Egyptian film producer and partner of Princess Diana of Wales"Dodi Al Fayed" redirects here. Not to be confused with the Indonesian footballer Dody Alfayed.

Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Mena'em Fayed (/faɪˈɛd/; Arabic: عماد الدين محمد عبد المنعم الفايد, romanized::ʿImād ad-Dīn Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Munʿim al-Fāyid , 17 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. He was the romantic partner of Diana, Princess of Wales, when they both died in a car crash in Paris, France on 31 August 1997.

Contents

• 1 Early life and career
• 2 Personal life
• 3 Death
• 4 Legacy
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Early life and career

Fayed was born in Alexandria and was the eldest son of the Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed, former owner of Harrods department store. He was the half-brother of Omar, Camilla, Karim and Jasmine Fayed. Dodi's father was also the former owner of Fulham Football Club and the Hôtel Ritz Paris. Dodi's mother was the Saudi Arabian author Samira Khashoggi, the daughter of Muhammad Khashoggi and the niece of the Saudi billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.

Fayed was a student at Collège Saint Marc before attending the Ins*ut Le Rosey in Switzerland. He also briefly attended Sandhurst. After completing his education, he served as an attaché at the United Arab Emirates Emb*y in London. Fayed was the first cousin of the late Washington Post Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, who was **inated in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey in 2018.

Fayed was the executive producer of the films Chariots of Fire, Breaking Gl*, F/X, F/X2, Hook, and The Scarlet Letter. He also served as the executive creative consultant for the F/X: The Series television series. Fayed also worked for his father on Harrods' marketing.

Personal life

In 1986, Fayed married model Suzanne Gregard, but the couple divorced after only eight months of marriage.

In July 1997, Fayed became romantically involved with Diana, Princess of Wales. Earlier that summer, Fayed had become engaged to an American model, Kelly Fisher, and had bought a house in Malibu, California, for himself and Fisher with money from his father. Fisher subsequently claimed Fayed had jilted her for Diana and announced that she was filing a breach of contract suit against him, claiming that he had "led her emotionally all the way up to the altar and abandoned her when they were almost there. He threw her love away in a callous way with no regard for her whatsoever". She dropped the lawsuit shortly after Fayed's death.

Death

Innocent Victims, one of two memorials in Harrods

In the early hours of 31 August 1997, Diana and Fayed died in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma underp*, in Paris. They had stopped in Paris en route to London, after having spent nine days together on holiday in the French and Italian Rivieras aboard his family's yacht, the Jonikal. Neither Fayed nor Diana was wearing a seat belt.

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's father, Mohamed Al-Fayed, has claimed that the couple "were executed by MI6 agents". Fayed's former spokesman, Michael Cole, has claimed that the couple had become engaged before their deaths.

Fayed was originally interred in Brookwood Cemetery near Woking, Surrey, but was disinterred and re-interred on the grounds of the Fayed estate in Oxted, Surrey, in October 1997.

Legacy

Memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed in Harrods

Fayed's father erected two memorials to his son and Diana at Harrods. The first, unveiled on 12 April 1998, consists of photos of the two behind a pyramid-shaped display that holds a wine gl* still smudged with lipstick from Diana's last dinner, as well as a ring Fayed purchased the day before they died. The second, unveiled in 2005 and *led Innocent Victims, is a 3-metre (10') high bronze statue of the two dancing on a beach, beneath the wings of an albatross.

The memorials were designed by 80-year-old Bill Mitchell, a close friend of Dodi's father and architect for Harrods for more than 40 years. In January 2018, it was announced that the statue would be returned to the Al-Fayed family.

See also

• Egypt portal
• Biography portal

• Operation Paget

References

External links

• Dodi Fayed at IMDb

Life events

• Wedding
  • guest list
• Squidgygate
• Panorama interview

Fashion

• Wedding dress
• Jewels
• Travolta dress
• Revenge dress
• Lady Dior
• Gucci Diana

Charities

• International Campaign to Ban Landmines
• Landmine Survivors Network
• Barnardo's
• Centrepoint
• Turning Point
• National AIDS Trust
• The Leprosy Mission
• English National Ballet
• The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
• Great Ormond Street Hospital

DeathMemorials

• "Candle in the Wind"
• Concert for Diana
• Diana Award
• Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain
• Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund
• Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital
• Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Playground
• Diana, Princess of Wales: Tribute
• Diana, Princess of Wales Tribute Concert
• Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Walk
• Innocent Victims
• Place Diana
  • Flame of Liberty
• Princess Diana Memorial
• Princess of Wales Bridge
• Princess of Wales Theatre
• Rosa 'Diana, Princess of Wales'
• Rosa 'Princess of Wales'
• Statue of Diana, Princess of Wales
• West Heath School

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