Model and daughter of Paul Gascoigne says former Harrods owner attacked her when she was 16 and working at store
The 37-year-old daughter of the England footballer Paul Gascoigne said she had not spoken out before because of “embarrassment and shame”.
Gascoigne started to work at Harrods aged 16 and she claimed that on one evening Fayed offered her the opportunity to stay in Harrods’ Park Lane apartment before a work flight. “I don’t know how but I managed to wiggle away. I think possibly that him knowing my parents … I don’t know, that might have saved me at that moment, but it was horrific.Asked why she had not spoken out earlier about Fayed, who died last year at the age of 93, Gascoigne said: “I was just trying to deal with what I was dealing with, what was going on, because it was just so horrific – and I just didn’t want to lose my job at that point.
Dean Armstrong KC, Bruce Drummond and Maria Mulla, the lawyers representing the Justice for Harrods Survivors group, said Gascoigne’s experience fitted a pattern of behaviour behind Fayed’s alleged abuse.
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