the allegations that he raped five of his young women staff as ‘completely outrageous’. 

But today he said: ‘I am horrified and deeply concerned by the allegations recently brought to light against my late father.

‘The extent and explicit nature of the allegations are shocking and has thrown into question, the loving memory I had of him.

Omar Fayed and his father Mohammed Al Fayed pictured together in 2007

‘How this matter could have been concealed for so long and in so many ways, raises further disturbing questions.’

He said that he loved his father ‘very much’ and he was a ‘wonderful dad’.

But he added ‘that aspect of our relationship… does not blind me from an objective assessment of circumstances’.

He said he stood ‘unequivocally in support of any legitimate investigation into these allegations.

‘The alleged victims and public deserve full transparency and accountability.’

‘I will continue to support the principles of truth, justice, accountability, and fairness, regardless of where that journey may lead. No one is above the law.’

Omar, the youngest of Fayed’s four children with his second wife, Finnish model Heini Wathen, previously conceded that his father was an ‘old-school chauvinist’.

He told friends: ‘Perhaps he was like an older version of Donald Trump.’

But he said previously that ‘the allegations of rape are completely outrageous’.