Keaton Stone discusses how he exposed allegations of sexual assault against Mohamed Al Fayed after his fiancée, Sophia, revealed she had been groomed and assaulted while working as his assistant. Stone spent years collecting evidence from other victims worldwide, which led to a documentary exposing the Harrods billionaire's alleged crimes. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00So I started looking into this whole story in 2018 when my fiancée at the time was exploring
00:09potentially other career options or work and I offered to give her her CV a bit of a spruce.
00:18I saw right at the bottom a very vague reference to Harrods with no more information which seemed
00:24bizarre to me seeing as other temporary jobs even had bullet points and more information.
00:29So that struck me as a bit weird because I thought that's something we should be making
00:33more about. I asked her, she was reticent to tell me any more but I said well it's to help your CV
00:40and slowly it came out that she was the PA to the chairman. I didn't really think much about it,
00:47I went off and you know judged her CV as it were and it occurred to me whilst I was doing that,
00:53hold on the chairman of Harrods then, that's Mohamed Al-Fayed, that's amazing, wow, you know,
00:58nothing bad about him that I thought. So I then proudly presented that to her with right at the
01:06top of the CV in the cover note but you know all singing all dancing I was the personal assistant
01:12to Mohamed Al-Fayed, the former chairman of the world's most prestigious store Harrods. I thought
01:18she'd be delighted with this and her reaction was the exact opposite, she completely broke down
01:23in hysterics and crying and shaking asking me why have I got his name on there, get him off,
01:28get him off, get him off and clearly from that, that was the genesis moment where something is
01:34very very wrong here and that just set me off and the blinkers went on and I just dove down
01:39the rabbit hole. During the course of my investigation, I mean well over 100 women I
01:44spoke to, not everyone was at that time willing to come forward understandably, many were still
01:50terrified of him, he was alive for a lot of that time still and even in his 90s people
01:55were terrified of his power and his reach influence.